Prioritize working on the body and mind

How do you know you'll make it through the pipeline? Becoming an Air Force special operator is a goal of many people.  I had the same goal earlier in my life. When I started getting serious about joining the military, my question became:  why wouldn't everyone want to be a combat controller for at least a few years? In my mid twenties the choice was easy for me.  I could join the Air Force and at least attempt the combat control pipeline, or I could keep doing what I was doing in Tennessee, and I'd hope that I could graduate college with a degree I didn't care about, keep working a job that paid just enough to survive, and probably never leave the area I grew up in.   And lets not forget all the wonderful people that were starting to become regulars in my life.  I was starting to hang around the older mid to late twenties people that were not really doing anything in their life. They weren't in school.  They were working jobs that paid very little, and they had no r

The following post is from a book I'm hoping to have complete soon.  It contains experiences from the Combat Control pipeline.  The is about my first experience at Army Airborne school at Fort Benning, near Columbus, GA. From- The Spaces in Between ( a self published Novel)   Fort Benning Army Base, near Columbus Georgia, was hot and humid in the summer, just like Tennessee. Back then, it was the only place the U.S. military sent personnel to learn the art of static line jumping.  The terrain was familiar to me.  With the red clay and tall Georgia pine trees all around the base, it was more normal to me than the Texas landscape.  The fragrant smell of the pine trees instantly brought me back to visiting my grandparents near Charleston, South Carolina.  It felt kind of nice to be back in familiar territory, even though I wasn’t looking forward to the training.    It was the first time in my short military career that I'd stepped foot on an Army base.The barracks in the Air Force