Was choosing your branch of service everything you thought it would be? Did you expect more or less?

I had 2 grandads and an uncle in the Army, but I wanted to join the marines, but I was disqualified for my tattoos. I’m enjoying the Army so far regardless

So far so good.

Honestly I expected more I served in the 101st Airborne, which I was told that they were the most deployed unit in the army and I was with 3 BCT RAKKASAN which I was told that was the most deployed brigade in the army and I never got deployed my entire time I served. Maybe it’s a good thing but I wanted the experience.

I knew within 6 Mos the Navy was the right choice.

OSC (SW)
USN ret

I first went to a Navy recruiter, not sure why I always got sea sick. To be honest, I didn’t believe a word he said. Then I went to the Army, and he didn’t promise me the Sun, Moon and Stars, and I was pretty satisfied with what he had to offer. I got a lot more than I bargained for, a lifetime of being a soldier.

I served in the US Navy USS Harry S Truman and in the US Army. I wished I would of joined the US Coast Guard. But it all depends on your MOS or Rate. Each job has a certain school that each branch exceeds on for example Police Army, Firefighter Air Force, Air Traffic Controler Air Force or Navy. Then it’s all depends on how you want to live. Tents Army and Marines, like sardines Navy and Coast Guard. Taj Mahal Air Force. This is just my opinion.

Don’t really know what I expected. My family had history of Naval service. I enlisted for the nuclear field and served onboard nuclear submarines. Six years and out.

If I wasn’t such a boneheaded dick in the Air Force I’d be SrA or SSgt right now working hard to make pilots safer in the air and on the ground. However, my lack of ability to be respectful and follow directions led to my ineffectiveness and eventually my discharge. This will never waver my decision to Enlist in the Air Force. Hooah

I choose it for the best option in my time in service.

Indeed, it was. Much of the influence on choosing the United States Navy was derived from my father, who served in the Navy during WWII and again during the Korean conflict. As I was growing up, he often told me stories about the far away places he visited, and the simple quiet beauty of the sea at night. While in high school, I made Navy enlistment my goal at graduation. Coming from a small farm area of Northern New York State, there were no good choices, so many of my high school classmates entered one military service or another. In twenty-four years' active duty I was able to achieve advancement through enlisted & officer grades and to retire with a graduate degree.