The Beginning

2011-07-05T21:36:00.000-07:00

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

Here We Go

2011-07-02T19:52:00.000-07:00

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.

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

Laying It All Down

The Beginning

Here We Go