Christopher James:  

Hello! I am Chris, I attended Putnam Voc. Tech. from 2006 to 2010, after transferring schools during my freshmen year of high school I found myself staying back a year. During my soft-more year at Putnam in 2007 I applied for a Job as a service clerk at Big Y in East longmeadow. After working and going to school in my senior year I had to make a decision just like everyone else... I was caught between going to school or joining the military. I checked out Westfield state, I checked out Ai of Boston, STCC, and HCC. At the time after looking into all of these schools I decided it was time to stop and do something different. My best friend in high school at the time wanted to join the military as well, we both signed up to go into the Air Force to work in a medical unit after working with a recruiter for a whiles at Barnes ANG the best thing in my life occured I was going to be enlisted into the Air Force, this was also one of the biggest let downs of my life as well, it was my buddies idea to join but he never made it in, at the time he was dealing with some medical issues. In the present though he is actually now a United States Marine. After graduation, not even a month later I was off to basic training to join the United States Air Force. It was a very exciting time for me, my future was there right in front of my eyes. Basic ...Expand for more