Kim Brown

Personal Blog 20 | Travel | Future Sailor | LGBTQ Hospital Corpsman

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The past can't be rewritten, but it can make me stronger. I'll be thankful for every change, every heart break and every scar.

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The main labor of love I've had set inside my head is simply to travel. I have been going with my grandparents since I was little as the age of 5 or 6 all around the islands of the Philippines and I would recall that we'd simply go through our auto and we'll make a trip island to island through a freight boat. It was tiring yet fun in light of the fact that we get the opportunity to see a variety of stuff. It was never inside my psyche to join the military. NEVER! My fantasies were small to the point that I couldn't trust that God is putting forth me something more. My father really wanted me to run with the USAF since he served for them before for a long time, yet I thought why not join the Naval force? At to begin with, I wasn't generally into the thought. I mean - why might I need to pound my self physically? Why might I need somebody shouting at my face for reasons unknown? (RTC) then I understood, bootcamp is just transitory (2 months). Shouldn't something be said about in the last mentioned? I all of a sudden thought about every one of the impetuses that the military could give me. Beside beginning my life, to being fiscally steady, to beginning a vocation as a Corpsman, to travel - significantly more! It made me need to endeavor harder on my ASVAB test. I have fizzled 3 times! My first test was 29, my second was 49, I clearly went 20 focuses higher than my initial one so I needed to take an affirmation test and I scored a 38, a 11 focuses lower than my second score. My scouts had a go at everything to get me through with a waiver for 1 point. I sat tight months for a call from them each and every day, except each and every day I get baffled. Following 6 months of sitting tight and no endorsement for my waiver - I simply needed to take the test once more! At last, I go with a 60. I was shocked to the point that the delegate disclosed to me that I did extraordinary and he revealed to me what my score was, without a moment's pause I said to him that my father would be so pleased and I cried to bliss. I initially marked in as a Settlement Sailor and I just couldn't take my contemplations out on the grounds that it troubles me that I won't have a profession way in the Naval force (not till I achieve E-4). In this way, I conversed with the leader of our selecting station and revealed to him that I wasn't content with my occupation and I would prefer not to leave unless the employment I have set as a primary concern since. Mind you, they didn't give me a chance to pick when I was at MEPS! The occupation qualifier just disclosed to me this is I think the one for you. Luckily, when I educated the head concerning it he promptly made telephone calls to inquire as to whether there is an accessible opening for HMs (Doctor's facility Corpsman) and they had one! I thought then perhaps it was an indication that God needs me in and as a Corpsman, I was so upbeat and satisfied then. Presently, I'm leaving for RTC soon as an E-1 Corpsman and ideally graduate with stripes. In the photograph: NRS Antioch at DEP meeting at a Recreation center.

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I just received the mail my baby sent me last month and I'm so astonished at how thoughtful she could get. I'm very much delectated when I optically discerned this minuscule envelope that has her picture when she graduated from high school and I couldn't stop smiling when she actually thought of making a paper cut out of her hand! She savvy how much I wanted to know how it feels to hold her hands! I'm doting the letter she sent me with her lip mark on it, indirect kiss. Awe! ☺️ Lastly, the bracelet that she was supposed to give me as a surprise but ended up showing it. HAHA! What a paramount bracelet it is! The compass is because she kens that my only life goal is to peregrinate and that compass are habituated to show which direction a place is, it signifies to verbally express "good life direction." The anchor is associated with the compass that withal designates to travel but at the same time with me being in the Navy, it's so nice to have it on a bracelet. The illimitability sign denotes aeonianly, so I'm jubilant that this bracelet tells something consequential in life. "Life is a journey, not a destination." And "To peregrinate life in a good path forever with my baby." 💋💕☺️ Thank you so much for this amazing gift baby! I love you to the end of this galaxy and never ever back!