Login & Share to Win! Given the chance to travel back in time, what advice are you giving yourself?

I would invest in Microsoft and Apple.

Invest in Apple and Microsoft.

Get your bachelors degree sooner and finish C&GS correspondence course.

I would tell myself to Not eat that dysintary ridden popcycle.

Stick with it. They can't eat ya.

Stay at Great Lakes for Boot Camp and work towards becoming a Warrant Officer.

I enlisted at 23 I would tell myself to enlist sooner.

Sucked it up and stayed in longer, if for only a few years. Then joined the Reserves afterwards to get retirement.

Don't smoke.

Jim you have accomplished everything you wanted since you joined the service. You have served with and learned so much from a long line of distinguished and accomplished NCO's and officers whom you now can call your friends. You have done well by following in their boot steps.

You graduated from your NCO advancement/Development courses way ahead of your peers and have received awards for doing so from your instructors and your family of NCO's. You do not brag. These accomplishments are fact. You graduated from the ARMY/NG Military Academy with honors twice. Once for your Primary NCO Course or PNOC and again for your Advance NCO Course or ANOC back to back This was unheard of back then.

You set goals for yourself that no one knew about. It showed in your service to others, your willingness to coach and teach others who didn't understand a subject matter that would surely make them drop the course. You spent hours at night teaching Land Nav/map reading with a plotting square and a flashlight to members of your training squad. You did this while a buddy helped you hone your skills at first aid and another helped you shine your boots which to this day you still suck at..............this was the way you helped your squad and they helped you graduate without leaving anyone behind.

I think I did OK follow my lead Jim and enjoy the ride brother.