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funny

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thing is I did not originally , I want

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to be to see a specialist . I just

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wanted to join the Air Force to better

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my life overall . And the recruiter

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told me about how I would be rescuing

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people , helping them out a little did

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I know that it would be an instructor

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whenever I first started and I fell in

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love with the career field , really did .

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Uh training was not what I expected

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either . Um I thought it was a regular

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Air Force job when I got handed an

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accident backpack and I was a little

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concerned about what it was . Um but as

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soon as college , I started teaching me

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how to use that and I started going

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through the course in our tech school .

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I really did enjoy what I what I do now .

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So my original plan where I guess

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reason to join the Air Force was for

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college just because you know , my mom

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has four other kids to deal with . So I

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didn't want to be the one that had to

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pay for college . So that was my main

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reason for joining as well as my sister .

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You know , being able to know that I

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can support her as well , being older

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sister . And just to prove to her that

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you can do whatever you want to do , it

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really doesn't matter what others day

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or what maybe someone else wants you to

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do . It's it's what you want to do . So

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just kind of going after what you want .

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A lot of us go through training

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thinking that we are the weakest link

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were the ones that cadre I have to

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focus on or feel as if we're going to

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be the ones that are going to get

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washed out , right ? But after I

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certified I realize everyone struggles .

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It's huge mental and physical game that

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we have to get through . I mean we're

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not used to being low on calories that

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if you're a very fit person , you're

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used to counting your macros and you go

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through training , sure you can do the

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fitness side of it . But now you have

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to rely on teamwork , you have to rely

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on everyone around you to help you get

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those tasks done if you're fatigued .

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Like before , I didn't think I was able

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to do a lot of things that I have done

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once I joined . So I guess being in the

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career field where like you have to

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battle Peking speaking publicly and

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like the physical challenges of it just

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made it a lot more I guess appealing to

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actually see if I can do it .