Reflective Essay: My Involvement With The Army Community

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give” stated Winston Churchill. Being involved with the community is more fulfilling than watching oneself succeed alone. I believe that my personal background has had an influence of the activities I am part of: activities such as the Army Reserve Teen Panel.

I am currently a member of the Army Reserve Teen Panel of the United States. This selective national organizations helps teens, children, and families around the country ease their transition to deployment, mobilization, or being warmed up to the idea of being part of the ‘army family’. This organization involves a competitive process such as writing an essay, submitting the application, interview, and recommendation letter. …show more content…
I remember that after a month of being inaugurated, I was assigned to attend a YLEAD in Chicago, I was a little frighten attending because I would be a Junior Advisor which means I was in charge of teens whose ages range from twelve to some eighteen. At the time, I was sixteen and I feared how the older ages would respect me as their advisor. Once we arrived in Chicago, I communicate with the other Junior Advisor and sat down and decided what activities we were going to do. I was over a group of fifteen and it was my responsibility that they didn’t sleep through lessons or be isolated away from everyone. For the past week, I’ve learned more about the effects of the army than I realized. I myself is a dependent, children, of parents in the army, so I knew how they felt, but nothing could prepare me with the stories they shared. I heard stories how their parents attempted to commit suicide because of the after-shock of returning home from deployment or that parent that’s home would stress on how he/she weren’t able to be both parents to their kids. This was really heart breaking and I knew I had to do something. So when it was time to do a teen forum that was going to be sent to the ARTP for meetings, than be sent to the general of the reserve army, I’ve decided to step in. I talked with several teens on how they want the army to do to better ease their …show more content…
With the Yellow Ribbon in Dallas, I stayed at the marketable to explain to the parents or the guardian the importance of having family support because the children are the ones who struggle the most. Their academics and social life will start to diminish because they are consider ‘grieving’ for the parents who is mobilized or deployed and they are missing the important marks or points in their life. Than I would switch with another ARTP member, and attend a teen resilience

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