Personal Narrative: My Experience At The Chief Academy

I came to the Chiefs Academy with the expectation to just get thru it and check the box. I ended up gaining eight new friends that are very different than myself, but are very similar to myself. Before I arrived at the academy fitness was a few times a week, and a check box. My leadership skills were good, but I honestly had no idea what I was doing. The Chief Academy has been an opportunity to get away and work on myself professional, personal, and improve my leadership skills. On the first day of Chiefs Academy you are assigned a group with nine members. These nine people are all different ages, races, gender, rates, and experience in the coast guard. The group quickly becomes a unified by participating in trust building exercise. One of them is the famous academy trust fall. These people become your support group while you are away from the unit and home. My group had a great sense of humor that helped get us through school work, and rough times. We regularly went out together to work on projects and socialize with each other. We carried numerous Chiefs Mess conversations thought out the five weeks of Chiefs Academy. On the weekends we would go out hiking together on the famous “group Stephens death
Work on myself professionally, marriage, and improve my leadership skills. I have met a group of people at the academy that have been there as my support network away from home, for the last five weeks. My group and instructors have helped me to get myself into a little better shape, by pushing me thru scheduled workout programs, and group physical exercise on the weekends “Stephens death march” on the weekends. I learned I can be an effective leader by explaining to junior members the big picture, and relating it to the younger generation. I truly enjoyed my five weeks at Chiefs Academy, and getting away from the world. To the academy staff “Ya’ll have a cool gig, gracias” Labori