Blog #5: Jerad Kent

For this blog I chose Jerad Kent. Jerad grew up hearing stories about the military from his uncle and grandfather, the stories made him want to join. After high school, Jerad went to college for a year, and then he realized that he'd rather join the military. Jerad joined the Marines, as a reservist.  Jerad was soon promoted to corporal, and then sergeant.  Jerad said, "My unit struggled financially, so we never deployed overseas, it was both a blessing and a letdown. While serving Jerad went to college and obtained his associates degree. After Jerad's service ended, he went back to school and got his bachelor's degree. Jerad now works for the Westminster Police Department, focusing on suppressing gang activity. 

Jerad's story relates to the concepts in   chapter 5 of the book Outliers in a way, because he join the police department to stop crime. Chapter 5 talks about all of the Feud crime that happened in Kentucky. The feud's were between families that got in arguments not only in Harlan, Kentucky but all over the state of Kentucky. The concept that I feel is being applied to Jerad, is that he want to help stop feud crimes. Gladwell talks about how he knows the generation, might be skeptical about him and says, "we want to believe we are not prisoners of our ethnic histories"