How would you critique my essay entitled "Why I want to be an officer"?
I have always had a desire to serve and be a part of something bigger than myself. This was true when I first enlisted in the Army, with my current civilian job working for the Department of Energy on a Special Response Team, and my desire to become an officer now. An officer in the Army must not only be able to command and lead those below him/her, but develop policies and procedures that would make it easier for others to command those below them.
As an enlisted soldier I made the rank of SGT in under 2 and a half years. I have no doubt that I would have had a successful career as an enlisted soldier, if I continued down that path. The biggest thing that was holding me back is that I knew that I could do so much more for the Army as an officer versus enlisted. I will always cherish my time as an NCO though, and would not change that experience for anything. After graduating summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in Homeland Security and Emergency Management, the path to an officer commission started to form.
I know as an Army officer I will be an exemplary model for the NCOs, junior enlisted, and peer officers that I work with. I will show them that they can always strive to do more and be better than they were yesterday. There is no such thing as perfection, but with the right motivation I will show my fellow soldiers that they can achieve even more than they imagined. There will be different opportunities and challenges along the way, but I have never shied away from difficult situations. With the example I set as an officer, and the leadership that I bring to the unit, I will ensure mission readiness and troop welfare are at the forefront. In doing so, I will also help the overall mission of the Army.
With my prior enlisted experience, degree in emergency management, and over 11 years with a special response team, I know I will excel as an Army officer. No matter what branch that I may end up in I will bring with me, a strong work ethic, a strive to make those around me and myself better, honor and integrity. In the end, I am not looking to become an officer for what it can do for me, but what I can do for the Army. When the unit and people under my command succeed at their mission and raise the bar for the next soldiers that come along, that will be my reward.
Look at their PhD programs in boomed sciences, hose can be done by warrant, commissioned, and civil service, there's a specific page for their them, just search for USUHS doctoral programs....
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The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) is a graduate school and provider of professional and continuing education for the United States Armed Forces and is part of the United States Air Force. It is located in Ohio at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton. AFIT is a component of the Air University and Air Education and Training Command.
Look at this, I might've already sent it...it doesn't include Army WOCS, NOAA BOTC which is an OIS, there's also an AMEDD OIS I'd read about, I can't recall the na!e at the moment, I'm unsure if it takes Army MSC, however UEPHS also sends to their OIS orograms, and incls sending to USCG...would the ideal of hlth info mgmt (HIM) appeal to you at all in any svc in their clinical side? As I'd said, I realize it might not be what you'd wanted however, it'd at least be a way...then, too, look at AGR, Guard Tech, and Rwserve Tech, hose full time support programs, the ARNG has hose state level part time OCS programs, ANG I think uses USAF OTS, I'm unsure if ANG has part time OCS type programs, I'd read ARNG does for sure, though I didn't know if you might want to try for that. Next, also, ha e you done any actual FAA flight training? Sport pilot? Private pilot? Instrument raring? Multiengine? Commercial? Rotary wing as opposed to fixed wing? Have you tried to make use of any mil aero clubs at all? How about Civil Air Patrol (CAP) senior squadron flight training, I don't know if it exists, I know it does for kids as cadets, however, CAP has its own corporate aircraft, so you might ask...then, too, USCG Auxiliary APIs an instrumentality of the USCG, whereas CAP isn't for the USAF, though both get tasked with missions...USCG Auxiliary has an observer program for its aviation flotillas, I've looked at those myself, my disability keeps getting in th e wah, though...
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In the end it's my own fault for waiting so long.