I have been in the Marine Corps for a little over two years now… Sep 11 was my two year mark… That day is significant to many… and it marks the day I went to Marine Corps book camp… On December 2nd I was promoted to Meritorious Corporal… Being its on the second it makes it special… regular promotions are on the 1st of the month… in order to get it Meritoriously I competed on several boards where you stand in front of 7 Marines, the ranks range from SSgt to SgtMaj… on the last board you have 6 1StSgt’s and 1 SgtMaj and you get asked a series of questions…
I was so nervous before getting up in front of these Marines but once I stepped in front of them all I could think about was getting promoted… Once I won two weeks later I would get pinned on (promoted to the new rank).
There was a lot of drama with the ceremony it self and I wasn’t able to get it like I wanted it… So we had two ceremony’s… one was on Dec 2nd which fell on a Sunday with close friends and family and the second one was on the 3rd with Co-workers.
On the first promotion I had The Ma’am (Maj Johnson) and GySgt Packard pin me on and Maj Johnson led the promotion. On the second ceremony my parents pinned me on and my boss led the promotion ceremony so everyone was happy… I was so happy to be able to get all the people I cared about and looked up to involved…
