“I HAVE ALL THE FAITH IN YOU”

Since I’ve been going a little crazy about leaving for the Marines, and it’s starting to really sink in what’s going on with me and what I will be doing when the summer ends…I’ve come to realize my life is really, absolutely going to change. There are no if’s, and’s, or but’s about it! I’ve been watching videos on how the training will probably be and have been trying my best to mentally prepare myself to the massive change I’m about to face in just two months, all in the hopes to make myself the best “recruit” and eventually the best Marine people will ever meet in their lives.
Since I’ve been doing so much “research” on how and what I can do to pass the basic training portion of the task of becoming a Marine, I consulted with a few people, one of whom I got an email from some time ago. He was searching for pictures of (our) my native Puerto Rico and bumped into some really nice pictures I had taken of the beach in my home town. He sent me an email and I got it a month later (the email was sent to an old email address that I so happened to check, but don’t really use) I respond and there it is, he’s a “fan” of my writing and likes the idea of me joining the Marines, he gives me advice and tells me that he has all the faith in me becoming a Marine…
Then, it happens, he sends me his address so I can write to him when I’m in training and tells me that he’s not going to put his ranking on his address on the letters nor his full name, so I won’t get any heat from the Drill Instructors, I didn’t think much of it, then it happens, I see the ranking, I know why, he’s a Major! Albeit a retired one, but still a MAJOR!!! If no one knows what that is, check this out: HERE. The gold leaf at the “officer ranking” portion of this web site is what he is, one of the highest ranks in the US Marine Corp! He’s five rankings away from being the Commandant of the US Marine Corp, meaning, he’s 5 rankings away from being the boss of the US Marine Corp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had a conversation with him about what I had planned to do in order to get by and he agreed that I was going to do great, he also told me the following, that made me cry…I can still say cry since I’m not a Marine yet, after I have my Globe, Eagle and Anchor (the Marine Corp insignia) I can no longer say I cry, my “eye balls would be sweating” in certain cases….so, to quote the Major “awesome” (yes, that’s his name for this site) this is what he said to me: “I have all faith that you will be fine, and will graduate without a problem, I admire what you have done already in order to take such a big step into becoming a Marine and once you graduate it will be MY honor to say to people: this ladies and gentlemen is the true meaning of a Marine”….do you know how I started to cry??? Yeah, amazingly so, I couldn’t stop crying, or smiling, for a MAJOR to tell me something like this, of course it’s inspiring and a great HONOR.
People like this, Major “Awesome”, Sgt. “Coolness” among others that give me tips and tell me how much they admire all the hard work I’ve been putting into becoming a Marine, even before I hit basic training, the people I’m constantly surrounded by, my best friend, her brother, my 2 aunts, the mother of my niece, that give me all the support and back up that I couldn’t ever imagine, these people are who I’m fighting for my future for, along with doing it for myself…people that I’ve never ever met in person, that tell me that I will be a fine Marine, this gives me the motivation to keep on going, and to not, ever, let fear interfere again with my life, because I am great, and I will do great, because there’s nothing else I can do, but be great, be one of the finest, one of the Elite, be one of the Few and Proud!