If someone asked what could you have done differently in your military career, what would you have chosen?

i would've done ramstein differently. tried harder,saved up alot of money

I beat myself up for not re-enlisting after I got married. We talked about it and I just never went down to do it. I would have been retired in 1997!

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I would never have left the Air Force for the Army. I may not have been able to commission as quick as I did (non tech degree), but at least they would still be paying me and I would still be able to retire from the service. No one should have to go through what my family has had to endure for the last 15 or so years. No one. This includes the US Army refusing to acknowledge my commission, my mother pulling her hair out trying to understand the situation (she pinned me at Benning), my uncles (who were all in the military) getting frustrated and angry due to the US Army's attempt to reneg on their contract, my wife and children's disbelief, and the ABCMR refusal to even address the situation when it was posed to that entity.

I would have wanted to be a Warrant Officer. I failed by few points going to OCS school & they wanted me to take my Morse Code over so I could go. But wasn't interested until I met one in Germany. Wow. To start over that would be my choice.

Would tried to stay in a few more years.

I had a line number for E-5 but the President put the military in check and said the Military had a duty to repay the cost of the war. Okay, I was pissed. My orders to Korea were red-lined, sewing on E-5 red-lined, killed all pay raises, offered me to reenlist and go to Minot if I wanted to stay in! I decided against the reup and ended my career at 4-years, 3-months, and 21-days. I would have rather stayed but I felt they wanted us out (1977).

I wouldn't have gotten caught kissing that E-3 Mess Specialist (yes, female, early co-ed ship) in the Mess Management office.

I would have chosen to remain silent. My biggest regrets were not my own decisions, but the ones forced on me. The choices I couldn't avoid, which put me in the positions I hated the most. Taking a man out of combat arms, as a Tank Master Gunner, and forcing me into recruiting, to serve under some very obvious stolen valor motherfuckers, and then have your career trashed because they were offended that they were caught? In the end I came out on top, but I never should have had that battle.

msgt (now Rev.)Ed Dayton Absolutely nothing! As far as I'm concerned it was win-win