Posted on Jun 28, 2014
At what moment did you know that this profession would be a career?
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I have had this discussion with many of my Army buddies and gotten a variety of interesting responses. For a small number it was their chosen career from the first time they raised their right hand. For others, like me, it was gradual; the Army kept offering something too good to pass up, so you kept signing on the dotted line until you were suddenly a career Soldier and couldn't imagine doing anything else. I have met a few that made the leap after 9/11 and have been in ever since. So what is your story? When did you realize you were in it for the long haul?
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I would have to say I was a little knuckle head when i first came in the Army. I guess it was when I got married and new that it was more then just me i had to take care of. And one of the best 1SG (R) I ever had and the greatest mentor i ever had and still talk to to this day he had a part in it to.
I knew from the time I was 5-years old that I would be a Soldier and that it would be my chosen career.
SFC Istvan Nagy
As young boy I wanted to be a cowboy or a soldier. When I arrived to the United States in 1977 I didn't see any cowboys running around as I imagined and saw in the movies, so I decided to be a soldier. Oh, and when I arrived my Uncle was in the Army and Stationed at Ft Knox, KY, that may have something to do with it too.
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