PVT Mark Gomez.jpgPfc. Mark Gomez, 19

San Antonio

I joined the Army because “I knew I wanted to do something great and I knew
the Army would help me get there.”

“I imagined Basic Combat Training to be extremely tough and to an extent it was. The real challenge was mental.”

“The most challenging part about BCT was developing my own self confidence and learning to trust myself. I learned to have confidence in my abilities.”

My MOS is “35F - Intelligence Analyst. I wanted to choose an MOS where I would be constantly challenged and where the work would always be different.”