Spending a full week of training at Camp Pendleton made a serious impact on my life. My freshmen year of high school I was actively involved in the JROTC program, and one of our field trips is Camp Pendleton during Spring Break. It’s a good program, first I lived in the barracks and ate the food that the Marines ate. I repelled off a three story tower and shot the M-16 assault rifle. And …showed first 75 words of 687 total…

…showed last 75 words of 687 total…don’t get the opportunity to do or even think about doing. The training that I received at Camp Pendleton made me more disciplined, it challenged my courage and trust that I had with the other cadets. Lastly this training gave me the experience of an actual Marine, because that’s how they treated us, like we were one of them. And that is something that you can’t understand until you’ve done it.