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- Not only do you have to have the confidence

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and you know, drive and determination, those things,

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you have to be a go-getter, you have to wake up feeling

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like, "I'm gonna make the best of today."

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I joined the Air Force to follow in my father's footsteps.

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You know there was just something about the way

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he lived his life, he was very professional

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and there was just something admirable about that

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and I really wanted to just kind of emulate that.

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And you know I learned a lot, a lot about myself.

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And I learned to become an adult.

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I learned responsibility.

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I learned organization.

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I learned what I wanted to achieve in life

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and I wanted to feel success,

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that's what the Air Force taught me.

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I was in C. E., I was in Heating and Air Conditioning.

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I was fortunate enough to move around quite a bit,

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you know I went to Las Vegas, Alaska, Korea, Japan,

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Colorado Springs, and Kyrgyzstan.

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So, visiting all of those places was awesome.

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I mean, the experience alone and it was great,

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it was surreal.

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I mean, who else is doing that?

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And where else can you do that,

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unless you're in a job like that?

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Whether you're in the Navy, the Marines,

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the Army, or the Air Force.

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I've been tattooing 14 years now

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and I started when I was in the Service.

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After work, I'd get off and tattoo some buddies.

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You know, I'm using all those skills every day.

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I feel like my experience and my time served

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definitely helped me mature as a person, as an adult,

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as a human being,

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and you know, I have fond memories

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of my experience in the Air Force.

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And I feel like all those things helped shape

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and mold who I am.

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