It's time.

It's time I did what I have always wanted to do. I am going to become an officer in the United States Marine Corps. I have a lot of work to do and it looks like a long road, but it's going to happen. As of right now, I am hoping to ship out for OCS next summer.

I have just completed my third week of regular exercise. In week one, I was running a total of three minutes out of my thirty-minute walk. As of today, I am able to run 15 minutes out of thirty-five minutes (I added an extra .2 of a mile to my regular path). According to the running schedule I am following, I should be running 16 minutes, but for being so overweight and avoiding all major forms of exercise for the past eight years, I think I'm doing pretty well.

I've been looking over MOSes that I could be interested in and I am really leaning toward Intelligence (including Signals Intel), Linguistics, MAGTF, or becoming a pilot (it's a long shot, but it's nice to dream). I plan to start learning what I need to know before I even sign a contract, so that I can be on top of my game. My goal is to go to Quantico with a 300 PFT to begin with, so that I can focus on what I am unable to master ahead of time.

Stats as of 9/27/08:
Weight: 205 lbs
Height: 5'4
Walk/run time: 35 min/15 min
Crunches: 10 per rep
Push-ups: 2 (I'm a weakling right now. This will change.)
What I'm reading: One Bullet Away. This is quite a motivating book. Nathaniel Fick did an amazing job putting his experience into words, and the book is very well written. I have purchased To the Shores of Tripoli, as a reward for completing three weeks of exercise.