 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. With 40 years of being in the hearing care industry, you'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. Floyd Central High School is seeing an increase in students expressing interest in military careers. During the fall semester, three seniors have enlisted to join the armed forces and defend their country and another has returned from his first summer of boot camp. Floyd Central Assistant Principal and ex-Marine Chester McCoy congratulates his students on their decision. I can't say enough about these young men that have decided to, you know, as you said, dedicate themselves to service to our country. I don't know that there's a greater honor as far as a career path or a job path as far as it is, it is a job, it can't be a career, than to enlist or to join our military and serve our country. Out of the group, one student has enlisted in the Marine Corps. Johnny Teal tells us more about his decision and expectations. Oh, I'm like fully excited like I'm ready for it. Like, it's a big decision and I know it's going to change a lot of things for me. It's going to make me a better person and I'm going to learn a lot of things. So I'm like fully prepared, fully ready. Expect to learn some morals, learn the value of the Marine Corps, just to learn to be a better person, be physically fit, mentally fit. I'm just kind of, you know, excited for it. Like, if I was asked about my future, you know, that's what I tell them is that's what I want to do. Like, I want to go through that training. I want to be a Marine. I want to serve my country. I want to, you know, defend this country. Another student was able to get their first experience in the military by spending the summer at boot camp. John Reynolds says he is now more motivated and confident than before. There was a lot of moments where they would try to tell you to quit, but then they would also quietly support you to try to make sure you didn't quit. They would tell you give up, give up, but then like them telling you to give up and give up made you not want to give up. Made you want to keep pushing, keep striving to be the best you could. In those real scenarios, they try to prepare you for it. You want to break and give up, but you just can't. You have to keep pushing forward. What it is now is just to keep serving my country for me, just to keep pushing through and trying to help the people around me to also do the good for their country. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Colum.