Posted on 12/07/2007 1:47:58 PM PST by Bear_Slayer
If I had stayed in I probably would be a Master Chief about now, at the least I would have been retired as one. I might have worked with your friend.
Ask if he ever spent time at:
Navy Hospital Camp Pendleton
or
KMCAS
“If I had stayed in I probably would be a Master Chief about now, at the least I would have been retired as one. I might have worked with your friend.”
I’ll show him your post. This summer I passed the 35 year mark since I left for basic training. Where did the years go?
It is unexplainable and yet those that share the same feeling understand it.
Roger that. I have friends who don't understand it at all. People who cannot comprehend why someone would stay in the Army when they could be making literally four times as much in the civilian world. Well, as they say, people join the military for a whole variety of reasons.
I want to say more, but I don't know if it will make much sense.
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