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This is for any enlisted SM who re-up'ed after your first contract ended or any officer that stayed after their initial ADSO was over.
It is specific to that second term of reenlistment or that 1-2 years after you could have left - you chose to stay. Why?
What made you stay - especially if you thought you were only in for one term? Was it a mentor? An awesome job?
And the opposite for those of you that got out - why didn't you want to stay? What could have changed your mind?
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It is specific to that second term of reenlistment or that 1-2 years after you could have left - you chose to stay. Why?
What made you stay - especially if you thought you were only in for one term? Was it a mentor? An awesome job?
And the opposite for those of you that got out - why didn't you want to stay? What could have changed your mind?
Invite others to respond by typing @name
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Posted 9 y ago
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If not me then who?
It felt like an important job
It was fun
When those three things ended at 28 years I pulled the plug.
It felt like an important job
It was fun
When those three things ended at 28 years I pulled the plug.
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Thanks, SGM. We hear so much about talented jr NCOs and LTs/jr CPTs getting out.. wondering if there's something we could do to change that. Or if these leaders just want something that can't be offerred (frequent deployments, faster promotions, etc).
I thought I was going to get out when I my obligation was up at four years. I'm about to hit eight. Nowhere near your 28 years, but I love it. I think me sticking around has been tied to doing relevant work in combat units and having two great bosses I admired and wanted to work for. Think it's the same for most?
I thought I was going to get out when I my obligation was up at four years. I'm about to hit eight. Nowhere near your 28 years, but I love it. I think me sticking around has been tied to doing relevant work in combat units and having two great bosses I admired and wanted to work for. Think it's the same for most?
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My Drill Sergeant dropped me into a pool of awesomeness and badassery, I couldn't just leave :)
My Drill Sergeant dropped me into a pool of awesomeness and badassery, I couldn't just leave :)
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SGM I think we all had a drill sergeant like that. I had a squamate at basic who grew up on Okinawa (father was a marine) and I studied Japanese in high school. The two of us bitched and moaned about everyone and everything, confident that nobody understood a word we were talking about.
We were wrong. After graduation, one of our drill sergeants about whom many such bitching sessions was directed grabbed both of us in a headlock and dragged us behind him as he told us, in rather excellent Japanese that they only reason he didn't rip our arms from their sockets was because seven years earlier he and a squamate made it through basic training doing the exact same thing.
He then took us to the NCO club and bought us more than a few beers.
We were wrong. After graduation, one of our drill sergeants about whom many such bitching sessions was directed grabbed both of us in a headlock and dragged us behind him as he told us, in rather excellent Japanese that they only reason he didn't rip our arms from their sockets was because seven years earlier he and a squamate made it through basic training doing the exact same thing.
He then took us to the NCO club and bought us more than a few beers.
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I re-enlisted because I had duty station of choice which I chose Germany. Well that led to the Clinton Balkan Vacation Package which I did not see much of Germany though I saw some of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia, and Italy. Plus a few touchdowns taking the DC-9 medevac back to Germany. I re-enlisted again to come back to the states and again had duty station of choice.
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SGM Mikel Dawson
That was a great vacation package, I did it as well. It was fun doing tip toe through the mine fields - literal ones and political ones!
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