jride200
Member
I couldn't dream up a better story, even had I wanted to...
I report to Newport in no more than two weeks with the October 20th class. My designator, a lifelong dream, is SNA. As some of you know, this has been a long, long time coming for me. It has required my persistence and my heart. To get here, I've overcome both a painful divorce and a potentially career-ending shoulder injury.
This past Friday, I attended a benefit event for my uncle along with several hundred other people. My uncle was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. Not but months before his diagnosis, he lost his job and, importantly, his health insurance. At this event, family members, friends of the family, and others donated gifts to be raffled. I pulled out the only ten wadded dollars I had in my pocket, bought some tickets, and put them in a manila envelope bulging with other people's tickets. I believe it was by far the most popular prize available, and I, of all people, won it...What did I win might you ask?
As a perfect send-off for the demands ahead of me, and in my final days at home, I won flight time in a Navy Stearman biplane. I am extremely excited, as are my uncle and the rest of my family. Whatever shreds of doubt I had racing through my head regarding my chosen career path are now completely, utterly, gone. Living the dream, as so many in NA say, right? Its now beginning...
I report to Newport in no more than two weeks with the October 20th class. My designator, a lifelong dream, is SNA. As some of you know, this has been a long, long time coming for me. It has required my persistence and my heart. To get here, I've overcome both a painful divorce and a potentially career-ending shoulder injury.
This past Friday, I attended a benefit event for my uncle along with several hundred other people. My uncle was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. Not but months before his diagnosis, he lost his job and, importantly, his health insurance. At this event, family members, friends of the family, and others donated gifts to be raffled. I pulled out the only ten wadded dollars I had in my pocket, bought some tickets, and put them in a manila envelope bulging with other people's tickets. I believe it was by far the most popular prize available, and I, of all people, won it...What did I win might you ask?
As a perfect send-off for the demands ahead of me, and in my final days at home, I won flight time in a Navy Stearman biplane. I am extremely excited, as are my uncle and the rest of my family. Whatever shreds of doubt I had racing through my head regarding my chosen career path are now completely, utterly, gone. Living the dream, as so many in NA say, right? Its now beginning...
