Personal Narrative: The Day I Joined The Army

In the year 1985 and I had just joined the army. I was only 15 at this time and was wanting to serve my country even if it meant i'd never see my family again. For 17 years I lived and served and in the year 2000 I married the love of my life Helen Salenko. But now i’m getting off topic, let's go back to when I first enrolled I thought it would be easy and rewarding but I was so very wrong. We were worked how hardest to get in shape we would run until we couldn't feel our legs anymore and then we would run some more and when training was done they would put us on the battlefield. The battlefield was the hardest thing we had to overcome because of the fact you would watch people who you respected lose their lives for something we haven't yet achieved and maybe never will. My good buddy Cameron once told me if you can climb a hill you can climb a mountain that saying is …show more content…
This was this man's mistake because in the middle of the night he woke up to a huge python eating his arm, luckily we had flashlights and knives because we had to cut the snake off his arm without cutting his arm. This was very difficult because you couldn’t be sure of where the skin of the snake ended, but we somehow managed to get the snake off without cutting his arm which is a miracle. We decided that throwing away the snake was a waste of food so we kept it until the next night for dinner instead of the gross MRE food packages. We couldn’t cook the snake because if we started a fire we would have given up our position so we cleaned it in the stream and ate it raw, this wasn't a good idea because some of our men got spirometra and unfortunately about 3 died. Later that day we went to a huge oak tree by the steam and gave the men a proper burial and sent word to their