Today is the same day 7 years ago that I joined the US army. I don't know why but I always considered today my birthday. After 9 weeks of basic training one of the instructors asked me if I wanted to try out for the rangers, so I did. After 61 days of ranger school, I was approached by my instructor again and asked if I was interested in furthering my special forces training(joining the green berets). I turned him down and asked him about SFOD-D, he told me everything I would need to apply and told me to check the paper for when the recruiter would be on base.

6 years ago I joined SFOD-D, 6 years ago my old life ended and my new ones began(yes, I did mean for that to be plural). Whatever I was before died when I joined delta, I belonged to the army. In fact if it was for me adopting my daughter, I probably would have never left.

I was reborn into delta, trained to resist pain, torture, to no longer fear being killed, to kill for no other reason than because I was told to. I learned a lot in delta, a whole lot I cant go into detail about. After joining I was there until I left the army.

A few days after officially being discharged from the army, I joined the private company Academi, unfortunately I couldn't go straight into XPG like I wanted to coz it took 6 years of special forces experience, I only had 4, so I have been with the company for 2 years today and officially able to join XPG. So I just got promoted to it today, I'm very happy about it. I am going back to what I am good at black element. My entire adult life I have been a soldier, I don't know if that will ever change.