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• How and why did you enlist in the Navy?
• Where and when did you serve? In what capacity?
• What challenges and hardships did you face?
• What is one of your fondest memories? One of your most difficult?
• What lessons did life at sea teach you?
• How do you think the experience of life at sea has shaped (or will shape) you in later life?
• What would you most like people to understand about Navy life?
• What do you think are some misconceptions about Navy life which you’d like to help correct?