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

Pay attention to your drill instructors because if you ever end up in combat you will appreciate the rough time they gave you to stay focused.

Don't go to that last Kegger before shipping out from MEPS...

Copy every page of your service jacket and health record.

Listen to my Elders!

If I had the opportunity to go back in history and tell myself to make a different decision, I am not sure that I would take that opportuity. Here is the reason why. If I changed any of my decsionions in my past I would not be here today as I am today. I have given that a great deal of consideration over the last 60 plus years. With that stated I have often thought that I would not help my truck driven at Elmendorf AFB offload the non-functioning forklift. That decison to help him cost me my right leg and my Air Force career. Of course there are many many other decisons that I have made that have changed the course of my life. Only God knows where those different decisions would have led me. Sgt. Frank E. Hupp, Retired, DTM

While I can think of all sorts of things that I wish I'd known as a young man, the fact remains that I'm quite happy where I am now, with my marriage and where we live, etc., and if I changed anything in the past, I'd be somewhere else now. It might be even better, but it coiuld also be far worse. Hence, I'm wouldn't say a word.

God got you this far. Do your best. The past is behind you. You own the future.

Keep your mouth shut and pay attention.

If not the military in general my specific MOS, 74F. As a computer programmer back in the 1980 it was an awesome thing. Seeing those mainframes in movies, I was loving it. Sad to say, that wasn't the case. The army had , at the time "canned programs" thats what commercial software was called at the time. If you found a bug in it you could not touch it, of try to fix it. You had to write the software developer because it was an Army wide problem, not a local problem. My first go through wasn't that exciting. All the other combat stuff was amazing to me. Getting in a chopper, looking straight down when the chopper goes on its side, having the side of your body numb from the force of the air was better than any movie I had ever seen. Going in a landing craft towards a beach was just like being In The movies without the bullets overhead. I wouldn't trade My experience for the world. Outside of my MOS, it was amazing. With many sleepless nights. The adrenaline rushes, the long days, the seven days a week, 20 hour work days. I have to say, I really miss it. Crazy, but I do.

Success = 1/2 Knowledge + 1/2 Experience + 1/2 Common Sense
This is the only time in your life where 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 = 1