Posted on Sep 7, 2019
"You don't know what you have until it's gone." In what aspects of your military career can you apply this saying?
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For me, it's leadership and mentors. While I have had some really awesome mentors that really helped me develop my leadership style, I had a PL who I didn't always agree with or fully understand and appreciate his leadership approach. Now that I am in a different CMF and have less than desirable leadership I realize how much I took away from what he was teaching me and my peers.
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For me, it was the camaraderie among soldiers. Best friends, people who would die for you and you them. I lost good friends in Vietnam, Granada and Desert Storm. Regardless of how hard you try, you can't develop the love and friendship in the civilian world like you do in the military. Some people will never understand it. I can call friends I served with 35 years ago and they'll break their back trying to get to me if I need them. You will never have that in the civilian world. You have acquaintances in the civilian world. You have brothers in the Military.
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That's the best way to sum up the brotherhood in the military 1SG! It's amazing to know you have brothers you haven't seen in forever but if the call is made they will rally to your location or die trying.
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1SG Frank Boynton
On Memorial Day, I visit 3 different grave yards and talk to friends no longer here. Over the last 4 or 5 years, I have 5 or 6 of my buddies around the US and we dial into a conference call while we are at different cemeteries and remember good times, and pay our respects to lost ones. We're getting fewer and fewer each year.
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My five year break in service. Would be retiring next year. Nope, five more years.
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I hope it's a quick, memorable 5 years. I feel like I'm in a slightly similar boat. I left active duty for a good reason but being in the reserves for 2 years and how this deployment is going, I'll have to make up an additional 2-3 years when I switch back over to active. Could've retired at 38 now it's going to be 40-41.
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SSG (Join to see) looking back at how fast the last 10 have flown by since I've been back in, it should fly by. And it will for sure be memorable. I hope it is for you as well.
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