Haul ass!
I got out nearly 5 years ago as an ET2. While I look back at the memories of visiting all those exotic ports and the camraderie with my shipmates, I don't miss getting underway.
Get your resume / certifications all squared away. In Naval lingo, get your shit in one sock.
Attend TAP. If you attended TAP already, do it again.
If you're on shore-duty, you
will see a USNR recruiter. When I seperated, I left my ship in a foreign port and transferred to TPU Bangor. Since TPU is a shore command. . .
About a month and a half after I got out, I joined the Washington Air National Guard. Since that is a different branch, I had to attend the USAF equivalent to "A" school even though the USN rating / USAF AFSC are similiar (Electronics Tech. / Satellite, Wideband & Telemetry Systems Maintainer). If you decide to entertain the USAFR / ANG, the maximum paygrade they'll let you in is E5. Then again for the ANG, there is no advancement exams / boards to worry about.
Several of my Guard bretheren attend school full-time, have civilian careers and drill. It's possible.
The grass is greener outside the SUBASE.
IM me if you need to.
ETA: As for the deployment issue, I have yet to deploy with the ANG. I was one of four voluntarily activated after 9/11 for Operation NOBLE EAGLE. That was temporary full-time employment prior to going to the USAF's tech. school. The second point about deployment is
U.S.M.C. U Signed the
Motherfucking
Contract! Don't bitch if you do join and in fact get deployed. Since you have 10 years AD, I think you'd know that. Some of these "college kids" with no AD time have a chronic case of "I joined just for the college money syndrome".