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

Don't be so hard on my body. You'll pay for that later on in life.

Stay in the USAF and retire from the USAF

Remain on active duty and retire.

When you're in a strange new place you've never been in before, try to soak up all the culture and history you can from it. The experiences can make you well rounded and can do you good.

never marry

I would go a few months before my mom found out she had cancer so I could tell myself that we could treat it successfully without her going terminal. I would also tell myself to not smoke (a habit picked up in the military) because I'll need as much lung tissue as possible when COVID hits. I'd also give myself an almanac, back to the future style

The Navy is all right but you will do better in the Air Force. Your Dad was a 20 year man and retired from the Air Force. So go Air Force.

Choose a better career choice instead of Food Service Specialist and stay Active Duty instead of switching to National Guard. The reason is because I struggled a lot financially and is still struggling to get a decent career and decent pay that I desire so I can be financially secured instead of barely making ends meet living paycheck to paycheck.

Take that 20k reenlistment bonus and stay in... instead of getting out for 13-months and coming back in and getting nothing.

Stay in the Air Force and study harder. Lay off the sauce.