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Great Expectations Written By: Michael Orndoff As a young kid as I was always fascinated with the military and shooting things. I thought it would be really cool to join the military and shoot at the enemy who was terrorizing the people of our country. About seven years after the September Eleventh Attack when I was thirteen I decided I wanted to be in the military. I didn’t know what I wanted to do in the military. If I wanted to be in the Army, Navy, Marines, or Air force I could not decide. Well since I was afraid of heights the Air force was out of the question. I get sea sick when I go on the ocean so I would not do well in the Navy. I was left with the Army or Marines to decide with. My dad knew a guy who went to Iraq with the Marines and he had him come into his work and he talked to me about it and I decided I want to be in the Marines too. I have always been fascinated with shooting things at a distance and I think stealth is awesome so I figured I should try to be a Marine Sniper. I might not be the best shot in the world, but I bet with some practice I could be really good. Besides how awesome would it be to take out an Iraq Sniper from over 500 yards! It would be sweet to have people look up to you and to help them survive. Since I want to go to college first I can do the ROTC program at Virginia Tech and come out of college as an officer who is above some of the other soldiers. I have always wanted to go to college because only a couple of my family members have gone to college. It would be cool to go and get a degree in engineering and come out of college and go right into the Marines either as an Engineer or a Sniper. The best part of college is that you have better chance of getting a great job so that you don’t have to work three jobs in order to make ends meet and are still just barely sliding by. It would give me more free time in order to do the things that I would like to do. I am hoping that because I will be part of the Armed Forces that they will pay for part if not all of my college. So that I don’t have a huge bill to pay when I get out of college four years later. I have great expectations in my life. They are much diversified and they are set to when I am eighteen and older. What that means is that I have less than less than three years to get my grades to where they need to be in order to get into Virginia Tech. then I need to make sure that I know exactly what I want to do when I am that age, or else I will be stuck with that carrier choice for the rest of my life.