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I am a 22 year old college senior, enlisted in the FutureSoldier program for the 18x pipeline. My degrees will be in history and political science, and I graduate in May. I joined up for a series of moral reasons, after long consideration, and chose SF because it is the highest level of training it is possible for an enlistee to attain - though recruiters often have conflicting answers for different things, the answers were entirely unanimous on that score.
I have long believed myself capable of many things. I have chosen to seek out proof of those capabilities, or reveal their lack. No test could be more thorough than combat service, and nothing prepares you better for it than training to be one of the best. Besides, I am confronting a challenge now that, for the first time, I might not be man enough to accomplish. A powerful motivator.
I seek to prove my value through my military service. There are only two possible destinies that await me: worthiness, or damnation.
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"He is grim and loveless, but at birth he breathes power to strive and slay into a man's soul. What else shall men ask of the gods?" - Conan the Cimmerian
The highest of all moral qualities in time of danger is certainly courage. - Carl Von Clausewitz
If all a man achieves in his life is a worthy death, then it has not been a wasted life.
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