Personal Narrative: Growing Up In The Air Force

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Growing up I never had to be careful while playing outside, or have to worry about something bad happening. My mother was a trauma nurse in the Air Force from before I was born, up to about two and a half years ago. I grew up on Military bases which were pretty safe and were like a little communities which consisted of other families in the Air Force. By the time I was 12 years old I had lived in four different states, two different countries (including the U.S.), attended five different Elementary School’s, and two different Middle Schools. The household I was raised in consisted of a single mother, an older brother by nine years, and older sister by seven years. The Military greatly affected my life in so many ways, positively and negatively.

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