 Jessica, what went into your decision to enlist in the United States Army? I actually wanted to be a kindergarten teacher. So from the age of five years old, I knew that that's what I wanted to do. I had always told everybody whenever they would ask me, what do you want to be when you grow up? Or anytime I had to write a paper about that subject, it was always I wanted to be a teacher. I always wanted to be my role model, which happened to be my kindergarten teacher.