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I decided to join the Air Force because

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I wanted to do something great for

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myself . The highest point of my career

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would be making staffers try winning

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multiple wards back to back the

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lowest moment of my life in the Air

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Force Waas . I was dealing with

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something that was very personal , and

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I kind of closed everyone off . One day

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I had called one of my friends because

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at that point I just knew that if

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I didn't call him , then I just I

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probably wouldn't even be here . My

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supervisor of my friends , also my

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first sergeant , like , took me to go

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get help on . That's when , like ,

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I was just thinking to myself , like

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You need to be alive because you got

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family and it's not because they're

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counting on you . It's because they

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love you . And I had to realize that ,

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and you have to get out of your own way

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and stop being stubborn and get the

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help that you do need rely on someone ,

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whether it's a friend , whether it's a

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supervisor not trying to give the Air

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Force air answer . I'm trying to be

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riel realize that those people are on

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the other line , probably waiting for

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your call