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Pat Tillman joined the Army after the Twin Towers fell on 9/11. He put aside his career in the NFL to honor our country. What reasons did you decide to take an oath to the United States of America?
Pat Tillman Foundation
Honor
Military History
NFL
Posted >1 y ago
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I wanted to serve my country and protect the American way of life. My main reason I joined when I did was to get away from home at seventeen years old but I was planning to join on my eighteenth birthday anyways. I just got to enlist earlier with the signature of my mother. Best decision of my life. I still carry my values that I acquired in the military with me today.
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One to serve my country, and two I was the second one in my family to serve @RallyPoint.
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Cpl Vic Burk
SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth I was second also in my family. My oldest brother was first followed by me then my next older brother.
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
Cpl Vic Burk My dad's n, next to the oldest brother was a WWII Navy veteran,he died a few years before I was born from asphixiation from natural gas. I
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I grew up next to an Air Force base (Warner Robins AFB, GA) and listened to the Air Force brats talk about the places they had been and got the travel bug.
Went to college and get my commission through ROTC with the idea that my travel dreams would come through.
My first duty station was Fort Benning, GA. I am 80 miles from home. so much for the dreams.
My next post was Korea followed up by Fort MacPherson, GA. Someone in personnel at the Pentagon must have thought I liked Georgia. After Fort MacPherson, I was overseas for the next eight years (except for my advanced course) trying to avoid Georgia.
With eleven years of active duty, eight were overseas.
Went to college and get my commission through ROTC with the idea that my travel dreams would come through.
My first duty station was Fort Benning, GA. I am 80 miles from home. so much for the dreams.
My next post was Korea followed up by Fort MacPherson, GA. Someone in personnel at the Pentagon must have thought I liked Georgia. After Fort MacPherson, I was overseas for the next eight years (except for my advanced course) trying to avoid Georgia.
With eleven years of active duty, eight were overseas.
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Maj Robert Thornton
LTC John Griscom, an airman I knew, at the base hospital at Robins AFB, joined to see the world. The young man was from Warner Robins. When he was assigned, his parents moved. Talk about irony.
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