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Khieem Jackson - The Choice to Serve
From Change Starts Here · Hosted by Dustin Odham
Episode summary
In this episode of Change Starts Here: <p>“For me, education was something my mother always told me, ‘Once you have it, they can never take it away from you and that could be your golden ticket,’” he explained. </p><p>Jackson found out the hard way how a lack of funds can impact a student’s ability to pursue their career of choice.
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<p>“For me, education was something my mother always told me, ‘Once you have it, they can never take it away from you and that could be your golden ticket,’” he explained.</p><p>Jackson found out the hard way how a lack of funds can impact a student’s ability to pursue their career of choice. While studying to be an astronaut, he was forced to make the hard decision of finding a different major, which is when the military presented him with an option to still become a pilot — just in the marine…