For our Veterans
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For our Veterans
Today marks my 5th anniversary of leaving active duty and its kind of a sad one. I miss the comradery of being out on cruise with the guys that you just cant get in the reserves. So my question is for the Vets in here. Do any of you wish you had stayed on active duty, even if it were just a 2nd hitch, or am I the only one?
As for why I don't go back active, its simple. I am partially blind in one eye and its hard enough to convince the reserves to keep me, so I know active would never allow me back. Besides, even if I could, I'd be giving up my crow(rank)
Mike
As for why I don't go back active, its simple. I am partially blind in one eye and its hard enough to convince the reserves to keep me, so I know active would never allow me back. Besides, even if I could, I'd be giving up my crow(rank)
Mike
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i was ARNG. i wish all the time i'd gone reg. especially now because i believe in our current cause. we can debate it all we want, but bottom line is I BELIEVE in it. i don't disparage reservist ever, but if i had it to do over......
by the way, thanks for your service
by the way, thanks for your service
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And many thanks to you too Carl. Its too bad that I hear people gripe that the military was the worst thing to ever happen to them. I guess where I was, life was pretty good! I was homeported in Hawaii when I was 19 and went out for 6 months and back home for 12. I guess my biggest problem was Hawaii itself. I got island fever and thought that the grass was greener on the mainland. I was very wrong!
And none of you should ever knock yourselves for just doing the reserves. You still did your part. Besides, look at what we have in the war now, alot of reservists and active intermingled as one great force.
So to all of you that did serve, THANK YOU.
Mike
And none of you should ever knock yourselves for just doing the reserves. You still did your part. Besides, look at what we have in the war now, alot of reservists and active intermingled as one great force.
So to all of you that did serve, THANK YOU.
Mike
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i look at it this way, i went in in 1980. had i gone reg. i may have kept 1 reservist out of the fray we find ourselves in now or at all. though i'm disabled now, i still feel i could have kept a kid safe.
many thanks to all that have done any service. much more to those that choose to go in now knowing what we are in for now!! you are heros or heroins in this house, now and always
many thanks to all that have done any service. much more to those that choose to go in now knowing what we are in for now!! you are heros or heroins in this house, now and always
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I served from 1965 to 1969, including a tour in Nam. I never even considered the idea of staying in. That was more than enough. I also had an offer to return to Viet Nam as a civilian with Alaska Barge and Transport because I knew the the rivers in the delta. Turned them down flat, even though the money was most excellent.
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Im in now, and love what I do, but i miss home too (central Illinois). I am considering making it a one term run.
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I know a few Middle aged people who wished they had stayed in the service because they would be retired/retiring soon.
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Kermit, If you are still in, I would say go for it! I thought the grass was way greener on the other side, but it was a mirage, it was really dead..lol. Besides, I see you have EAWS wings as your av, so obviously you are an Airdale. Take a shore duty if you can. And if you do get out, go back to school as soon as you can. I will be starting in a month, 5 years after I left active, and I should have done that sooner.
As for the middle aged thing, I like the idea of retiring when I am 39, but I pissed that one away!
And Carl, you really do sound like a gentleman and a scholar, glad youre on our side!
Mike
As for the middle aged thing, I like the idea of retiring when I am 39, but I pissed that one away!
And Carl, you really do sound like a gentleman and a scholar, glad youre on our side!
Mike
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I am one of those that did the 4 years from 89-93 in the Army and then got out. Was involved in the beach without water for 6 months in the 1st gulf war. And yes,I wish like hell I would have stayed in for at least my 20. I could retire in 3 years from now. the way things are going for me now,I will be working well into my 60's. And when I was in,I had a sense of doing something worthwhile,now I am just working at a barely fair wage to fatten the pockets of some corporate goon in North Carolina.
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i just got out a year ago, after serving 9 years in the Navy.
sometimes i think i should have stayed in, especialy since i picked up first class so fast and i was elgible for chief this year and they like a %50 advancment rate going for it.
but then again, i look at i got a good paying job, at home when i want, work from home alot, and get lots of vacation days, plus i have only one boss, my dad.
so all and all, i love the civilian life!!!!!!
but i do miss certain things in the military and miss the different people i meet. and the always feeling of doing something importsant in life.
sometimes i think i should have stayed in, especialy since i picked up first class so fast and i was elgible for chief this year and they like a %50 advancment rate going for it.
but then again, i look at i got a good paying job, at home when i want, work from home alot, and get lots of vacation days, plus i have only one boss, my dad.
so all and all, i love the civilian life!!!!!!
but i do miss certain things in the military and miss the different people i meet. and the always feeling of doing something importsant in life.
