WEBVTT 00:00.009 --> 00:02.176 If it's not challenging you , it's not 00:02.176 --> 00:04.398 changing you . And if it's not changing 00:04.398 --> 00:06.620 you , it's not making you better . Eric 00:06.620 --> 00:08.953 Bell initially , I joined open contract , 00:09.000 --> 00:11.300 uh which was , I didn't know what my 00:11.310 --> 00:14.319 job was gonna be . And at the time I 00:14.329 --> 00:17.590 was selected uh to be a 2531 field 00:17.600 --> 00:20.579 radio operator in communications . 00:21.329 --> 00:24.260 And um from there , I became a 00:24.270 --> 00:28.209 2537 . And then after that , I became a 00:28.219 --> 00:31.620 career recruiter . Um 8411 . Then in 00:31.629 --> 00:34.130 8412 , what led me to join the Marine 00:34.139 --> 00:36.419 Corps was I was hurt my junior year 00:36.430 --> 00:38.541 playing football and I didn't think I 00:38.541 --> 00:41.240 was gonna let her and my brother joined 00:42.119 --> 00:45.130 the year prior to me joining . And so I 00:45.139 --> 00:47.028 called myself gonna follow in his 00:47.028 --> 00:48.917 footsteps . And uh so I initially 00:48.917 --> 00:51.209 joined the Reserves . And after a year 00:51.220 --> 00:54.869 or so I enjoy the military so much that 00:54.880 --> 00:57.509 I transferred on to active duty the way 00:57.520 --> 00:59.470 the Marine Corps set me up or the 00:59.479 --> 01:01.535 military , but preferably the Marine 01:01.535 --> 01:03.535 Corps set me up for success is , um 01:04.138 --> 01:07.750 it's a no quit , no give 01:07.760 --> 01:10.419 up organization . You know , it , it 01:10.430 --> 01:14.080 again , it teaches you how to move 01:14.089 --> 01:16.919 through uh complicated situations . Uh 01:17.419 --> 01:19.475 those situations that would normally 01:19.475 --> 01:22.550 challenge another person are , um , 01:22.589 --> 01:26.029 they become kinda like happenstance for 01:26.040 --> 01:28.151 us . It's , it , it becomes something 01:28.151 --> 01:30.930 that we aspire to be a part of . I'm 01:30.940 --> 01:33.069 just grateful for my start . I'm 01:33.080 --> 01:35.080 grateful what , for what the Marine 01:35.080 --> 01:38.000 Corps provided me instilled in me , 01:38.260 --> 01:41.040 helped me to become today . And when I 01:41.050 --> 01:43.050 look back over my life , I wouldn't 01:43.050 --> 01:44.994 change my life for anything in the 01:44.994 --> 01:46.883 world , especially my time in the 01:46.883 --> 01:46.980 Marine Corps .