twinline77
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Hello Everyone,
My name is Dan and I currently work as a Strength and Conditioning Coach. I was previously in the U.S. Coast Guard for 6 years active duty (2004-2010) and 1 year active reserve (drilling 2010-2011).
Currently I am in the process of reenlisting into the U.S. Air Force to go Combat Control.
While in the Coast Guard I was very unfulfilled with my job (I was a Damage Controlman) The way the Coast Guard was operating DCs were basically working as maintenance guys. For 5 years I unclogged toilets, repaired holes in drywall and did various other "home repair" tasks on base housing. Not really what I enlisted to do.
I got out in 2010 and kept thinking that I didn't really "serve" in the capacity I wanted to. I was basically a janitor...
This bugged me for the past few years and I kept thinking that I missed my shot to serve and help protect this country.
I missed the bond and the brotherhood that I had in the military but I didn't want to go back to that same line of work. If I went back I was going to serve in a capacity that mattered.
So for well over a year now I have been researching all the branches and I settled onto the Air Force. I knew I wanted to do Combat Control when watching some of the videos on the training and the job. Every time I saw a video I got excited/nervous and this feeling of "holy shit that looks hard"... but I can do that.
I would show some of my friends the videos and their response was along the lines of "holy shit that is cool, and looks hard, I would never do that." I would talk to them about it and it was completely out of their scope of reality to ever do something like that. I couldn't understand how they felt that way.
Then I realized that not everyone has this desire to serve or even appreciates everything we have in the US. They don't really care, they just assume they will always have it.
I made the decision that if I am ready, willing and able then I need to step up and go. Because not everyone has that mindset and if I don't who will?
Sorry for that long intro hopes its ok.
O I forgot....I registered for this site so that I could browse and read through the forums as I learn all I can about the job SOF in general. Just another tool in the toolbox you could say.
Thanks for everything you guys do!
My name is Dan and I currently work as a Strength and Conditioning Coach. I was previously in the U.S. Coast Guard for 6 years active duty (2004-2010) and 1 year active reserve (drilling 2010-2011).
Currently I am in the process of reenlisting into the U.S. Air Force to go Combat Control.
While in the Coast Guard I was very unfulfilled with my job (I was a Damage Controlman) The way the Coast Guard was operating DCs were basically working as maintenance guys. For 5 years I unclogged toilets, repaired holes in drywall and did various other "home repair" tasks on base housing. Not really what I enlisted to do.
I got out in 2010 and kept thinking that I didn't really "serve" in the capacity I wanted to. I was basically a janitor...
This bugged me for the past few years and I kept thinking that I missed my shot to serve and help protect this country.
I missed the bond and the brotherhood that I had in the military but I didn't want to go back to that same line of work. If I went back I was going to serve in a capacity that mattered.
So for well over a year now I have been researching all the branches and I settled onto the Air Force. I knew I wanted to do Combat Control when watching some of the videos on the training and the job. Every time I saw a video I got excited/nervous and this feeling of "holy shit that looks hard"... but I can do that.
I would show some of my friends the videos and their response was along the lines of "holy shit that is cool, and looks hard, I would never do that." I would talk to them about it and it was completely out of their scope of reality to ever do something like that. I couldn't understand how they felt that way.
Then I realized that not everyone has this desire to serve or even appreciates everything we have in the US. They don't really care, they just assume they will always have it.
I made the decision that if I am ready, willing and able then I need to step up and go. Because not everyone has that mindset and if I don't who will?
Sorry for that long intro hopes its ok.
O I forgot....I registered for this site so that I could browse and read through the forums as I learn all I can about the job SOF in general. Just another tool in the toolbox you could say.
Thanks for everything you guys do!