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- Mar 10, 2009
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Hi all. My name is Kevin, and I've wanted to be a military officer since I was a kid. I have a lifelong love of aviation, and I've always wanted to combine the two into an aviation career for the Air Force : )
I'm 23 years old, finishing up my first bachelors degree in Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Since it's a BFA and not a BS, I decided to go for a second bachelors to maximize my chances at achieving a military career. I was recently accepted by Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach, Florida for Aeronautical Science, and am looking at both ROTC while I'm there, or OTS after I complete the BS degree. 23 is a bit of a late start, I admit, but my life wasn't in as order as I would have liked it to be at 18..
My love of aviation is the fault of my mother, who has worked for airlines her entire adult life (first for Pan Am, then Delta when Pan Am went under), so flying has been a part of my life since I was very young. I'm Israeli born, but I was raised in New York City and don't speak a word of Hebrew or know anything about Israeli culture and whatnot..
Some of my motivations for wanting to serve.. as someone who has had a chance to travel a fair bit, I have had a lot of chances to see that the United States offers anyone with the will and the desire to succeed the ability to do so unhindered-> More than any other developed nation. That said, I've been able to educate myself even coming from a poor immigrant background. Speaking to foreign relatives and friends, I believe firmly that social standing would have held me back anywhere else. I want to repay the country somehow
Another big one.. I was in Manhattan on 9/11. I was on 57th and Lexington, in class (I was in teh 11th Grade at the time) when the attacks started. Luckily, 57th and Lex is a few miles away (by the Queensboro bridge if you're curious) from the WTC site, but that didn't make the day any less scary. Those bastards didn't just attack my country, they attacked MY city, and my favorite buildings in my city! My first impulse was to enlist or join the NYPD, but I never let go of my dream of being an officer.. I can go into this more if you like, feel free to ask. This is getting a little long winded, so I'll cut this short here
I'm 23 years old, finishing up my first bachelors degree in Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Since it's a BFA and not a BS, I decided to go for a second bachelors to maximize my chances at achieving a military career. I was recently accepted by Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach, Florida for Aeronautical Science, and am looking at both ROTC while I'm there, or OTS after I complete the BS degree. 23 is a bit of a late start, I admit, but my life wasn't in as order as I would have liked it to be at 18..
My love of aviation is the fault of my mother, who has worked for airlines her entire adult life (first for Pan Am, then Delta when Pan Am went under), so flying has been a part of my life since I was very young. I'm Israeli born, but I was raised in New York City and don't speak a word of Hebrew or know anything about Israeli culture and whatnot..
Some of my motivations for wanting to serve.. as someone who has had a chance to travel a fair bit, I have had a lot of chances to see that the United States offers anyone with the will and the desire to succeed the ability to do so unhindered-> More than any other developed nation. That said, I've been able to educate myself even coming from a poor immigrant background. Speaking to foreign relatives and friends, I believe firmly that social standing would have held me back anywhere else. I want to repay the country somehow
Another big one.. I was in Manhattan on 9/11. I was on 57th and Lexington, in class (I was in teh 11th Grade at the time) when the attacks started. Luckily, 57th and Lex is a few miles away (by the Queensboro bridge if you're curious) from the WTC site, but that didn't make the day any less scary. Those bastards didn't just attack my country, they attacked MY city, and my favorite buildings in my city! My first impulse was to enlist or join the NYPD, but I never let go of my dream of being an officer.. I can go into this more if you like, feel free to ask. This is getting a little long winded, so I'll cut this short here