My name is Kameryn Hearld, my goal is to attend Fork Union Military Academy (FUMA). The purpose of this letter is to secure funding or sponsorship for 1 year as the bridge for postgraduate education. This sponsorship will allow me to attend Fork Union Military Academy and start my career with the United States Air Force, upon graduation from FUMA. I have received a scholarship however, I still need to get my tuition. Fork Union Military Academy is a private school which does not offer full ride scholarships or traditional financing as most Universities. My first crush wasn't a pretty girl, it was the United States Air Force Thunderbirds. Ever since I was young, aircraft have always been my fascination. I saw my first Airshow in Riverside California, when I was only 4 years old. It was at March Air Force Base. That's when I first fell in love with the Military. Watching aircraft fly low and fast with their engines splitting apart the sky held my attention more than my family sometimes and it gave me a solid footing in my life. I lived in Riverside for only 5 years. My Mother is a single Mother and was always the one who was working and away from the household. So most of my parenting in my toddler years was facilitated by my Grandma and Grandpa. I was homeschooled from 1 to 4 years old. When I was 4 Gigi (My grandma) applied for me to go to first grade instead of preschool and kindergarten. Jackson Elementary School was skeptical about my knowledge, so they made me take a state-approved test for skipping grades. Truth be told, I passed. And so began my life of academic achievements. After finishing first grade, my mother was blessed with the opportunity to change housing and move someplace else. All of our family was up in Nevada and with my Grandpa passing away Gigi wanted to be closer to her other daughter so that's where we moved to. Once I was in Las Vegas I attended Jesse D. Scott Elementary School for the rest of my duration in Elementary. The best thing about Elementary was the fact that I kept up my grades in all my classes and had nothing but A’s, this was due to the fact my mother and grandma had pushed me so hard into keeping up my grades even to the point I would stay up in the middle of the night to keep up with missing assignments. During 5th Grade, my Cousin Terry was playing Pop Warner football on the Green Machines. He invited me to come to play with him and my Mom paid for me to do so. Since I was so adamant on the military I was never properly exposed to sports. Playing Pop Warner football wasn't challenging and I didn't like it because the coach never really worked with me. Most of the time I was there I was a 2nd or 3rd string member and hardly got playing time. However, that was my first experience with competitive sports. When I graduated from Elementary my mother continued to push for me to do better, as such she applied for me to go to Hyde Park: Academy of Science and Mathematics for my middle school years. They accepted me and I attended the school for only half a year. I did so because I got bullied by 8th graders and beat up at the park. Due to this, my mother enrolled me into Online charter schools for 6th and 7th Grade with me going to Somerset Academy (Losee Campus) for 8th Grade. There once again my mental prowers was shined upon and I was selected to start 9th grade with 4 honors classes. After completing 9th Grade and transitioning back into online schooling due to the covid, halfway into 10th grade our house caught on fire. The place that I lived in for 8 years was burned down, due to a faulty refrigerator in our garage. Everything that we had was gone and we were homeless for 3 months. I spent most of my 10th grade living in a hotel until my mother got us a new house in Henderson. With that whole charade of the house fire done and dusted, my mom applied for me to attend Basic Academy for my 11th and 12th-grade years. Basic would have been my first exposure to a real public school since the 6th Grade. On the first day of school, I was pretty nervous about everything, my appearance, how others would view me, etc. I was pretty big (6’5ft) so I stood out a lot, and I didn't have any firmly developed social skills from the lack of being in a public school for 5 years. During my first lunch I was pulled aside by several staff members and the football coach, they wanted me to come and play football. I wasn't sure how I felt about that considering my last experience with competitive sports. At the same time, I recognized that they saw something in me that perhaps didn't see myself. Never in my life would I think accepting to play football would bring forth so much change in my character and my body. During the first season of football (11th grade) I was put on 2nd string a bunch and my work ethic with football wasn't that great as I spent more time cracking open the books. Not only that but I had to micromanage my time since I was also a part of MCJROTC. Speaking of MCJROTC, my Marine Instructor was a famous War Hero, Sgt. Major Bradley Kasal. Under his education, I began to learn what truly defines proper ethics and having a good moral compass. During both of my years at Basic (11th and 12th Grade), I took MCJROTC and played a role in the Marine Corps History Pageant representing the Marine Corps during the Korean War. Furthermore, he taught me what it means to be a Man, getting up and doing what others don't want to do, such as work, school coming to class on time, keeping up my grades, and playing football. Since I felt neglected by the coach and the rest of the team I wouldn't come to practice daily, doing so contributed to me staying 2nd string but I was too selfish to realize that. Eventually, the 11th grade ended and Summer came along. I was invited to come to the Summer Football training. Honest to God, I didn't want to go to summer football camp because I was still in my lazy mindset about everything. My mom who caught wind of the camp forced me to go to it even though I was already doubting myself thinking that I would be dead meat. On the first day of summer camp, I quit midway through the exercises, I deemed myself not mentally and physically ready for the camp because I nearly passed out doing stadiums. When I got home that day I had a long thought-out conversation with myself for about 3 hours just thinking about what occurred that day on the football field. After another talk with my mom, I realized that I needed to take more pride in myself and the legacy that I would leave behind. Im a Hearld, and the thing about is Hearlds is that we never quit, not when we get beat up, not when we lose out most prized belongings in a house fire and neither when we nearly pass out because we haven't done anything physically taxiing in a few weeks. Realizing this pride I would go back to the football camp formally apologizing to all the coaches and entire team for yesterday's behavior, I also promised that I never quit again on this team ever again. Something that I lived true by because I would attend every single morning training at 9am when it 100+ degrees outside and continue to work out. Not only that but after doing that for a month and half me and my team would go to SUU (Southern Utah University) to play for 5 days at their summer football camp against other teams. During this time we played a really close game (3-2) against the last year state champions of Utah’s high school football teams. During this, I really truly began to shine as I would receive praise from the coaches mainly due to how I would tear up the opposing offensive line and easily break through them. The main thing I still needed to tweak was my 3 and 4-point stances. During the school year I would come to learn that being an active member on the football team (Having moved from 4th string all the way to 2nd and 1st string special teams) that people would recognize who are more boys and girls alike. I got more socially comfortable at school and I could finally say that I had friends. I finished high school at Basic Academy of International Studies graduating with a 3.25 GPA and a College and Career Ready Diploma. Now its time for me to start my next journey but for that I need some money.
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