Sounds like you had some great experience.
For some reason God and my Country honored me with duties that became the greatest and best things I have done in my lifetime. I got to do some really cool and important stuff and I still look back and wonder why a regular guy like me was picked to do it.
Through the years after my retirement from the Air Force I did make a lot more money but I can never say the jobs I did could ever match what I was allowed to do in the service of my Country.