When you were young, what was it your dream to do when you grew up? Did the military help, hinder, or change your mind about this dream?

I actually remember a reservist, female, two houses down from when I was maybe 10-12 years old. I wanted to be like her. I wanted to join the service. It wasn't until I was 33 years that I joined Active Duty Army. 9-11 hit me hard as a civilian; seeing all our troops over there; I wanted to be there.

When I was really young I wanted to be a train engineer... That has not happened. However, I did get to drive an actual Army locomotive on Fort Bragg during a rail head a few years ago... albeit ~50 feet with instructions of an actual locomotive engineer. As I got closer to 18 and even today, all I really wanted was a wife and family with an honorable job to support the lot. I got that. I have no complaints. However, I still want to drive locomotives. Ask this question in 10-20 years mate.

edit: misspelled "not" of all things.

At first, I was like almost every kid in that I wanted to be a doctor. As I got older, that feeling changed. Then, after all those years of watching John Wayne movies and GI Joe cartoons, I knew the military was my path to be. And even though I had changed my mind about being a doctor, my first MOS in the Army was that of Medic. Just a little bit of irony.