Who Influenced You To Take The Oath And Join The Military? - Login & Share to Win!

My cousin Gene volunteered for the Army Air Corp on December 8th 1941. Before WWII was over he was a B17 bomber pilot who completed 26 missions over Germany. He stayed for 32 years. I did 24 years between the active Army and the National Guard.

My father and uncles

No one, I took it upon myself to enlist in the Army.

Letter from my draft board.

My dad was in the Army and served in Korea as a medic. He inspired me to join. Best thing I ever did and made so many great life-long friends!

Happy Sunday, everyone!

Frankly there was no who, it was a what......the Draft! Sure I was in college but if you didn't maintain decent grades you could still get drafted, I saw that happen with many high school classmates. I was a football player and didn't have to take PE so I took ROTC to make up that credit. I enjoyed that class and when I discovered I was qualified for flight training the prospect of going into the military began to become more of a goal. So I guess there were two what's since the ROTC class itself is what made me continue to get commissioned. I've posted this before but after getting commissioned in May I actually received a letter from my Draft Board in August advising me that I'd been selected.

My step-brother went into the Marine Corps. We always had an understated competition. He never said go, I just jumped.

The Vietnam War

A friend who actually did not join in the end. Since I got interested, I decided go go for it. At the beginning, I wanted to enlist but an Air Force recruiter convinced me to go instead go to college and become an officer. The rest is history.