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“I wanted to broaden my horizons. The Air Force was just my stepping stone.”
A “chameleon” who often changed her look, Alexis reveals she once shaved her head, wore a mohawk and went through her “goth stage.” Sometimes she would go to New York to party with other club kids.
She saw the military as a way out of her small town.
“I just felt suffocated there,” Fawx says. “There was so much more to see, do, feel... And I didn’t think that was going to happen there.
“I wanted to broaden my horizons. The Air Force was just my stepping stone. I wanted to live on my own. I moved out of my house while I was still in high school.”
Alexis considered each branch of the military before deciding to join the Air Force.
“The Air Force was just really more appealing to me than any other,” she says. “I just did it. I didn’t tell my parents until after the fact.”
Fawx completed basic training and then went to Air Force Tech School, graduating at the top of her class.
“And that was the first time I was like getting straight A’s,” she says. “I didn’t apply myself in my high school. I found it boring.
“I think the military was really good for me for instilling confidence, being able to make decisions logically, thinking things through a little better.
“Logistics are my thing. I love planning. And it just really helped as a young person that needed it.”
Fawx tells AVN she was stationed in North Dakota for the majority of her time in the Air Force and then she moved to Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., where she was discharged six months early because her father passed away and she had to help take care of her family.
“And I was ready to be out,” says Alexis, who was enlisted for three-and-a-half years. “I felt like I got the foundation and what I wanted to get out of the military and I was ready to embark on my next adventure, which was, I wanted to go and be a college student.”
She transferred from a college in North Dakota to Baltimore, where she studied at the University of Maryland before landing at Towson State.
Fawx says even though her initial focus was Dietetics, she earned her degree from TSU in Physiological Psychology with a specialization in Neuroanatomy because her previous college didn’t have a Dietetics program.
“Basically, how the mind and body work together,” she says.
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