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Greetings,
I'm Phil and I live in Raleigh, recently moved here from Paris. Married with kids, and looking to enlist in NC-ARNG and hopefully trying out for SFRE once they start doing it again.
When I was a young kid, until 14 or so, the only thing I wanted to do when I grew up was to be in the military. I had set my sights on the Air Force Academy and was a member of the Civil Air Patrol working on my private pilot's license. Then my mother died suddenly and my life went into a tail spin. Ten years after that I met my wife, and finally started crawling out of the wreckage. Now we've got four kids and I again have felt the call to service, although with those kids and a mortgage I can't drop my career and go AD. So I chose the National Guard, specifically North Carolina, because they've got the 20th SFG(A). My goal for the next six months to a year is to learn everything I can about SF, and to prepare myself mentally and physically, even if I won't be REP-63.
I have already reached out to someone in NCNG SF via the NGSF website, and he's been super helpful. I don't know if I'm supposed to use real names here, but he's an 18Z MSG in the 20th SFG.
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