Crossroads
Personal
My life changed February 19.
I enlisted that morning. That was over 10 years ago and life has been great ever since.
I don’t even know where to begin. With the bonus packages I have received, I’ve been able to buy a house. As an Ordnanceman (loading bombs on aircraft), I have traveled around the world. I intend to get involved in real estate when I retire. The Navy even paid for my education so I could get my real estate license. My immediate goal is to make it into an Officer’s program; I would like to become a Chief Petty Officer.
I was always the black sheep of the family. I wasn’t into school (studying wasn’t something I liked to do). I got into trouble. Now, my mom makes scrapbooks with the newspaper articles I send her about the places I have been while on liberty during deployments. She is very proud of me.
The Navy didn’t get me to where I am today. I did that. What the Navy did was give me the opportunity to succeed.
– Jeffrey Campbell
Petty Officer First Class, Aviation Ordnanceman
