MST2 Anicia Hokanson: The Coast Guard's the only service that I saw that had a job [00:00:05] like marine science technicians have. Where you're working with the marine [00:00:10] environment and, well, the pictures looked really nice, it looked like you were going to [00:00:15] be out on a beach all day. Of course, nothing's always the same as you see in a book.
Ensign Brownie J. Kuk: I was [00:00:20] getting out of college. I wanted to work for the government in an environmental field [00:00:25] and they needed more experience than I had, so I decided to [00:00:30] go into the Coast Guard because it fit well. Marines, Army, Air Force, didn't have such [00:00:35] a great environmental field, so I wanted to come to the Coast Guard, do fisheries boarding, [00:00:40] and then go into another government position.
MST2 Anicia Hokanson: Just working in the marine [00:00:45] environmental safety field is what appealed to me and I knew I wanted to be enlisted. [00:00:50] Like I said before, I wasn't interested in going to school any more, which is [00:00:55] odd since I've been doing a lot of going to school in the Coast Guard. But, [00:01:00] you know, it was that specific job and the marine environmental safety really appealed to [00:01:05] me.
Ensign Brownie J. Kuk: My dad was Navy, so I talked to him a lot about joining the Navy. I did look [00:01:10] at the other services. The Coast Guard, though, I did go to the [00:01:15] training center, got to talk to a lot of officers there and see what kind of missions we do, [00:01:20] my fields that I'd be going into, can I go straight officer, or do I have to [00:01:25] go enlisted? I went enlisted route, got experience [00:01:30] as an enlisted member, and then applied for officer candidate school, got picked up [00:01:35] for that and went to the seventeen-week long training, [00:01:40] and then became an officer.
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