Re-joining the Military
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Re-joining the Military
There was a lot that led to me joining the military.
As a child we moved almost every year of my life,
mostly within the Maritimes, sometimes
through Ontario. My dad’s job was in management
consulting so we travelled from spot to spot to spot.
In fact funny enough I’ve spent more time in one
location since being in the military than
I have ever did as a civilian. I moved all the time
so I was used to that lifestyle and when I was a
teenager my sister dated a guy in the militia and
I thought that looks like fun and I was always a
tomboy so I thought I’m going to give it a shot.
So when I was 17 years old I joined an infantry
militia regiment. I was the clerk. I was one of
the first females in the entire regiment and it was
a highland regiment, Stormont, Dundas and
Glengarry in Cornwall, Ontario.
It was fantastic. I learned how to do so many
things and I really enjoyed it but after that we
moved again and so I was somewhere else
and I went to school and I started my life.
I got married, that didn’t work out and
as I was going through my divorce
I thought what am I going to do?
I got to look after myself right so
I need some security,
some stability and I thought back,
you know I really enjoyed the military
when I was in it because I was by then
already trained as a nurse and there were
no jobs on the civilian side at the time.
It was within that cycle of no jobs where
you were living on a pager if anybody
remembers a pager, living on a pager
trying to get work and so I went into the
recruiting and I thought, maybe,
let’s see how this goes.
And I went for my interviews.
It took about a year and a half even though
I was already a trained nurse to get in.
But I kept at it because I think this is the
right thing so I got in and it was fantastic.
I wasn’t even in the military a year and
I was boots on the ground in the
Former Yugoslavia, yes pretty amazing!!
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