Chapter Ten
A Good Choice
Art had only been on an airplane one time before, when his father took him to Alaska to visit his uncle. Now nineteen, he still enjoyed flying like when he was thirteen years old. Riding the bus from the airport to the SEAL training facility, Art looked forward to many new experiences.
Always competitive, and being the oldest in his fatherless family, Art also blossomed into a natural leader. Because of his family’s circumstances, he always looked out for the welfare of his siblings.
These traits would earn him the love and admiration of his classmates. To a man, as they went through the training, they knew that Art Jackson had their back and that they could count on him.
Art thrived in SEAL Basic Conditioning. Throughout a program designed to weed out those
