If you were young again...
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MikeL
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I've gotten a lot of good go's an jobs/taskings as a Sig Op but if I could do it again I'd get LASIK before going into the Army instead of doing it while i'm already in a red flagged trade thats hard to OT out of an go Infantry. But I'm still young an I've still got options for other things, etc.
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When I first joined I was a Tfc Tech, now I'm a PMed Tech. I really like the trade I have now, although Tfc would have had some great opportunities as well. I just wish I had never gotten out as my 20 years would have been done three years ago..... :-\
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What do you mean - "young AGAIN"??
I'm young - STILL!!!.
To answer your question without the smartassery - if I had to do it all over again, I'd stay in the Infantry.
I did an undistinguished stint as a 031 a LONG time ago - then I got out. I re-enrolled as an Adm Clk (831), which trade was amalgamated (along with Fin Clks and CEP Techs) into RMS (836).
Although I had a good career as a support guy - and I'm proud of it - I really think I would have been happier being supported - rather than supporting. It's a mind-set thing, I think - friends of mine (with as much or more TI than I) are extremely happy in their support roles - and wouldn't think of becoming a Cbt Arms guy.
It is, of course, a hypothetical question which has no real meaning in the greater scheme of things. I re-enrolled as an Adm Clk because it was the first trade they offered, I was unemployed (during the LAST great economic downturn in '82), and I had a wife and child to support. If that same set of circumstances were to re-occur - I'd make the same decision.
Roy
I'm young - STILL!!!.
To answer your question without the smartassery - if I had to do it all over again, I'd stay in the Infantry.
I did an undistinguished stint as a 031 a LONG time ago - then I got out. I re-enrolled as an Adm Clk (831), which trade was amalgamated (along with Fin Clks and CEP Techs) into RMS (836).
Although I had a good career as a support guy - and I'm proud of it - I really think I would have been happier being supported - rather than supporting. It's a mind-set thing, I think - friends of mine (with as much or more TI than I) are extremely happy in their support roles - and wouldn't think of becoming a Cbt Arms guy.
It is, of course, a hypothetical question which has no real meaning in the greater scheme of things. I re-enrolled as an Adm Clk because it was the first trade they offered, I was unemployed (during the LAST great economic downturn in '82), and I had a wife and child to support. If that same set of circumstances were to re-occur - I'd make the same decision.
Roy
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If I were young again; hmm I signed up in 82 at age 17 for med a and was told the trade was closed for 2 years.
'Well' I asked, 'What's open?'
'Well' said the recruiter 'Hmm, let me look..why combat arms is open' (sound familiar to anyone?
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Spent 6 year with 1RCR in London (had a blast) then LOTPed to medic and was sent to 2RCR as a medic a few years later.
Oh yeah, I also would have taken the advice of the accountants that were brought in when we got to the Battalion late 82. They suggested we put away about $100 a month into RRSP's...but we young snot-nosed pups thought it better to piss away our paychecks on booze and a good time :
I wouldn't change anything (well except about socking away $100 a month; just think 27 yrars later :crybaby: )
'Well' I asked, 'What's open?'
'Well' said the recruiter 'Hmm, let me look..why combat arms is open' (sound familiar to anyone?
)Spent 6 year with 1RCR in London (had a blast) then LOTPed to medic and was sent to 2RCR as a medic a few years later.
Oh yeah, I also would have taken the advice of the accountants that were brought in when we got to the Battalion late 82. They suggested we put away about $100 a month into RRSP's...but we young snot-nosed pups thought it better to piss away our paychecks on booze and a good time :
I wouldn't change anything (well except about socking away $100 a month; just think 27 yrars later :crybaby: )
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I would have still been a 041, but I would do a better job of not sharing my opinions too freely with anyone who would listen, especially when beer fueled 50 cal finger makes an appearance. I too would have been better at saving my loot, spent a few less evenings at JRC/Jolly Miller Pub, and definitely would have stayed away from happy Hour at the mess on March 3rd, 1981. I would also have been much less of an idiot and passed my CLC first time around.
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Piper said:
Your Rating has just gone up 75%.
One Disastrous mistake deserves one of equal magnitude.
I would have never gone to Zanvort on the North Sea in Holland on a R&R where I met Wife Nr.1 and was talked into chucking 10 yrs. of Service and Rank out the window. (see how I met my wife).
The stupid thing was that at the time I was going out with a Beautiful Young German Girl, the Daughter of our Civilian Cook at No.1 Field Detention Barracks.
I regret this, to this very day.
Cheers/
