The one relationship i fought so hard for had ended in a nasty way by her cheating on me. I got real fat as a result and on top of that i was 20 and a Papa John’s delivery driver. I decided to enlist and with the help of a close friend, i dropped a lot of that weight off and was even finally able to do 4 pull ups.

I went alone and i was so motivated with the change i did for myself. I didn’t even care about being a Marine, i was in ROTC in high school and nobody in my family served so i just chose that. As my training progressed, i felt so empowered with myself in a healthy way. I never had an ego and if someone struggled i went out of my way to lift myself and them up.

For example, in basic i couldn’t even climb a rope but when i got to my MoS, i climbed it with such ease and i didn’t even brag about it. I just felt so good. I even got to 21 pull-ups!

My recruiter told me he’d change my orders from reserve to active duty on the condition i enlist as a reservist to ship out sooner than expected........so i came back home because either he didn’t try or he couldn’t, he didn’t even respond to a single letter or call for help on that.


I got to my new duty station back home and i had all these things like Meritorious Mass and a fresh haircut haha but it wasn’t until the next time i reported to my reserve station that i hated it so much. There were so many fat Marines that i just felt so down.

I couldn’t believe that people would just casually let it happen and treat it as though it were perfectly normal. I wasn’t as gung ho or had a moto-boner but it was just an awful sight to see. I started feeling depressed.

I got arrested about a year after and my Master Sgt called me a liar in my story. Basically i told him i wasn’t drunk that night and he swears i was even though he obviously wasn’t there. So i hatched a plan for a way out.

We were in Camp Pendleton for our yearly training and i chose to get absolutely black out drunk when we had time for R&R. I bought a bottle of jäger and wow did i get drunk. He (MSgt) went out of his way to make my life hell so i stopped showing up altogether, maybe i should just tried popping on a drug test?

I kept trying to leave the reserves and at least go active duty but i was too new or they didn’t give a damn so that’s why i chose this way out otherwise i would’ve done that instead lol. I got out with a “Reason other than Honorable”

Honestly if we would’ve deployed i would’ve had a better time even if i would’ve seen combat. Being home just sucked the life out of me. Anyway, i hated the reserves if you didn’t catch that lol