Positively

I'm on Holiday Block Leave aka Christmas Exodus from Basic Combat training. I'm staying with a friend in Ohio until I return to Basic on January 3rd. I'm doing incredibly well. Life seems to have finally accepted I will conquer anything it hands out. I love being in the US Army, and I love training. I have some truly amazing battle buddies, and feel that joining the Army is the best choice I ever made. I'm in amazing shape, and I feel great. I'm extremely proud of myself. I have come an incredibly long way from where I was even just a year ago. I will graduate from basic in February, and will do so with an amount of pride unequaled. I am becoming a leader, though all I set out to do was meet the standard. I am proving everyone who ever doubted me wrong and then some. I am not just a female making it through basic training, I am a soldier and am shining as such. Plenty of people assume that I can't or won't work as hard as a male or that I believe I should be treated differently because of my gender. My biggest goal is to prove them all wrong in every way possible. I've experienced the gas chamber twice, and I've stuck IV's twice. I've done whatever was asked of me. I've completed every mission I've been assigned, and was still the first to volunteer when they called. I am proud and I am thankful and I will never look back.