I was in the U.S. Airforce

I left home at only 16 years of age. I went out into the world and found it very difficult for a young man without a good education to survive. After working several low paying jobs and moving from one place to another for about two years I decided that this was not going to work. I pondered over what to do to make my life better. I knew it would be impossible to go back home, as was NOT an option, so as many young men before me, I new that the militay was the only option I had left. BY this time I was living in California with a half brother who really wanted me out of his house, so one day I talked to a friend I had made about what to do with my life, he too was getting too old and also wanted to leave home and strike out on his own, so we decide to go talk to the Navy recruter together. Anyway, the next day we went into the Navy office in Santa Ana California and took the test to enter the Navy....we both passed! But there was only one problem, the quota was filled for the month so we were told we had to go home and wait to be called. Well I didn't want to wait and surely didn't want to go back home, so we walked around town talking to one another about what to do. As we were walking we saw the Army/Air Force Recruters office. Well you guessed it, we walked in and had a talk to the Air Force recruter. We told him what had happen and he said that he could use the same test for the Air Force and that he could have us both on a train to the Air Force training base in Texas within three days if we wanted to change and join the Air Force instead! This was great news to us, so we took him up on the offer and this is how I wound up in the U.S. Air Force.