My (Former) "Job"
	I was an officer in the Marine Corps.  Because I have a degree in Business Finance, the Marine Corps and I agreed it would make sense for me to be a Financial Management Officer.  Upon graduating from the Financial Management Officer Course, I was sent to Okinawa, Japan, where I worked for a year as the III MEF (Marine Expeditionary Force) Exercise Budget Officer.  As the ExBudO, I worked closely with many senior officers planning budgets for the training exercises done by III MEF.  I was responsible for managing a $5M exercise account, plus close to $10M in associated funds.  By the end of the year, I was getting really good at the job and starting to find new ways of cutting costs or getting extra funds.  Even more importantly, I had gotten  my advanced scuba certification and was having a blast diving the fabulous tropical waters around the island.  But civilization called, and I headed back to SoCal.
	Once in San Diego, I missed the fabulous diving that I took for granted in Okinawa.  However, I enjoyed my work far more than I did in Oki.  You see, I was stationed at the best base in the Corps: Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.  I was a Series Commander for about a year, working with the best Marines in the Corps.  The officers and Drill Instructors there were the best Marines I ever worked with.  Plus, it was extremely satisfying to be a part of the process of transforming new recruits into highly motivated Marines.
								After 10 months in recruit training, I was given a new assignment as the Assistant Operations Officer for the Western Recruiting Region.  In this capacity I returned to crunching numbers, although there were no dollar signs attached.  I kept track of the numbers of new applicants contracted and shipped to boot camp from everywhere west of the Mississippi River.  I also reviewed enlistment waivers, making decisions that affected the future quality of our beloved Corps (sounds pretty important, huh?).  Working with recruiters was different from working with Drill Instructors, but I got an interesting perspective on the Marine Corps from them.   My boss was also different from the officers I worked with in RTR (the Recruit Training Regiment), but he was fun as long as I didn't take him too seriously.
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