Eric McClure:
CLASS OF 1998
Arkansas City High SchoolClass of 1998
Arkansas city, KS
Eric's Story
Life
Got out of school, worked , got married, joined the Army Reserve, got mobilized to Fort Sill for 6 months, got divorced, and now I am in the AGR Program (wich is active army working in reserve units). I've been AGR for over a year and a half now. It's challenging, but very much rewarding. I decided to further my education, and enrolled into colege at Cowley. My major is "Computer Information Technology." I don't have alot of time for school due to my job, but I have plenty of time to finish my degree, because I don't plan on getting out of the Army any time soon.
Workplace
I started out working at the Walmart Tire Lube Express as a Tire/Oil Tech. I finally got out of that hell hole a year and a half later. After Walmart I got on at Montgomery Elevators. It was a great job, but I was laid off two months later. I'm still wondering why they hired me in the first pl...Expand for more
ace... Directly after that I got on at Winfield Consumer Products. It was ok. The management sucked but my co-workers were all cool. I joined the Army Reserve and about 5 months after I got back from BCT and AIT I was Mobilized. I came back WCP after the Mob. After almost 5 years I quit and went AGR in the Army.
Military
Basic, for me, was easy. All you had to do is do what your told for 9 weeks. AIT was almost pointless. They taught us how to do out dated Active Army stuff, when the reserve way of doing the same things was totally different. I had to forget everything that I learned as soon as I got back to my unit. The passes that we got during AIT were cool. It was the closest to being in colege that I had ever been in at the time. I'm a 42A (Human Resource Specialist) in a Replacement Battalion. I'm currently a E5 Sergeant, but working on getting Staff Sergeant.
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