Posted on Dec 15, 2015
Have you ever thought you should have enlisted in a different branch?
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As the anniversary of my retirement approaches, I've been reflecting on my time as a service member. I loved my time in the Air Force and wouldn't trade the experiences for anything in the World. Each service component is a vital cog in the DoD machine and they do that very well. One theme seems to keep popping up in my memories. Several times over the last few years of my service I was told I was to “gung-ho” for the Air Force and “Hey Sgt Holt, this isn't the Army or Marines”. It got me to wondering, would I have been a better fit in another branch? Has anyone else ever had thoughts similar to this?
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Only once. When I was at Benning my brother who was in the Air Force was at Tampa Bay. Went down and spent a weekend with him. Being in the Air Force had never crossed my mind until we went into the mess hall to eat.
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SGM Mikel Dawson
Oh yea, that famous Air Force mess hall. No matter where they go, they fly in that mess hall!! I'll never for get in Kuwait I was sitting in the sand with the Army, went to the Air Force mess hall I thought I was back in Germany!
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CSM Charles Hayden
SGT Patrick Reno Did you every eat at ?NAS Yuma at 2 AM? Cheerful cooks, good food and they all tried to please at that, before '0 dark thirty time' !
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SGT Patrick Reno
Some how I don't think the Air Force ever had to eat Green eggs out of a marmite can in the rain and mud.
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As a young man, I came very close to joining the Navy. I was all about wanting to be a Nuc on a submarine.
Life (OK, a girl) got in the way, and by the time I decided I still wanted to join, the proverbial ship had sailed.
Life would have been very different if I had gone the other way.
Life (OK, a girl) got in the way, and by the time I decided I still wanted to join, the proverbial ship had sailed.
Life would have been very different if I had gone the other way.
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PO3 (Join to see)
... weird ... I was the opposite ... I was trying to get into Army ... and come my wife stopped me ... now I am in Navy .... weird ..
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SN Greg Wright
1SG (Join to see) Your confidence in your ability to become a Nuc says a lot about you, 1SG. The Navy missed one.
Besides, who wouldn't wanna be called 'Master Chief' over 'Sargent Major'!?
*Runs*
Besides, who wouldn't wanna be called 'Master Chief' over 'Sargent Major'!?
*Runs*
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