Please describe who or what influenced your decision to join the Army. Like most others, there were several reasons for enlisting. One of the first reasons was my brother (really my cousin but he was my brother for all intents and purposes) was a Marine from 57-59 serving in a ship’s detachment and as a 10-year-old the picture of him in his Dress Blues just stuck in my mind; I just had to follow in his footsteps. Now not wanting to appear to be looking for sympathy, probably the biggest reason...