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Originally Posted by redsoxsstink
any regrets? i have a friend active duty and one reservist, active duty hates it reservist loves it.
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I don't regret it really, but I do feel I caused me to put my whole life on hold during those 6 or so years. Having a relationship while in active duty is very difficult. So after that I finally met someone and we will actually be getting married in less than 4 weeks. If I knew know everything I went through, I would not have enlisted. Now if I had less career options as a civilian and did not desire going for higher education, the Army may have been a lifetime choice. But in my case, I have too much pride in my work and the Army does not care about that.
As for your active duty friend, I'm not surprised he hates it. Its a joke. It's really all about people seeing how little work they can do or how they can pass off responsibilities. Plus how they can take credit for the good and pass blame for the bad.
And the reserves, which is quite similar to the national guard, is a cake walk and I can't really consider it "real" military. I had officers and higher up SGTs always asking me for my opinion or suggestions because I was prior active. They even made me teach all types of classes. But most of the time we just sat around and did absolutely nothing useful.