 I'm PSSN Diaz. I'm in a VAQ 140 admin department. It all really started midway through high school around December-ish. I've always had to dream one of the joint military, the AVV exact. It was always, oh go to college, that's a better route, go to college, guaranteed success. That wasn't really the option that I wanted to go. It wasn't really the route I wanted to go. I've always wanted to be independent, have my own things. I'm gonna live off mommy and daddy's money, and my parents are in the military, so my whole life I had that military influence, that patriotism, and I'm glad that rubbed off on me. I'm a big patriot of our country, so as soon as I saw the opportunity, when I was a young 17-year-old, I just went and took it, signed up on December 1st, 2014, went to MEPS. The whole process is crazy. My mom was emotional, my dad was emotional, and I had to go to pick a rate, and I was like, oh, a PS in admin? It doesn't really do a lot. I'm like, you have your AO's that are up top, you have your BM's that are just doing the hardest work. I'm like, counting doesn't really do much, but there's one thing that PS-1 said to me up there was that everybody has a mission.