What made you decide to become an officer? Was it "in your blood" or did you want something new in your life?

It was the same rule I use when I pull up to a light with multiple lanes and get in the shortest line. It is the once less idiot rule as an officer and then with promotions you have one less idiot you may have to work for.

My path was more driven by circumstance. I was in engineering school, pulled a draft number of 2, so joined the Navy Reserve vs. getting grabbed by the Army. Did Boot, A School, deployed, and kept going to school. Went to war for summer vacations and that helped pay for UCLA. So I wanted to go the O Route because that's where I could use my degree. Funny, I had E-5 and O-1 papers to sign the same day. Picked the later and never looked back.

Very straightforward: I wanted to be an Air Force Officer since I was a kid so I could fly airplanes. If I had to make the decisions again I would have done most of the same things. Maybe taken a useful second language in High School and College, like Spanish.