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Today’s #militaryfreshhighlight goes to @lexeejay 🏆⁣
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“I joined the military right after high school and I wanted to follow in my Father’s footsteps. Then my sister and brother joined, so we are an Air Force family for sure. ⁣
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I am a SSgt in Security Forces stationed in MA. I absolutely love traveling and meeting new people, so security forces was a great career choice. Eight years in, five bases and over 25 countries later… I would say joining the Air Force was my best decision. Thankfully, I took the opportunity to capture all of my adventures and edit them for my YouTube.⁣
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As of right now, for professional goals I will be finishing my bachelors degree next year and look forward to pursuing my PsyD!”⁣
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Now this is @navyfresh 💪
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Military Fresh Highlight introduces you to GM3 Steadman @herbertsteadman

💪🏽 America’s Ninja Warrior
💈 Talented Barber
⚽️ Soccer Player | Coach
🦋Advocate for Lupus Awareness
🇺🇸 U.S. Navy Sailor + more

Born in Shreveport Louisiana , single mom , premature baby I faced alot of challenges growing up . We didn’t really have much but my mom and family made the best for us . I was 3 half months early 1 pound and 11 ounces . My mom was facing lupas she even went into a coma in the process . Through the grace of god we both were able to push through . With all of that going on it pushed me harder as a kid to grow up and do what I needed to do . I ended up graduating college in 2016 , going to barber school and graduating in 2017 . I played semi professional soccer soon before even thinking about joining the military.

In 2019, I joined the Navy as a Gunners Mate, focusing on my job, while at the same time Community- I was humbly honored to have been promoted and selected as Blue Jacket Sailor of the Quarter & Year within in one year! While serving in ⚓️ @americasnavy , I also trained for @ninjawarrior 🥷🏽💪🏾and competed in Season 14! Using my skills in soccer, I have been fortunate to coach some amazing young atheletes, and in addition, utilize my talents as a 💈Barber, aka @steadman_the_barber

My favorite quote I lean on:

REDIRECTION.
PAIN.
SETBACKS.
SHORTCOMINGS.
HIGHS. LOWS
ARE ALL APART OF THE
PROCESS....
EMBRACE IT,
RESPECT IT
AND TRUST IT!

Thank you @navyfresh for allowing my to share my story and like Navy Fresh vision, prove to the world that you can serve your country and be a unique individual!

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@semper.fresh
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One of the biggest steps you can take towards healing and bettering yourself in life is to share your story with others. It can be therapeutic for you, and inspirational to others.
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Part 1:

VERY heavy post—TW: abuse, sexual assault, suicide, bullying.

Here goes my rare moment of writing out a meaningful caption:

Not many of you know much about me, let alone about my military experience. I had an extremely rough childhood with abusive parents, got bullied in high school to the point of trying to take my own life, had “friends” stab me in the back in unimaginable ways, getting raped by a guy with rich parents (got swept under the rug), becoming homeless whilst working 4 jobs, then joined the toughest military branch.

All of these have taken a toll on me, but up until being in the military I’ve never experienced anxiety in my life. In bootcamp, I broke my hip one week before the Crucible and was nearly kicked out when they discovered I had spent a weekend in a mental hospital because of my suicide attempt. Between my stubbornness and resilience I refused to leave which made some people mad, but I proved to them that I had the motivation and drive to keep going. They put in a waiver request for my depression. In the meantime I healed my hip and they put me back into training. We went off to complete the Crucible and I remember it was scorching hot, I even became a heatcase. Still, I sucked it up and made it to right before the hike back in which you receive your EGA and officially become a Marine when they decided to pull me out of the Crucible because they forgot that the waiver hadn’t gotten approved yet. So they put me back in the Female Readiness Platoon until the waiver got approved…only 3 days later. Once again, I was put back into training to complete a SECOND Crucible from start to finish. I finally became a Marine then made my way to the West Coast for MCT. After graduating, I was sent to North Carolina for my MOS school.

(See next post for Part 2.)

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@navyfresh
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◈ Navy introduces you to @jahsonsnipes

“That skinny little boy from a small town in North Carolina “done grow’d”

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My nods fell off..

It happened during a dry-run of a night buddy-team live-fire range.

@heresthedrill and @xan2nasty were there to get me off the lane!

Luckily, before my iteration started, I tied them down with 550 cord to my helmet. I’m glad I did...and I’m glad they fell off during the dry run, and not during the live iteration.

A valuable lesson learned years ago proved true this night: tie your equipment down.

Don’t have your gear flopping in the wind - especially sensitive items like these. ACOG, CCO, PEQ-whatever, and anything else, tie it down.

📸: @villarama_photo

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@armyfresh

Where’s all of our Tankers??

@mazefaafili is out here living his best life!! 🙌

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