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I f*ckin love the Guard....................

Just had my 4th SAPR training day in the last year due to the unluckiness of being at a training base, old base x2, and new base hit me on the way in. I also sat on a sexual assault Court martial at my old base. Can I file an unrestricted report because the AF has sexually assaulted me about sexual assault?

Mine was the gate guard at Moody AFB after looking at my military ID with the rank of 'cadet' and not knowing what the hell it meant. Pretty special memory...

My story isn't nearly as cool as most of those already posted, but I'm proud of it nonetheless. My enlisted recruiter did mine. When I first tried to join the USAF, they didn't want me - I'd been in too much trouble. My recruiter had no trouble meeting her monthly recruit quotas and could have easily discarded me and got back to working with the more eligible kids who could easily ship off to Lackland. However, she fought her flight chief and even commander in pushing for all the waivers and additional paperwork to get me in. It took her 9 months but eventually she convinced the Air Force to give me shot. I did okay and got picked up for AFROTC two years later. When commissioning time rolled around she was the obvious choice as none of it would have been possible without her help. She flew out for the event and said she enjoyed tracking down her old flight chief to let him know that the lost-cause kid just became an officer. zb

My first salute was from my dad, a retired Army CW3. He said it was one of the proudest moments of his life. He carried that silver dollar in his wallet until the day he died. He died in November, and I gave the eulogy. At the end, I returned the honor, giving him his final salute. One of the hardest days of my life.