My first time I came in contact with an Army recruiter I was
ten years old and from then I realized what I wanted to do. In my mind I wanted
to do what the army soldiers do every day and have the benefits they get while
doing their job or jobs. Starting at age fifteen I was able to physically go in
and talk to the recruiters about my future in the armed services. At talking
for hours and going up there a couple days a week I knew this is what I wanted
to do with my life and indefinably make this a career job which would last from
a minimum of twenty years all the way to thirty or more years. After almost two
years I made my dream a reality because two days before my seventeenth birthday
my recruiter Sergeant Michael Banks of the US Army came to my house with the
paper work and after a thirty minute process I was ready to go down to the
Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS). The process took three days due to
a delay during one of the days because they lost my information but it was
worth it to be down in Sacramento and later be enlisted into the delayed entry
program.