Personal Narrative Essay: Joining The Army

I never really knew what exactly I wanted to be when I was growing up. I could never decide between a flight attendant or a doctor. I always knew that I wanted to help someone or everyone even if it was putting others before myself. When I was 18 I was required to sign up to be drafted for the military. I had a choice to legally avoid being drafted or not and I could even just go into the military myself without having to be drafted. {After a couple years of thinking about this I decided that going into the military would be the best way to put others before myself while I was also helping them.} {Call to Adventure}

Before I could join the military I had to go through some kind of army training to help me prepare myself. {On November 7th, 2015 I left my fiance, my mother and father, my grandparents and all my friends to …show more content…
When I got to South Korea there was not one person that I knew but I knew that that's not what I was there for. For many nights I got no sleep, I was missing home so much that I …show more content…
We sat there doing nothing for many days and finally we were able to get on the flight and go back to Korea to finish our 5 months of training that we had left to finish. After I got back to Camp Kasey I realized that this was no joke, that I needed to {push myself above and beyond to better myself as a soldier.} {Rescue from Without} After training was finished I got to go back to my family for two months before I was stationed in North Carolina and I always {told my family to always push themselves harder and it would always pay off in the long run.} {The Crossing or Return