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User: PseudoSkull

File: The Calling - David (2021).webm

Author: United States Army

Publisher: United States Army

Year: 2021

PD: PD-USGov

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Cat: Diversity, Propaganda film, United States Army

00:12

THE
CALLING

00:22

David Toguchi
I used to watch helicopters over my backyard in Hawaii. My dad was an Army Officer, so we lived on base. I loved hearing them start up and take off—the coolest thing in the world. But I knew I could never be a pilot. I wasn't like them.

00:43

DAVID

00:47

David Toguchi
I never considered myself to be a smart person. I struggled to keep up in class. Subjects like Math and Spanish were so hard for me. Growing up, my mother was in and out of the hospital for nearly a decade, before she passed away.

01:05

ANN M. TOGUCHI

APR 20, 1959
OCT 3, 2014

BELOVED MOTHER AND WIFE

01:07

David Toguchi
My older brother, Rob, helped to raise me. He eventually followed my father's footsteps into the Army, and I wanted to as well, just not as a helicopter pilot. >/b Then, during a long road trip with Rob, he told me to pursue my true dream. >/b "But I'm not pilot material", I said. >/b Rob was done listening to my excuses. So, finally, I decided to stop making them. I gave myself permission to dream, and refocus my life around this goal—training myself to pay attention; visualizing myself in the cockpit of an Army helicopter; I even created something called a "vision board," listing my goals.

02:02

DEBT FREE

BECOME A
PILOT

GET A 3.6 GPA

TRAINING
ROUTINE

02:03

David Toguchi
I had little chance to achieve them all. But I gave my all, and made them happen. It doesn't take a genius to become an Army pilot. It takes time and effort. Now, every time I put my helmet on, I feel like I'm dreaming. And I can't imagine doing anything else.

02:32

David Toguchi
I'm U.S. Army First Lieutenant David Toguchi, and I answered my calling.

02:37

TOGUCHIU.S. ARMY

02:38

What calls you?

02:44