What's the biggest lesson you learned during your time in service? Why was it so important?

Don’t offer your opinion unless asked - week 1 of my first duty assignment! Now it’s - would you like it with or without sugar on top, as too many feelings get hurt these days... I leave them with the choice!

Even though I’m a cadet and that doesn’t count as service time, I learned that rank does not beat experience. Your rank and pay might be higher up on the totem pole, but there’s never a circumstance that you can’t learn from those who have done what you wish you could.

Work ethic.

Those who hire veterans say they do so because of our work ethic. They know we were are dependable and that we get stuff done; results, not excuses.