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

RE-enlist but reclassify into something like civil engineer or X ray tech.
Learn the meaning of and utilize the concept of ROI

Keep your mouth shut and your hand down!

Be careful what you wish for, and do not volunteer for anything

Study harder in high school. I was rather rebellious as a teen being a child of a broken home when such things weren't openly discussed. The military helped a lot and I turned out pretty well.

Upon reflection, I believe that I would have joined the Reserves instead of active duty. I have friends who have lived a good life serving in the reserves and was activated when required, and at the same time was able to pursue their secular careers and now are retired from both endeavors which affords them a more secure life. And yes, I should have invested more in technology.

Listen more than you talk.

It would be important to be more open minded, and to explore opportunities that fit my interests as well as those that provided challenges to help me grow, learn more and become more specialized in a occupational sense.

After we pulled out of Viet Nam we were treated like crap by civilians and our own I wish I had stayed in went back to school and tried to get a commission

Dear 19 year old Deon. Please don't marry her! She's beautiful yes, her body is a work of art, but she's an energy vampire! Don't sell all those Amazon shares you had @$32 a share!

Keep those monthly savings bonds until I retired.