first off i would like to start to talk to you about kids that are going to shrink from high school into the military in the re i know here p t a just last year graduates of two thousand and sixteen only two out of three hundred sixty three students went to the military why do you think the rate is so low well i just feel like a lot of people they aren't aware of the choices that they may have because i know with me my biggest like my biggest thing from when i was a little girl to high school is i wanted to get a scholarship for golf and gone for there and i feel like such a peters we're very fortunate to have a really good athletic program that a of people look in to obviously go in for sports and a lot of people see the military as a way of if people can't pay for college or something but they don't understand that when you're a young kid twenty two or twenty four getting out of college like the amount of debt that urine is really crazy in there one really knows that what the military offers what that they have for that college tuition and then they get turns on that what branch you do but if they whatever branch you go into there are so many options i guess people just up to sixty schools i can choose from to get my for education they can range from like north carolina university carnegie mellon university so you can even get higher up education that way and you would not have to pay for any of it s definitely yes do you think one of the reasons why a lot of students don't go in a military state out of high schools because there's a lot of pressure from the family in parents yeah it's obviously they always call it when you first joined the motional roller coaster because you're kind of get the decision of wow why did i do that i why can't i just be a normal kid go to college and not have to be committed to this big thing but once like once you get into it the nerves will settle a little bit but it's just such a different beast that's so hard to actually grasp it until you're in it but i know from my parents they were a little like shell shocked when i came out that i wanted to do it because of my older sisters doing it now so it was to help ease it in a little bit because they have experience with her now but i feel like a lot of parents they might go against it or they might be for it to spend only the house really i think it would have to depend on the household busses call each is one of th going to come back from break but like when you go off you're going to be gone for a very very long time and it's one of those things that they're not ready to let go of their kids and that's gotta be tough or you get the baby in the get up to thirty paid days a year you can take whatever you want and that doesn't include that on every government holiday flag get off in the like if you're in school a lot of the weekend they can come visit you like it's not people think you're like gone on deployment overseas for a really long time but you're really not you know that's i feel like a lot of people don't look into it that's why they get really scared they obviously i'm kind of afraid of it that's going to think i'm not going to home for the summers and everything but i think it will be a good difference do you think that your sister being in the marine corps really influenced you into going because i did some research and it said that thirty eight percent had fathers that were in the military and six percent had mothers that were in the military and then they continued in their parents path do you think that influenced you your sister yeah i feel like she kind of opened my eyes to what was what was out there she originally wanted to go into the air force after college to be a pilots my father is a pilot but then she is a very very stories that they tell but i just feel like yeah she was she originally she introduced me into the new x y so i wanted to go into nuclear engineering in the navy so i was always really really strong in math and science now is kind of in that place as a junior like i don't know what to do with my life like i know what classes i'm good and i don't really know what i want to go to school for so i want you to go talk to recruiters see if you like it and then i did that and i knew i know th the medical program and i found out about that and that's where my passion really is and i just kind of went from there but it definitely originated with her so you're a courier is that how you applied and got started with everything played actual paperwork stuff to go into the office you pretty much get to show your interest and then you have to fill out all these papers to answer loads of loads of questions very like it's actually it's actually harder than you think like some of the questions like have you ever been to a doctor think if you answer yes that could limit you from going into the military but a lot of people don't know that i mean you know say you know you have paperwork and if you get approved you have to get on top of it's a map with the federal voting downtown to go get a physical you have to pass that they need to take your as well to see what jobs you're allowed to get and they go so it's definitely not an easy process a lot of people get denied so i can imagine because i know there was a scene when i know one of the seniors that actually went into the military from last year and he is just finally getting done with his training and it's been almost what two semesters for the whole college kids that's a lot of i would not be able to handle that so you have other yes it's just my sister and i so she attended college first before she went to the yeah right she honestly wasn't i don't think she was ever thinking about it that she went to school for exercise science and she wanted to do something with like physical training like personal training stuff like that but then once this came up was a that she's always been very she should always love her country a lot very patriotic and she is definitely that's her marine corps her how did she start her journey to chad to go through training to get to  because the marine officers are one of the highest respect norman sers in the military so you even it's not it's like a designated thing you're going that they need to make sure that you're the type of person that they want and then like every few weeks you'd have to go up there you feel like they're called police functions and you would have to do things like carry someone on a stretcher for like ten miles and stuff that you had to be physically fit for you go and call officer candidate school down in quantico and she was down there for ten weeks it's like the it's a boot camp but it's for obviously the higher level officer like you should when you go to bootcamp the more they teach you how to do things and for officer candidate school they expect you to already know it so they'll tell you to do it once and then you have to get officer candidate school i think my sister started out with even like fifty or sixty girls in only like twenty graduated so they got a lot of people got kicked out it's hard that is tough  but one thing she hated running before she left hates running even for your physical fitness test you have to go to run three miles and she was like can i get i did so hard but she she worked really hard at it before she left and perfect the only be taking in her footsteps what he what do you want the person to carry what i'm going in the navy is called a hospital corpsman so you when you go to training you get trained in everything from intense that's insane so are you going to go to school after you're done with your basic training yes so how it works is after i will go through basic training for nine weeks in chicago and then i'll go from my  korea you could be anywhere in between and that's where you'll be working every single day you can do is say you're on a ship you can do it online school and stuff and then if you're at the bases or on the ships they'll fly out professors you can go to set do you think you'll stay in the military for a long time are you going to branch off and get a bigger job and like a medical field i've been thinking about a little bit but i feel like since i don't know how i have to kind of adjust if i like it i think i'll you like if you really work for it here you go these are very successful because it's just so you're sitting there and they all these things are read here you've got to go for it like they are so that you could literally get a four you could be a top surgeon and have no debt from there so it's a really cool i now understand why we hold such a high respect for everyone in the halls because that's one of the things like you go through so much and i feel like that's one of the things that a lot of people i think are intimidated by like having that much respect for and like every single person is going to have that respect of than find out oh i'm a veteran i'm a veteran i mean they're like oh my god what and people don't even know the half of it and i think the hardest thing for people in our grade is say  it people bring up stuff that they should bring up and then it just goes bad i have to you know so you have to say to say it could be done that people make it really complicated so all the family aspect your family and your friends respond when they found out like a she's not going to college i'm not going to see her for a while because obviously like i thought you were going to be around for weeks that's what most people think so i mean my family parents always  she never been a home for that long actually how i mean my sister now is when she'll come home because she's only in quantico she's a driving distance we should try to come home like as many weekends or she can i think she will see the dog more than us but like i think it will definitely be it requires you to make decisions that you would have made you know for because you're like ok it's different than going to college because i'm moving on in my career like i'm starting to grow up more i want the utah economy kind of figure out what you want more if  'll be very interesting what happens when i go so your extended family did they have a similar reaction or yeah they're all very excited as is my sister everyone was into we wrote when you go to o c s people can write you letters so they wrote a letter that every single day and she let you go she writes back and gave time the she was at church on sunday she was allowed to write back sometimes you get something but it definitely makes you have a more more pride and explain my family's always been really supportive when require people to not make it through classes want people to get so it's hard for people to motivate themselves as much as i you be motivated by other people and they've been supporting you for a while now ever since i know you worked with a our officers here locally with buying them bus and would you like to talk about that for yeah when i was in seventh grade i started my dad help me make the phone calls and i was like a little girl you know i don't know what to do with this my daughter is talking about it and he talked to the sheriff of washington county they thought he was joking that they're also very supportive about it i think want to first told the one guy he's like oh my god i was never really goes like them doing them for so long and it's just like it shocked everyone makes my sister she was always kind into that was like their is probably a lot more beneficial having your sister before you can learn so much from her like imagine her going in like not knowing i really can when i go yes she teaches me it's called the drill and stuff where you do a different like movements with your feet and all that she taught me all of it yeah they're definitely they they take that very seriously they think they're the best they are so because i mean again i've said it so many times already but nobody has gone for what they've gone through  hikes and they just get a sleeping bag tent anything you literally just sleep in a sleeping bag wow where she located again she's in quantico virginia it's called the basic school after their son someone you graduate officer candidate school every marine corps officer has to go hikes at like a jogging pace for knowledge a job you have to walk and you have leg ninety pounds on your back or the one hike they did as they put it in perspective my sister weighs one hundred thirty five pounds and she one hundred thirty pound pack on her back they her immediately but that's a lot of perseverance right there yeah you know how long is she going to be at that school the big she graduates in the beginning of march and then i think she's getting her she'll be getting that next week so officers go you don't really know what you're going into until the end of the basic school kind of like they have a feeling for what you'd be good at to tell you ok here are your options but then after she graduates graduate she could also be anywhere in the world as guys we're kind of like trying to visit her as much you travel all around the world you and you're also and i don't think you're helping your country you are traveling you are doing like fifty million things that no high school student could ever dream of and no high school student really knows what this is makes a lot of people they say oh all they do really cool p m i it kind of goes my mom at the dinner table want to talk about sometimes but i'm sure she'll appreciate it yeah like in the long run i don't have all this talent is something you have to get used to like for us in my family my sister's an architectural engineering but that's not even close to medical so it's just hard because socially with the education you have to push yourself a lot because you do you have a lot of freedom and you can't you have to chase it yourself so it's just kind of like it's  ding for like an easy test i mean or study for it or you can just relax because the one school technically you can't sail out of it but if you do graduate at the top you have more of a chance of choosing where you want to go