 My name is Candice Bebe, and I'm a freelance fashion designer, and I'm a US Army drill sergeant. When I joined active duty, I was a firefighter. I transitioned out of the Army when I started a family. For a couple years, I really started to miss the Army, and I went back in the reserve as a firefighter. Working 911, we had a lot of downtime, and inside of that, I found myself continuously just endlessly looking at fashion online. I decided it was time for me to go to school. The Army gave me the opportunity to go to school because of its education benefits. I continued to work 911, do my Army reserves job, and go to school full time for design. When I graduated school, I really had no other idea how I was going to become a fashion designer other than, like, get in there and do it myself. That's what I've been trained to do. That's what I learned at school, and I'm in the early stages of having a design company. I was a firefighter for several years until I realized what I really missed was soldiering. I looked at the drill sergeants and said they're all very motivated. There's that soldiering I miss. Let me go try that. I got that fire inside of me again that I had at Basic Training, and it just had me want to get out on the drill and start being a soldier again. What I love most about being a drill sergeant is basic rifle marksmanship. It was a place where I struggled during Basic Training, so I like to give them an opportunity to really learn the skills and techniques that go into it. I'm proud to be an Army because it's really created opportunities for me that I don't believe otherwise would have done there.