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My Brother Graduated from Air Force Basic

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My Brother Graduated from Air Force Basic

My Brother Graduated from Air Force Basic Training

So this past week, from Wednesday to Sunday, I was in San Antonio Texas for my brother’s graduation. It was such a great time because my family and I saw my big brother join the military. Now, as I said in an earlier article, I come from a military family. My grandfather was in the Navy, my dad was in the Army, and now my brother is in the Air Force. So we have three of the five branches represented in my family.

As some may know, the Air Force was established in 1947. They were a part of the Army until they said that they wanted some soldiers to be focused on just flying aircrafts. For school, airmen can go to the Air Force academy in Colorado. However, there is a base in San Antonio. This is where my brother went for his basic training.

So we left Wednesday and got to San Antonio later in the afternoon. When Thursday came around we got up at 5:30 am CST and headed to the base. When we arrived we saw some other soon-to-be airmen marching along the road. Keep in mind that the sun hasn’t even risen yet. We would do that for Thursday and Friday because we had to be at the location really early.

The whole thing was beautiful and made me proud to be an American as well as proud brother of an airman. When the march on ended on Friday we got to see some of the planes that were on display around the parade field. We saw a lot of older planes and jets like the F-15, F-16, and the A-10 Warthog. They were all so nice to see and I even got a nice picture with two planes with the headquarters in between the two. After the whole weekend was over, we got on a plane and flew back arriving around 6:30 pm EST.

Overall, it was a beautiful week and the setting was so patriotic and American and San Antonio is a great military. Everywhere we went people would tell my brother thank you for your service and it was wonderful to see. The military is an important and crucial part as to why we have the freedoms and rights we have today. The military is the reason why we are able to exercise the rights we practice each and every day. So to all those who have served whether you are active, reserves, national guard, or retired I want to say thank you so much for your service and we, the American people are very proud of all of you and to the people I know in the military again thank you for answering the call to serve and protect this great country.

Overall it was a beautiful week and the setting was so patriotic and American and San Antonio is a great military. Everywhere we went people would tell my brother thank you for your service and it was wonderful to see. The military is an important and crucial part as to why we have the freedoms and rights we have today. The military is the reason why we are able to exercise the rights we practice each and every day. So to all those who have served whether you are active, reserves, national guard, or retired I want to say thank you so much for your service and we, the American people are very proud of all of you and to the people I know in the military again thank you for answering the call to serve and protect this great country.


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