Posted on Feb 16, 2023
If you could go back in your branch of service would you and why?
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If I could go back in the Marines I would. I would liked to be a Drill Instructor. I believe that I would have been a good mentor to the new generation.
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I Wish I Could ! But My I Am Too Old And My Body Is Too Broke To Be Effective.
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I would like to but not in the INF or MP's but maybe in Intel or small arm's. I think of all the thing's I miss mess hall SOS the main thing is just I miss an loved it.
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At the time and place where I spent the bulk of my enlistment and was as naive as I was then about what I was participating in? Sure. NAS Whidbey was a gorgeous station. As an AT in SEAOPDET based out of Whidbey, I had the good fortune of visiting multiple boats as I followed several squadrons around. Spending seven months aboard the TR in a restricted shop at the head of the A/C (it was so cold that I had to wear my coat, gloves, and winter head gear in the shop and sometimes even walk out into the hangar to warm up, which often resulted in people who were drenched in sweat below me giving me almost certainly envious looks), with its own gym equipment, and a spare space where we had a TV, video games, futon, microwave and other amenities gave me a somewhat somewhat unique experience. With only the shop personnel, captain, XO, and a few others having access to the shop, we weren't interrupted all that often. One of the other perks was that I was not allowed to be farmed out to do any of the crap jobs like galley work, laundry, watches, or anything else that would take me out of the shop because I was the only experienced tech on the boat that knew the gear that I worked on.
Of course, right about the time that I was up for re-upping the Navy was phasing out the Prowlers for a more modern (but already obsolete) EW platform that would have had me working on a Windows-based test bench that would have essentially turned me into a button-pusher instead of an actual troubleshooter. The choice was either change NEC to one of the already-existing NECs that used that bench or find a new job. Needless to say, the choice was pretty easy.
Of course, right about the time that I was up for re-upping the Navy was phasing out the Prowlers for a more modern (but already obsolete) EW platform that would have had me working on a Windows-based test bench that would have essentially turned me into a button-pusher instead of an actual troubleshooter. The choice was either change NEC to one of the already-existing NECs that used that bench or find a new job. Needless to say, the choice was pretty easy.
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