What made you decide to get out? Civilian Job opportunity? Were you at the pinnacle of your career? Something rub you the wrong way?

Wow, what a journey, Ma'am. I think as long as anyone is happy with where they've gone and can be proud of their Service, that's when it's a win-win.

I've talked with a lot of veterans who claim the same thing, young and stupid. In retrospect they regret the decision to get out. When I reenlisted for an ASI/new MOS I learned that the grass was not greener on the other side. I'm hoping that since I've already got that lesson under my belt, I won't need to learn it again! Thanks Greg.

About the same here. In my last year I was ask to return to England TDY and asked if I could get some leave with the TDY, it was approved. A week before I was to leave TDY, my leave was cancelled, "Not Feasible". I thought no one would have that control over me again. But there are so many jobs that the owners/managers have that type of control over those that work under them. The military is just a very large business. I ended up going to school and later became an Air Traffic Controller and had a good career and still had the same shit over my head some the time. Should I of stayed in and lasted 40 years, I would of retired 2 months ago.

I just spent two weeks in Europe, Florence and Northern Italy (got to visit where my grandparents where born and married, what a trip), drove through Geneva and Zürich and Paris. Looking back I think that staying in and be able to live in other countries would of been great. But given a chance to do it over, how many of us would change anything?