Personal Narrative: My Military Experience

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My military experience refined me as an individual and made more aware of my surroundings. It’s hard to describe all I learned from the short experience. At times the lessons learned were very contradicting. What I was there to learn versus what I was searching for were things that were still not accepted. Understanding and judging people a lot quicker without using words was a concept I had to turn into a survival skill. It felt like nobody around me had the ability to do so unless they were like me. There were certain people I was supposed to be able to look up to but couldn’t because there was always a barrier. I could say that more than half of the people I met didn’t really have their heads on straight before they joined. Most of them

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