All my life, i had wanted to be in the Army both home or abroad. I have seen a truck load of War movies, tried multiple times to enroll even right from my Elementary education days; i wrote dozens of exams to enter a military academy in my home country but nothing seems fit. Not that i never passed those exams but one way or the other a screw up always come up and my mama will always say "Dear son, you ain't meant to go shed blood nor get killed by a Bullet" to cheer me up!
Up until few years ago i still get clean shaved and get a "warboy" haircut, i used to be mistaken to be a Military officer partly because of my physique and partly because of the way i walk. Then i joined several para-military outfits while in school to get some mild military training. Till my late twenties i still tried out my luck to join the Air-force, but i had a major setback which was back dating my age to a much younger me which i could not stomach.
Everywhere i went, i am told i am intimidating people with my physique which i could not really help. I had been offered Body Guards and Bouncer roles before and i have been advised to try my luck with the State Secret Service to be a secret agent(maybe i wouldn't be spilling my guts now if i had been drafted), but i could i possibly go undercover when i posses a body that sells me out and a walk that reveals me?
That Soldier in me had me partake in several endurance sports and games in my little life, i had done a city marathon in Lagos Nigeria back in 2009 organized by "Global Com", a giant Telecommunication Company with the hope of winning $20 USD Grand, only God knows if i made the first one thousand!
Same year i went to enroll in a Television game show, an Endurance game in some remote forest known as "THE GULDER ULTIMATE SEARCH", i made it to the some stage where we were to swim which couldn't and was screened out. Three times i have tried mountain climbing to the summit of this Gigantic Mountain and i have done some really long hiking without flinching.
9/11
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After 9/11 happened, the US army needed land troops and when on a rampage to recruit massively. This took them to my Country Nigeria, an impromptu US Army Recruit at the Air-force Base which i narrowly missed for i got the information late. Getting there i was told the recruitment ended two days ago and i literally bursted into tears on my way out of the Cantonment, what exactly is wrong with me? could it be i would have died from the first bullet in Afghanistan and that was what was preventing me joining the army?
The only weapons i could use perfectly are my fist, my punches and my kicks a little bit of Knife marksmanship. I trained in Boxing and Karate in High school and college, but never had the chance to shoot a gun even though i have held and encounter it over a dozen times. My late Uncle use to have Double and a Single barrel gun he used for Hunting in Badagry Lagos back then, maybe he always reads my mind because he always asked someone older to take the Gun from me each time we offload his car after his long trips. I still wondered how thunderous that sound will be from a shot from those heavy duty guns.
If i have had my way into the army, only God knows why my skeletons would be by now or where i could have been buried, but still there is a soldier in me which endures and never give up in the face of my bitterness and maliciousness towards me!
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