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Personal Narrative: 7 Million Soldiers In The United States Army

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There are currently about 2.7 million soldiers enlisted in the United States Army. Now imagine that each of these soldiers has a wife and two kids, then those numbers go up to 8.1 million Americans who are affected directly by the military. After generations of the moving process and kids having to adapt to being shipped from one school to the next you think that they would move kids less often, but that is not the case. In Fall of 2012, I was enrolled at Killeen High School a school near Fort Hood, Texas. I made the volleyball team and was finally placed on varsity my junior year. That was the year that the team went to playoffs for the first time in thirteen long years. I was involved in National Honors Society, Dual Credit, AVID, and Pre-AP

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