If you had to join a different branch of the military which one would you choose?

Air Force, hands down...

I would probably do Navy but as an officer.

Well if I had it to do all over again (I retired in 1984 nearly 32 years ago) and could not go Navy, I would probably have gone Coast Guard.

I feel as if I did all five. I joined the Navy out of high school. During those years, I worked closely with and around the Marines (MEUs) we had assigned to my ships. Also, during those years, and in the twenty-five years that followed, I flew all over the US and throughout the world in Air Force planes. Those were some really good times. Like I said, after my Navy days ended, I joined the Army Reserves. When I spent five years of failing miserably to convince my MP battalion that a wall was a bulkhead and a floor was a deck, I transferred to what would prove to be the best service of all, the USCG. Everything that has been said on this post about this military branch is 100% true. Those last twenty years of my career were full of amazing adventures, fun times "on the beach," and a military service that truly was like one 35,000-member family. I never went anywhere that I did not know someone or that someone there was not good friends with a mutual member of the CG somewhere else. Meals with flag officers, INCLUDING the Commandant, were actually commonplace. And those that have mentioned the many gorgeous locations that we had CG Stations, you missed Destin, FL. Talk about died and went to Heaven beautiful. But when we worked, we worked very hard. Some duties were just plain deadly dangerous. Every service has those jobs. But in the Coast Guard, there's a very good chance you knew one or more of the Coasties involved. All in all, my entire military career was a very smooth and eventful ride, with the absolute best years coming during the second half!!!

I was in the Army then went Navy and retired. My next Choice was the Air Force

Coast Guard! Saving people and property sounds good to me!

I wanted to be a sailor from about 10 years old. I started college so that i could come in as an officer. Circumstances did not allow that. With the draft and the army breathing down my neck I went the navy recruiter and he managed to get me in to the navy. Ended up staying for over 28 years. I also earned a commission as A Chief Warrant Officer. The air force weenies could never figure out that a navy Chief Warrant Officer was a commissioned officer and every time I was on an air force base I ALWAYS experienced a degree of harrasment. Then was advanced to A Medical Service Corps commission. I was a Master Chief Petty Officer before initial commission as a Chief Warrant Officer. Being a master chief as well as being a warrant officer were very good gigs and being in the medical service corps was pretty good too.
if I could not have gotten into th navy I would have gone into the marine corps.

Navy or Army. But the grass always looks greener on the other side. Until you realize the grass is fertilized with shit.

If I had to do it again, I would have joined the Navy to begin with instead of starting with the Guard and Army.