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

I grew up to the music of Army artillery fire-my dad was a munitions test director for DOD at Jefferson and Yuma Proving grounds.When my turn came,I carefully considered what I wanted to do and weighed it against what I already knew,for the travel opportunities that I wanted,the Navy just made sense to me-no regrets

I went to every recruiter and did my homework before I chose the Navy. Having family in every branch except the Coast Guard helped me decide what was best for me. I enjoyed my twelve years because of the people I worked with.

I expected more from army basic training. I honestly thought I made a mistake by not going to the corps like my grandfather. However once I passed RASP I really did find a home and a place I fit in.

I didn’t know what to expect, but it was an adventure

I loved my time in the Navy. At first I had doubts that it was the right choice. But once I was through all the training and at my base it was a total fit. I think I would have struggled in the other branches. Now, where there days that I was like "I quit, I am a going over the fence!" and days where I was like "Sign me up for 10 more years woot!" But I bet everyone in every branch felt that way. My only regret was that I got hurt and got out before I felt like I was finished. But that's life, right?

I started in the Navy. I Did five years active duty as a corpsman. Later I wanted to cross rate into an aviation field but the Navy was not open to it so when my enlistment was up I crossed over to the Airforce. Now I am a C-5 crew chief and I love it. I do not regret joining the Navy and I am proud of my time in it and would have happily stayed if they had let me cross rate but it just wasn’t meant to be and I am equally as happy in the Air Force.

I was going Air Force, but having kids put the skids to that. I enlisted for 3 years, ended up staying 22.

I had the unique opportunity to serve in three (3) branches. Started as USN corpsman, then assigned to the USMC, then my best friend said we should join the USAF Buddy Program. I have nothing but the highest regards for them all. Each branch taught me ways to improve myself.

My father told me to join the Coast Guard, I joined the Army. I told my son to join the Air Force, or the Coast Guard, he joined the Army. I had a friend in England in the AF when I was in West Germany, when he talked about what he got fed, compared to what we got fed, lol. Can't say I regret it, but would have been interesting if I made the other choice.

I wanted Navy sea-bees but it the late 80's and they had a freeze on sea- bees so I went to the Army to see what they had that was close to the sea- bees. They told me combat engineer,I was loke what do they do? I was told they blow shitt up. That was all I needed to hear