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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:00:32 PM EDT
[#1]
I'd have stayed in. The job was fine.
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:01:04 PM EDT
[#2]
Infantry?
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:01:59 PM EDT
[#3]
wouldve stayed in...job was awesome
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:03:31 PM EDT
[#4]
I'm sorry to say this but, Cincinnatus, changing your avatar is just blasphemy. |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:03:58 PM EDT
[#5]
I dont mind what I do but I kinda got to itch to become a MP
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:05:02 PM EDT
[#6]
Really? How come? I thought I needed a new look.  |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:05:35 PM EDT
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I wouldn't have done anything different - I would have stayed in except for the actions of one Army O-6 who needs to spend some serious time in jail.
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:06:25 PM EDT
[#8]
would have got in earlier
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:06:32 PM EDT
[#9]
 Can't recognize you right off the bat! I've actually got to be not lazy and look at your name!  |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:06:42 PM EDT
[#10]
I don't think I would of been a radio operator for a infantry unit again. That prc-77 was a heavy bitch after a long hump and RO's didn't have a good survival rate in combat also.
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:06:44 PM EDT
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I retired from the army 10 years ago. If I could, I'd still be on active duty. The smell of diesel exhaust in the motor pool, the FTXs, running PT at oh-dark-thirty, getting drunk and chasing German pussy...
Hell yes, I'd do it again!   
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:08:04 PM EDT
[#12]
I echo the sentiments about staying in. Those experiences cannot be had by any other profession.
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:09:41 PM EDT
[#13]
Yeah, but you really didn't have much choice. An RO is placed in that position. Personally, I picked my BEST troop to be RO. |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:10:13 PM EDT
[#14]
Be patient.
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:10:35 PM EDT
[#15]
+1 that's a ten on the rogometer! |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:11:17 PM EDT
[#16]
16 yrs in and lovin' it! The only thing I would have done differently, is I wouldn't have volunteered for recruiter duty....some of the people I've had to deal with have soured my outlook on todays' youth.
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:12:41 PM EDT
[#17]
Yes but damn glad I don't have to go through it again.
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:12:52 PM EDT
[#18]
Yeah but over time you get used to looking at an avatar and think, "...hey, that's Cincinnatus!"
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:13:50 PM EDT
[#19]
On track and wouldn't change a thing.
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:14:25 PM EDT
[#20]
Roger that. There are a few things I wouldn't want to endure again. Like the Buddy Rappel in Mountain phase of hooah school. |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:16:30 PM EDT
[#21]
Well, you're an exception to this thread. I think you definitely picked the right MOS and represent it well. I look forward to your military expertise in the HoH threads. Keep up the good work, hooah!  |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:16:49 PM EDT
[#22]
Job, no. Preparation beforehand, yes.
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:18:11 PM EDT
[#23]
GRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNT
GRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNTGRUNT Ya, you betcha. I would have gone active sooner and done more stuff, but I had a ball and am proud of what I accomplished. I can't imagine not having been a US Army Infantry Soldier. Shit where else beside Arkansas can you say you were proud to have been a Hog Humper? 
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:18:41 PM EDT
[#24]
Having met you - I'd say you'd have fared quite well.
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:19:42 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:19:53 PM EDT
[#26]
A man with true spirit! Follow Me! |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:20:12 PM EDT
[#27]
Wish I wouldve gone combat arms, nothing but envy for those guys even though Ive had my share of hooah moments.
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:21:05 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:21:44 PM EDT
[#29]
I would have stayed in longe.
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:22:11 PM EDT
[#30]
That's what I've heard most. Thanks for wanting to do more!
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:22:48 PM EDT
[#31]
+10 Me too. |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:23:58 PM EDT
[#32]
I would have gone Infantry.
One of the biggest regrets in my life was not going Infantry. |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:24:54 PM EDT
[#33]
Yes sir, but you still hold the nobility of being a combat vet! Thank you for your service! |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:25:53 PM EDT
[#34]
No. I would have gone USMC rather than USN. Not a slam against my beloved Navy, but I think I would have had more fun... |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:26:23 PM EDT
[#35]
I would have picked armor first instead of infantry, or at least tried for a posting at a mech unit instead of light. Would have had more of a chance to have gone to the Gulf if I had.
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:26:55 PM EDT
[#36]
I would have applied myself better in college, but being in the military is good, God has blessed me and my family, all thanks to Him. I will probably retire at 20.
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:28:07 PM EDT
[#37]
I believe you would have. But I know a combat Navy vet of the Korean conflict who elevated my appreciation for you Navy boys. We need ya'll. |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:28:44 PM EDT
[#38]
lol - and a lot less humping! |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:29:26 PM EDT
[#39]
Thank you for your service! |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:33:36 PM EDT
[#40]
 Too true! |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:35:14 PM EDT
[#41]
Ignore it. Seriously. I have been an air support operation operator and an MP doing LE work. MP duty sucks. |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:37:05 PM EDT
[#42]
When I was a weapons loader... I didn't dig the Air Force that much. But had I not been a 2W1 I would have never found out about being a Gunner on H60's .
Yeah, I wouldn't change a thing... |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:37:45 PM EDT
[#43]
If I had it all to do again and could chose I would have been an air defense operator instead of air support.
I also would have kept extending in the far east. |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:39:49 PM EDT
[#44]
Would have enlisted before going to West Point.
would have gone infantry straight off instead of engineers. Other than that, Regrets, I've had a few. But, all in all, too few to mention |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:48:07 PM EDT
[#45]
Well, that too...but to be honest we choppered around a lot more than we humped. I just felt like tits on a boar hog with all my friends from college in armor, mech, ADA and hell, even MP units over in Saudi and Kuwait while I defended Hawaii from Kim Il Sung... 
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Posted: 10/12/2004 6:49:46 PM EDT
[#46]
If I could turn back the clock about 15 years, I would have retrained into the Contracting career field.
They get nice SRBs in each of the three zones and every contractor I used to work with that has retired, has come back as a GS-11 or 12 the next week in the exact same job . |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 7:04:37 PM EDT
[#47]
The only mistake I made was getting out after my first hitch, but I corrected that in short order a long time ago and I am starting my third decade of service... I have had the chance to wear the uniform of three different branches and work closely with a fourth.
I have no regrets, some things I wonder if I did right, but no looking back and certainly no regrets. It tests you at times and the military is a strange thing... the best and happiest times of my life, as well as the most gut wrenching hurt I have ever known are all part of the life (but then, I guess I dont know much else?). I have to say, without getting too syrupy, that The Good Lord has been a big help... and a special girl who has had more than her share of "waiting" help make it even more special -- But hey, I joined at 17 and have to look back at 40 now, my closet look like a surplus store and when people call me by my first name it goes right over my head  I can say that I look forward to settling down in one place, but man am I glad I took this course to get there... |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 7:07:51 PM EDT
[#48]
Bra-vo! Outstanding. You're a good man. |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 7:09:51 PM EDT
[#49]
Still active duty, no plan to leave.....
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Posted: 10/12/2004 7:11:57 PM EDT
[#50]
I just discounted 7 votes because I know none of you would have stayed out if given the chance to do it all over again.
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