My beginning was never pictured with a Marine Corps ending. I started with the goal of joining the Air Force, however my recruiter saw my degrees and suggested that I pursue OCS. After some checking around I was sadly informed that the Air Force was not in need of someone with my particular credentials, but the other branches were in need of a gal like myself. My recruiter asked me if I had ever thought of joining the Marines, he was greeted with a resounding no! But after a less than awesome visit with the Navy recruiter and then being stood up for a meeting with the Navy, a Marine recruiter found me waiting in the empty hallway and offered an interview on the spot. I took it and the next week I was set up with the USMC OSO and I began my application journey with the Marine Corps.
My application process has been long and difficult, but already it has made me a better person. Mentally and physically I've grown while I've only been trying to get into the Marine Corps I can only imagine what the future holds.
“There is great meaning in life for those who are willing to journey.”
Jim England
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Here We Go
Well. This is me. I’m a 25 year old midwestern gal. I went to school, earned two degrees, moved home and got punched in the face by this economic situation we have going on here. Don’t get me wrong, I like my life, but I think I would like other things to be happening in it. And I guess that is where this all began.
25. Female. Not a gym rat, runner or trainer of any kind. Pretty laid back. Dream Job: Professional Traveler or Human Rights Worker.
Current Goal: Entrance into the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidate School
Purpose of Blog: Share my journey, my unlikely journey, and quest to attempt to become an officer in the USMC. Will I make it? I don’t know, but if I don’t try then I never will. If I make it awesome, and if I don’t I gave it my all and I have nothing to be ashamed of.
So this is it.
25. Female. Not a gym rat, runner or trainer of any kind. Pretty laid back. Dream Job: Professional Traveler or Human Rights Worker.
Current Goal: Entrance into the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidate School
Purpose of Blog: Share my journey, my unlikely journey, and quest to attempt to become an officer in the USMC. Will I make it? I don’t know, but if I don’t try then I never will. If I make it awesome, and if I don’t I gave it my all and I have nothing to be ashamed of.
So this is it.
| I love the Corps for those intangible possessions that cannot be issued: pride, honor, integrity, and being able to carry on the traditions for generations of warriors past. Cpl. Jeff Sornig, USMC; in Navy Times, November 1994 |
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