Personal Narrative: What I Would Have Done Different

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What I Would Have Done Different on April 29, 2016.

On April 29, 2016 I made a cycle of bad decisions that could of ended my career. Instead of thinking about the team I made a lot of rational decisions on what I wanted instead of thinking of how it could of affected the people around me. With that being said, what would I have done different on April 29, 2016? I would have done a number of countless things to not end up in the situation that I put myself and my chain of command in a bind and cause them more work than they already have. It all started on the Wednesday before April 29, 2016 the skipper had told us that we were getting that Friday off. I had made the decision to go to Tennessee to get my car knowing that it was out of bounds,

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