I have had both good and bad experiences during my service that changed/ shaped my life. One is being able to see the different types of leaders. Being in the military you have people of different rank in charge of you. And these people have helped me become the leader I am today. I know exactly what I don't want to be and exactly what I want to be as a leader because of all the different examples. I also was taught in a terrible way in my eyes that not everyone will like you and you don't need to like them to get the mission done. With this I mean in one of my commands my whole "in shop" command was racists they hated the fact that black people were in the military. Regardless of all the games and misconduct that happened in the shop things still needed to be done and I didn't let the thoughts of others change how I looked at the Marine Corps as a whole. My Afghanistan deployment wasn't hard but as a junior Marine I was responsible for a lot of important things that could have affected lives of many people. In this whole deployment I learned to deal with stress, life, and other things while staying focused on what I needed to do. It made me believe in myself more.