We lived around the corner from each other, and became best friends. He was an incoming Freshman, and I was an incoming Sophomore at Lubbock High. We became inseparable, and we both got really involved in the ROTC Program in high school

She graduated from Lubbock High in 2016, and left for U.S. Marine Boot Camp on July 4, 2016. Graduated Boot Camp in December 2016, finished training, before landing in her first duty station in Jacksonville, NC at New River. He graduated with Honors from Lubbock High the following year, and moved to NC to be with her. They lived in a REALLY small, quaint apartment, and after Christmas, on January 3rd, they purchased their first new home, where he kneeled on one knee, and proposed to her on the front porch of that new home!