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Life-long Learning:

The Really Valuable Experiences in My Life

***** encounters new information, ***** experiences, and new situations every day. Life-long learning takes place in every person's life automatically in that new *****formation is encountered, but real ***** comes when we take what we experience, derive lessons from it, ***** apply those lessons in new *****, show*****g that ***** understand what we are learning. Learning ***** not very valuable if it is not applied, and as can be seen from this description, learning is an ongoing process. The best thing the student of ***** can do is take charge of this process and consciously learn and apply what is learned. From this experience, new lessons are learned, these are then *****, ***** so on. Having become more aware ***** ***** ***** myself, I can now see how important it is to remain ***** and to control my learning experiences ***** much as possible.

***** over twenty years, my working l*****e has been given over to the armed forces, which *****s me in a wide variety of situations quite different ***** ***** others might encounter. In addition, I have ***** exposed through ***** military service to a wide variety of jobs which allow me to *****arn new skills and apply them in ***** situations. At the present time, I am in the United States Military, ***** ***** plan to rema***** in the service for four more years. Currently, I have a position as XXXX for XXXX. Th***** means ***** ***** ********** the Strike Officer ***** preparation and dissemination the Tomahawk L***** *****tack Missile (T*****AM) operational task, weapons doctrine, strike plans, and training directives ***** ships in our battle group. As part of this job, I review TLAM exercises ***** recommend courses of action necessary to achieve and maintain proficiency in ***** delivery. ***** am also personally involved in the improvement process of ***** ***** future tomahawk weapon systems and tactics.

********** are a wide ***** of skills necess*****ry to accomplishing ********** tasks, and I have found ample opportunity ***** apply my learning in other situations. Of course, ***** ***** are very different from what I do ***** the military. Outside the military, I do not ***** any reason to develop plans for ***** systems or ***** conduct attack exercises. The ***** are transferable to civilian situations, however. For instance, just attending school for further study brings much of ***** learning on the job into play. The ability to analyze complex data, develop schedules ***** e*****thing from classes to *****s of *****, to synthesize ***** and produce reports readable ***** *****able by *****, to foresee problems and develop solutions--these are all aspects of the ***** I have in the Navy, and all ***** quite useful ***** the course of a d*****y in studying other subjects and in helping other students find material. When writing a report with a group for inst*****nce, ***** was able to offer good advice on how to attack the necessary job of searching through databases, which also means