....I received my honorable medical discharge after serving 7 months and 1 day at Fort Benning, Georgia. Strangely enough, it feels like I never left. I still remember vividly the long winding roads, the DFAC (dining facility), the recreation center, the clinics, the main hospital, the morale trips, pool PT. Joining the military was the scariest and most consequential decision I've made so far. Despite that, no regrets; it had to be done. Prior to enlisting, I was at my lowest low. Lived in a homeless shelter for two months, an experience that terrifies me to this day. Lost my home, lost property, lost friends and nearly took my own life twice (once in the shelter and once in the Army).

Looking back at it now, it sounds odd but the thing that ultimately led to my enlistment was this video: