Why I Joined Jrotc

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Why I joined JROTC- Essay JROTC has made a major impact in my first and now second year of high school. It has keep me motivaded and dedicated to do well in my company and in all my other classes. I joined JROTC because I like the discipline, wearing a uniform beside the school polo’s, and I wanted to be part of a team. My other reason I join Jrotc is because I want to be in the military. Just like my uncle and my dad’s cousin. My love with the military started at a very young age where I was in love with playing with toy soldiers and then later video games made the love grow even more. But one day in 8th grade I was called into the counselor’s office and when I was about to leave I saw a brochure about the Miami Senior High JROTC Battalion. I took one and I went home that day and looked up information about the JROTC program. I loved every detail about it so that’s what I choose when I was picking my electives for my first year of high school. My true inspiration was my uncle and my dad’s cousin who were both in the United States Marine Corps. My uncle (my mom’s brother) was in the Marine Corps as a private first class but was demoted down to private after shooting a firework at a barn that then got on fire. He died on October 23, 1983 in The Beirut Barracks Bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. What inspiring me about him was that he was in the 1st Marine Recon, my mother would tell me great stories about him, and his medal which is the Purple Heart. My dad’s cousin is right now stationed in Washington D.C. and he is a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps when he comes down to Miami to visit the first thing he dose is bring us a present. He also shows us picture of him on duty in Iran. He went to the Citable military collage in South Carolina for 4 years and I want to do the same thing. Between school and home JROTC gave me something to do after school. I join the
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