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In this episode, Military Monkey shares his winding path from West Point to serving in the Army

for over five years. Here what happened on his birthday when he was stationed in Afghanistan,

when he thought an MBA might be a good

idea, and how he broke into a top-Bulch-Bracket bank as an associate with no previous technical

background. Also, pay special attention to how he approached his role as a post-MBA associate

in IB to be successful. Enjoy.

Military Monkey, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

It's great to be here.

So it would be awesome if you could just start off by giving the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Sure. So I was born and raised in western Pennsylvania and at an early age, really, I guess the crucible event was 9-11, but at an early age, I wanted to go into the military and serve

the country.

And that kind of led me to West Point, which was, which was once I got in, it was a no-brainer

to attend. I was very set at a young

age on doing that. So I did the four years of West Point and majored in civil, it was a combination

of civil engineering and then project management.

And then from there, I branched into the Army infantry and was at a number of military

bases, did the Ranger School thing, served in Afghanistan, and had a wonderful time.

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