MSgt James Parker 8061460 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div> 2023-01-02T10:15:57-05:00 MSgt James Parker 8061460

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2023-01-02T10:15:57-05:00 2023-01-02T10:15:57-05:00 SFC David Reid, M.S, PHR, SHRM-CP, DTM 8061463

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>This does not apply to me! I was focused on serving from day one!

2023-01-02T10:20:16-05:00 2023-01-02T10:20:16-05:00 Sgt Rebecca Zbichorski 8061464

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I would have probably become a single mother, depressed and living below the poverty line. I “chose the path less traveled by and that has made all the difference” -Robert Frost

2023-01-02T10:20:47-05:00 2023-01-02T10:20:47-05:00 SGM Mikel Dawson 8061468

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Never really an option. I knew from the start I wanted to serve, because I was privileged to be born in the best country in the world and needed to do my fair share, to give back for be so blessed

2023-01-02T10:22:57-05:00 2023-01-02T10:22:57-05:00 MSG Stan Hutchison 8061473

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Growing up I always dreamed of being either a cowboy or a soldier. In my teens I left home and worked cattle ranches in the northwest. After a few years I came to realize there would never be much money doing that, just a lot of hard dirty work, so I went for my 2nd choice. But I never lost my love for horses, so after I retired I started a horse boarding business and ran that for about 15 years along with working at, and then owning, a gun/saddle &amp; tack store.<br />Now I just enjoy my memories and travel some.<br /><br />I always tried to follow the advice of Yogi Berria:<br />&quot;When you come to a fork in the road, take it.&quot;

2023-01-02T10:28:13-05:00 2023-01-02T10:28:13-05:00 MSG Private RallyPoint Member 8061477

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Probably in some run down low income apartment while working some low end menial no future job

2023-01-02T10:32:33-05:00 2023-01-02T10:32:33-05:00 COL Randall C. 8061480

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I probably would have stayed in the tech sector, got a job with one of the &#39;Big Tech&#39; firms, bounced back and forth and up advancing my career, captured by the group think in the organizations and would now be one of those individuals prominently featured in the &#39;Twitter Files&#39;.

2023-01-02T10:33:54-05:00 2023-01-02T10:33:54-05:00 SSG Michael Noll 8061500

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Six feet under, pretty sure.

2023-01-02T10:49:20-05:00 2023-01-02T10:49:20-05:00 Cpl Vic Burk 8061534

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="1937567" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/1937567-msgt-james-parker">MSgt James Parker</a> With the way my life was heading, I probably would have done time in prison. At that point who knows but I sure wouldn&#39;t be the person I am because of my time in the Corps. It put me on the straight and narrow, no doubt.

2023-01-02T11:17:45-05:00 2023-01-02T11:17:45-05:00 SCPO Private RallyPoint Member 8061618

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Oh, I suspect I would be a retired nuclear astrophysicist who once played football and won ten Super Bowl rings. In retirement, I&#39;d be an undersea explorer with Woods Hole Oceanographic Society seeking to find the lost Atlantis. But I gave that all up to join the U.S. Navy so I could sail the oceans and find out how deathly miserable it feels to be seasick!!!

2023-01-02T12:04:44-05:00 2023-01-02T12:04:44-05:00 1SG Frank Peck 8061639

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I always wanted to join the service, played Army all the time when I was a kid. I was going to join the Army, until I got into Jr. high school, then I thought I would go Air Force, but realized I wouldn&#39;t be able to fly planes, then I thought I would join the Navy, like my dad, WWII vet, but they weren&#39;t wearing the cracker jack uniform. They went to the milkman uniform, like the Army Greens, but Navy looking. I finally decided on Marine Corps, because they had sharpest uniform. I turned 18 my senior year in high school, called myself off school, and enlisted in Marine Corps. The day I came back from MEPS, I was having a beer with my dad, and told him what I did. He said &quot; Goddamnit son I told you if you would of went Navy, you would have a clean bunk, and a shower every night, why you wanna be a glorified mud jock for&quot;. I said, &quot; I want to be in the best&quot;. Did my hitch, got out went to school on my GI bill, got a good job, but I missed it. Joined the Guard in 85, stayed until 2014, deployed a lot, now I am retired 1SG getting all the benefits. It definitely put me on the right path for life.

2023-01-02T12:28:05-05:00 2023-01-02T12:28:05-05:00 LTC Trent Klug 8061905

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I honestly don&#39;t know. I had no real direction set and was just living in the moment.

2023-01-02T16:29:44-05:00 2023-01-02T16:29:44-05:00 PO1 William "Chip" Nagel 8061919

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="1937567" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/1937567-msgt-james-parker">MSgt James Parker</a> Good Question! We Seem to be Yaking thanks to Capt Maggie Turner, CTO1 Brian Sudis, RM1 Dan McCabe and &quot;Maggie&#39;s Goon CTO1, KC, Casey!

2023-01-02T16:43:47-05:00 2023-01-02T16:43:47-05:00 SPC Chris Early 8062317

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Probably still working even more crappier jobs, lol

2023-01-02T20:20:51-05:00 2023-01-02T20:20:51-05:00 1LT Private RallyPoint Member 8062424

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Living in Arizona, married to my high school sweetheart and trying to make it in law enforcement...<br /><br />Really glad it didn&#39;t turn out that way. Uncle Sam has done right by me.

2023-01-02T21:35:15-05:00 2023-01-02T21:35:15-05:00 SGT Philip Roncari 8062504

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I would be one of two places,pissed in my pants blackout drunk,or dead.

2023-01-02T22:40:08-05:00 2023-01-02T22:40:08-05:00 SSG Roger Ayscue 8062511

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Living on a steady diet of government cheese in a van down by the river

2023-01-02T22:48:39-05:00 2023-01-02T22:48:39-05:00 SPC James Neidig 8062593

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Having Grown Up Around The Chesapeake Bay And Working The Water As A Kid , I Probably Would Have Continued Doing That.<br />I Did Become A Merchant Marine Between My Hitch In The Marines And The Army.<br />I Still Love The Smell And Being Around Salt Water.

2023-01-03T01:20:30-05:00 2023-01-03T01:20:30-05:00 CSM Darieus ZaGara 8063164

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I would like to believe that I would have been a lawyer, the truth is as an inner city youth in the 70’s I’d more than likely would be performing a labor intensive job at a mid level supervisory. <br /><br />I have always been a mentally strong, hard working loyal person but opportunities in my home city were lacking I the late 70’s. <br /><br />PROUD TO HAVE SERVED.

2023-01-03T12:08:06-05:00 2023-01-03T12:08:06-05:00 SSgt Private RallyPoint Member 8063322

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I would have had fewer scars, fewer friends, and a lot fewer stories.

2023-01-03T13:29:03-05:00 2023-01-03T13:29:03-05:00 MSgt Steven Holt, NRP, CCEMT-P 8063580

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Probably dead broke after having worked multiple dead end factory or fast food jobs. I &quot;MIGHT&quot; have made the jump to my current career in EMS/Fire but I doubt it. Most of the decision to pursue Emergency Medicine came from my experiences on active duty.

2023-01-03T16:41:24-05:00 2023-01-03T16:41:24-05:00 SFC Casey O'Mally 8065081

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I would probably be dead, honestly. My last job before I joined was (unbeknownst to me) a drug front. They got shut down while I was in basic. There is very low probability I would have avoided being swept up, so I likely would have ended up in jail with a record. Which would have cut out most career prospects. I had already failed out of college, so that avenue was likely over for me, too.<br /><br />Having a history of depression (which came back in a big way in my 40s), no prospects, no purpose, and no discipline? I would likely have met an early grave through either suicide or stupidity.

2023-01-04T15:06:07-05:00 2023-01-04T15:06:07-05:00 MSG Private RallyPoint Member 8065310

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Entrepreneur 100%. I&#39;m about to enjoy a RA/AGR retirement soon and plans are already in motion.

2023-01-04T17:26:04-05:00 2023-01-04T17:26:04-05:00 LTC Private RallyPoint Member 8065879

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I would probably live closer to the town I grew up in and make less money but I would be much closer to my family.

2023-01-05T00:23:06-05:00 2023-01-05T00:23:06-05:00 SGT Alan Martinez 8089070

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I would probably be in jail for trafficking narcotics. Or I would be dead be dead because I got in to deep.

2023-01-18T11:00:12-05:00 2023-01-18T11:00:12-05:00 SGT Alan Martinez 8089971

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>And Semper FI

2023-01-18T21:12:23-05:00 2023-01-18T21:12:23-05:00 CPL Sheila Lewis 8135701

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>working in a factory

2023-02-15T15:57:35-05:00 2023-02-15T15:57:35-05:00 SP5 Donna Brewster/Lopau 8142969

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Stuck in a small town working for minimum wage

2023-02-20T04:19:07-05:00 2023-02-20T04:19:07-05:00 MSG Chuck Pewsey 8146806

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I would probably be a crazy old batchlor prairie farmer, living with my dog, dying of the cancers that the Army medicial service diagnosed and treated.

2023-02-22T03:33:13-05:00 2023-02-22T03:33:13-05:00 SPC John Tsutsui 8187820

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>California State Prison. 6-10 years! JK

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