What is the worst part about being a service member or veteran?

Being damn good at your job in the service. Just not to be given a chance to do it in the civilian world. Unless you go to school that will teach you less than the schools you attended in the military. I feel many in management over look us veterans based on job security. They know we are structured in a way that management tends to come easy to us. That makes us a threat to their jobs. Even though that's not our intention. We just want to find our place.

Remembering the details of what happened and not being able to control pain is without a doubt the worst part. Having others who know what I mean and who share this...that helps. In the service there was order, in civilian world there is not.

Mine was trying to acclimatise to being around and working with civilians. All their thinking was the I,I,I me,me,me attitude. I was a foreman and my boss would get on me for getting my hands dirty working with my crew. I told him ya gotta lead by example. To this day I still have to learn to tolerate them. I got out of the Corps in 94 after 16yrs. I am now retired.

Life isn't perfect but serving shows you how to appreciate the little things which makes life more grand

Why invoke negative comments. It is a volunteer service. If you raise your right hand and take the oath. Do your time. If you don't like it don't reenlist. Pretty simple.

The worst things in my case was having what is now an ex wife that would g I stepping out on me when my unit was out in the field on maneuvers, that or she would go running home to momma and daddy. I never knew if she was going to be at our apt when I got back.
Then I would get letters from friends back home where she was going to Ione of the local bases t I the EM club and leaving with different sailors or marines. I finally divorced her due to her bs.
But like the saying goes, karma is a bitch, she got married to a sailor that was ships company. She complained I was gone all the time, well the sailor she married was gone m I re often and for months at a time.
Only other bad thing was, the first years of my daughter's life, she did not even know who I was.
Even with the ups and downs, I would do it all over again. Best damn experience of my life by far.

Every field has people who don't do their job or keep their promises - military, civilian, gov't, industry, business, etc. Bad bosses and military leaders make promises in the heat of a crisis that are easily forgotten when the pressure is off and the mission moves on. Good leaders though, even if they can't fulfill their promises because of circumstances beyond their control will likely suffer pains of conscience for the rest of their lives. Then, when such circumstances arise again make sure those they ask to do something know no absolute promises can be made but the consequences for everyone if the mission is accomplished.

Doing service for the worst people this country has so offer.