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Elementary School Christmas play
I was in 3rd grade and opened my big mouth and volunteered to play a roll in the school Christmas play. and because I was taller than everyone else, the teachers thought it would be funny to make me a lead elf. and I had to memorize a verse of a song that I had to sing solo in front of everybody. -
first book I actually chose to read cover to cover
I have never been a huge fan on reading, especially for fun or personal interest. I have always tried to steer clear of books, more than likely because of my ADHD but nevertheless, there was one occasion where I actually sat down on my own and read a book from cover to cover. And I believe I was right around 10-11 year old range, and the book that I openly read on my own from cover to cover was Captain underpants. way to start off with a literature masterpiece. -
Oscar Meyer Commercial
One day I was playing outside with my cousins at my grandmas house. I must have been 12. I have no idea what was going on that day, if there was a holiday or just a family get together or what. But the famous Oscar Meyer Weiner mobile drove down the road and stopped at my grandmas house, asking if one of us kids wanted to sing the Oscar meyer bologna song for their commercial. I got told to do it by my parents, so I had to memorize the lines to that stupid song. -
ASVAB
I was 17, I knew almost my whole life, that the Army was what I wanted to do. So after convincing my dad to sign me away, I went to the recruiter station in Janesville. After getting the application process started, they made me take the practice Asvab test on their laptop, to see if I was even worth the work needed to get my paperwork together. When they saw that I scored a 98 on the test, they freaked out and said that I could literally have any job that the army has to offer. I chose infantry -
Airborne School, Ft. Benning GA
The year was 2010, roughly April I believe, I was in the coveted Airborne School at Fort Benning GA. We were waiting to board the C-130 J Aircraft, and while we were waiting, we were given pieces of paper with the Airborne Creed. We were told to memorize the creed and recite the creed upon graduation. The fear of jumping out of a plane on our minds, made memorizing that creed extremely difficult, but in order to graduate we had to memorize the coveted airborne infantry creed. -
RASP (Ranger Assesment and Selection Program)
Same Year as when I went through Airborne School, I went straight to RASP upon my airborne graduation. Rasp is considered the most difficult school that the army has to offer. countless hours of rigorous training, with no food water or sleep. worst hell I've went through outside of deployment, but one aspect of RASP was we had to memorize everything in our ranger handbook, from squad tactics, to ethics, and of course there is another creed to memorize, the ranger creed, which is extremely long. -
My First Nine Line Radio Call
I was 19, on my first deployment in western Afghanistan. and we took contact from enemy insurgents. my Platoon sergeant got hit in the thigh, and left shoulder. and when someone gets hit, you call it in to our medivac crew on standby, which is called a nine line, due to there are nine lines in the radio call. ranging from the severity of injury, to location of injury, and if the individual injured is a critical, or immediate care. and I was the one who called it in. -
Special Forces Assesment and Selection (SFAS)
After my first deployment I was selected to go to Special Forces school. which is an honor because very few people get selected to go to this coveted school. I was 20 years old, and even though I didn't graduate the class, due to peer evaluations, a major aspect of this school was reading SOP (standard operating procedures) for everything from breaching doors, to setting up demo charges, to hand to hand combat, etc. -
Department of Veterans Affairs
Upon exiting the Army prematurely, I had to deal with the VA and all their mess, which is literally nothing but a never ending pile of paperwork to read over and fill out, stating every single event you went through in the military from medical issues, to "that one time I got a headache in basic training" so if you want literacy in its most boring form, and a never ending supply of it, go to the VA. -
Written Communication
Almost everything in this class has literacy involved, and to be completely 100% honest, I couldn't think of any other event in my life where literacy was involved, so this is the only other thing I could think of, but we deal with literacy every time we are in your class, hence the name "Written Communication" we even did an assignment called "Define Literacy"
