 My proudest moment, I get chills just thinking about it, it's giving me a little bit of anger. The entire 13 weeks is not for me, it's for building them up to make the Marine. You know, their whole lives that haven't really grown wings to fly, you know, leave the coop. I love it because this is what I'm here for. I'm here to give you a product. I'm here to make a Marine. And that's, you know, that's what I put into the fleet. I don't know, it's just, I was a really big loner. My father raised me that way, like, you don't need anybody in this life to help you with anything. Sometimes you do need people, you know. Sometimes you do need somebody to, hey, good job. You know what I mean? Sometimes you do need somebody to help you through something. You know what I'm saying? So that, when I met my recruiter, when I went to that first pulley function, it was just a click. Oh, this is what I need right here, this is what I've been looking for right here, you know. How's that, Major? Oh, you look at me! It was a Saturday pull function. Sometimes we'll go have a yearly one, so we'll have the yearly female pull functions. So this year we actually had a drill instructor that came in, you know, prepared you for boot camp, you know, gives you a little taste of what you're going to experience. Scream for your life! That first moment is when you speak to them once they get them up and they get them online. We're just making corrections, blasting them, and they just shout, they don't know what to do. Eyes wide on a bushy tail, you know. So they're just like, they're scared. It's fierce. You've got three different women, three to four different strong female, you know, Marines screaming at them. They don't know what to do. They're scared. They're, you know, they just start saying things just to say them, like... You want to keep moving? I promise you keep moving. A drill instructor prepares you for everything. Life obstacles. They make sure that things you're stressing about now you don't have to stress about in the future. So they break you down and build you up into a stronger person. I'm pushing this one. They're about to throw up. They're about to pass out. Do I really want to? Yeah, I keep pushing. Your mind is going to give up before your body does. Am I really pushing them past the limits or are they about to pass out? But then once I see that and I just feed off of it, like, okay, let's go. Let's take it to the next level. Let's get out of that comfort zone. Let's really see what you're about. Let's really see if you can't handle this. If you can deal with a combat environment. If you can deal with fog of war. Maybe, you know, a little bit of screaming, a little bit of pain does to you. The whole entire time I was just like, I can't break. I have to keep pushing myself, not only for myself, but to show all the other pulleys there that they can do it. There was actually one point where I was with my group and two of my females were falling back and she just kept yelling, I mean, she goes, don't leave me behind. Make sure you get them, like, you're slacking on them. Right on. I'm in. I'm in. So I don't hear you. I'm in. I'm in. Let's go. Ready? So it just showed me that I can't only focus on myself, but I have to focus on others. And that's what teamwork is. And she just showed me that she was like, you need to make sure that you're on top of them. Don't leave them behind. Don't be selfish. I love this, like, for the moment, my senior drill sergeant gave me her speech. Well, not necessarily me, but the platoon. You know what I mean? Like, that clique that I already knew. I'm gonna do this. That, it helped. I'll give it some time. I'm gonna be there. And I just set goals for myself. I need to be a sergeant before this time. I need to do this, I need to do that I need to get all my ducks in a row. And I'm here now. Doing what I love to do.