What lesson or experience from deployment and or combat are you happy to have learned/been through?

Murphy's Law that said "Anything can get you killed, including nothing." I have had Brothers and Sisters get killed while in Chapel, waiting on a bus to go across post, and going to the Port-A-John. It taught me that you could go literally at anytime and that nothing is guaranteed. So instead of being scared to die, live like you were going to die tomorrow. Worrying about it doesn't do anything positive

I learned to hold myself accountable. I recieved an Article 15 while deployed. I hated it at the time, but the leadership in the unit took me aside and explained that it was my opportunity to change my perspective and establish a new reputation in the battalion. So I set to work, rebuilding my broken reputation. I owe my career to an NCO that I believed was trying to end it, while in reality he was trying to fix it.

I learned the hard way that you can walk forever, or so it seemed,sometimes asleep on your feet,carry loads on your back that made it seem your shoulders would never stop hurting,be cut ,bitten,stung, along with bad water worse food and at the end of this journey I took so long ago the only thing that can stop you is yourself,and your Brothers are forever.