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Joining the National Guard - College Term Paper

Joining the National Guard

The thing what has significantly influenced me was joining the National Guard. I have been in the NATIONAL GUARD for eleven years. I joined the NATIONAL GUARD 07 November 2000. I left for basic training 10 July 2001 a month after I graduated high school.
I was seventeen and a senior in high school. It was career day at school. I was walking around looking at the different options for life after high school and didn't really know what direction I wanted to go. I stopped at the NATIONAL GUARD booth and talk to the recruiter. I didn't know much about the army so he asked if he could come by my house and talk with me more in-depth about the NATIONAL GUARD. When he came to my house I didn't ...

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for life after high school. When the recruiter got the results of the test he came back out to the house. He showed me a lot of different options. I narrowed it down to three fields I wanted to look into. First was a medic. I choose this field because I had taken a first responder class in high school and really liked it. The second was Communication because he said it would help me get a good job once I got done with training. The third was Military Police only because I had a friend from high school that was going in as an MP. Now it's time to go to MEPS.
Now that I had decided what job I wanted it was time to sign the contract. Once I signed the contract I had to go to MEPS (Military Entrance Process Station). At MEPS I had to take a drug test, physical and find a unit for me to go into after I finished basic training. When I went to get put into a medic unit they told me my scores weren't high enough for that field because by the time I was going to basic training the two medic ...

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Added: 8/18/2012 01:59:11 PM
Submitted By: chickenhawk1982
Category: Personal Writing
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 999
Pages: 4

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