What did you do in the days and weeks afterward when you left the service?

Ugh I gave myself no downtime did not even take leave before I got I went from being in the army to being in classroom on base the next day.
Biggest mistake ever totally burnt myself out.

I assumed my post army career and moved on. I also took 90 days terminal leave which helped greatly in the transition from military to civilian life.

At 20 years old, in 1972, It was...wait for it..epic!. A month and a half latter, I went to a bar, 5 minuets before I turned 21; I waited 2 minuets, before 2400HRS and I finally got served. I mostly dodged people, asking the "Baby Killer Question"! I did, a few times, go visit my old First Sergeant, who just transferred back to the states....God was telling me some thing.

Signed up for Pensions and Compensations evaluations at the VA.

I retired from the USS Independence stationed in Japan. We flew back to the States, and tried to decide where we wanted to settle. We went to a couple of different places, in different parts of the country, before settling near my wifes family. Since I still had to be actually discharged, I went to Great Lakes and was discharged, and started sending out resumes and looking for a place to live,

I had a job lined up before I left Fort Leonard Wood, got back to Minnesota on a Friday and started working on Monday.

I was angry that Americans didn't know the enemy. I was attacked by CAIR at one point in my deployment and came home to fight them along with to try and make Americans wake up to Islam and the dangers it posed for America. I joined ranks with Joe Kaufman, Daniel Pipes, Bridgette Gabrielle, Steven Emerson, Frank Gaffney and many others who were out there telling Americans about the enemy and CAIR.

I still do a lot of political articles, posts and talk on my local Talk Radio about the dangers of Islam, so glad Trump understands it. Finally after about a year home and my anger at the American people for not understanding the enemy, I realized it was because they didn't know, I went back to work as an RN.

I took the summer off, caught up with old friends who had a ton of questions. Spent time with my Mom and saw my brother a Vietnam vet. We talked smack to each other. Then I had to come back to reality and find a job and start a family and my life. The VA was helpful in getting me a job but not much use for any medical issues I had, but thats ok because if I don't have a body part falling off or risk bleeding out I don't go to doctors anyway. I think it has to do with the term "practice."

The day I was supposed to be discharged 19 may 1966 I was still in Vietnam. I got bumped off a flight, since my name started with a B I was at the top of the list. I got discharged from the Army 2 weeks late "convience of government" they said. I got paid extra for each day over my discharge date but they charged me for meals and living in the barracks. It come out about even. Anyway I went to work for General Motors . I was a millwright for 35years. I had only been married about 8 months so I needed a job. I figured I could always go back into the military if I had to. I stayed at GM. because the pay was better and nobody was shooting at me. Semper fi.

ETS'd active on my Birthday, took leave, got'ta job falsifying local, state, federal records reducing toxin ALDRIN in protection of Tucson aquifer, but was too brain dead to keep doing it. God knows how many Tucsonans are dead of cancers by ALDRIN.........if it is toxic, we can count on leadership to bring it to market. Example, hydrofluorisic acid of Cargill corporation Florida that is found in toothpaste, mouthwash, and water supplies. It causes cancer, bone loss, enamel loss, sterility, lowers I.Q./intelligence, causes apathy, and most importantly makes people amenable to brainwashing and control. Government leaders love those last side effects. No wonder so many U.S. citizens believe they live on a spinning ball globe and that NASA cartoons are actual photo reece.....pride always goes before a fall and many are proud of neo-Nazi 4th Reich NASA. Q: If US citizens are very proud of NASA so-called outer space exploration, how come so many cheat on their voluntary political chattel IRS taxes ?

Aldrin is classified as an extremely hazardous substance in the United States as defined in Section 302 of the U.S. Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (42 U.S.C. 11002), and is subject to strict reporting requirements by facilities which produce, store, or use it in significant quantities. An IDLH limit has been set at 25 mg/m3, based on acute toxicity data in humans to which subjects reacted with convulsions within 20 minutes of exposure.