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If it's not challenging you , it's not

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changing you . And if it's not changing

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you , it's not making you better . Eric

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Bell initially , I joined open contract ,

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uh which was , I didn't know what my

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job was gonna be . And at the time I

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was selected uh to be a 2531 field

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radio operator in communications .

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And um from there , I became a

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2537 . And then after that , I became a

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career recruiter . Um 8411 . Then in

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8412 , what led me to join the Marine

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Corps was I was hurt my junior year

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playing football and I didn't think I

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was gonna let her and my brother joined

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the year prior to me joining . And so I

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called myself gonna follow in his

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footsteps . And uh so I initially

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joined the Reserves . And after a year

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or so I enjoy the military so much that

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I transferred on to active duty the way

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the Marine Corps set me up or the

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military , but preferably the Marine

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Corps set me up for success is , um

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it's a no quit , no give

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up organization . You know , it , it

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again , it teaches you how to move

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through uh complicated situations . Uh

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those situations that would normally

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challenge another person are , um ,

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they become kinda like happenstance for

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us . It's , it , it becomes something

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that we aspire to be a part of . I'm

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just grateful for my start . I'm

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grateful what , for what the Marine

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Corps provided me instilled in me ,

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helped me to become today . And when I

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look back over my life , I wouldn't

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change my life for anything in the

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world , especially my time in the

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Marine Corps .