MSgt Joseph Amick

COMMUNITY MANAGER

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Joseph Amick: My name is Master Sergeant Joseph Amick, and I live in Punta Gorda, Florida. I was a Master Sergeant in the Marine Corps for 24 years. I retired, came back to my hometown, and I'm a successful business owner. I run five businesses, between real estate construction, computer business and nonprofit organizations. And I've been doing that along as a high school wrestling coach. I can definitely credit that--what I do now—to the Marine Corps because the Marine Corps, to me, in my mind, being 24 years as a Marine, is an outstanding and excellent place to obtain the leadership skills you need to be successful. I've just learned to become a good manager of things, prioritize things how they--how they need to be prioritized, and I just go to wherever the--pretty much the fire is, I guess you could say, and do that, what needs to be done, and get back on track and with enough time to still make it here to coach the high school team. My love for wrestling has taken me, I think, pretty far. If I wasn't wrestling, I was coaching somewhere. So wherever I was stationed, I was coaching in the high school programs, or I would form my own kids’ programs on the base and coach them. All my wrestlers, all the time, ask about the Marine Corps. I've even got a few that even tease me about it because--how they want to either be a Marine, or they couldn't do what I still do at the age of--at the age of 46, and kicking their butts still here in the wrestling room. But, yeah, they ask me all the time about the Marine Corps. Of course, they see the poster all the time, and they see the recruiters come to the school in the uniform. And what I tell them is, is it's kind of like wrestling. You know, it's a very, very disciplined organization. It's very particular. They definitely--all the time in practice, they call me the DI or the--or they know that I'm the Marine because I'm the one that's making them do certain things at certain times. Being a high school wrestling coach is just not about mold them as a wrestler. It's also mold them as young men for the future in general. Just about every wrestler that I've coached comes up and thanks you at the end of the year because pretty much they feel like they've learned a lot, not just in the wrestling room, but from us coaches. As far as leading the next generation, instilling values, it's just something that really feels good to be able to do something like that. And I get a lot of self-satisfaction and self-motivation from that. Since I’ve retired from the Marine Corps, I have pretty much accomplished everything that I want to have accomplished. I'm all about doing the right thing and doing a very good job at whatever I do. And the Marine Corps has instilled that with me over the years. Bottom line is, is that I have my children, my siblings, family and what I love to do, and that is coach wrestling. 00:02:51:20

Retired Master Sergeant Joseph Amick says his 24-year service in the Marine Corps has given him the leadership skills he needs to be a successful business owner and wrestling coach. He stresses the importance of discipline young recruits gain in the Marines.

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