Career Life

I sit here writing this with the feeling that the sun is setting on my Air Force career. I feel comforted though that I can turn around and see the faint light of a new dawn with new, prospective careers ahead of me. Soon I'll be able, hopefully, to walk the path that is laid out ahead of me and walk it at my own pace. I will certainly miss the Air Force and my Air Force family. I spent the first ten years of my adult life playing 'soldier' boy. Never in a million years will I say that I enjoyed every second of it. I think if anybody ever claims that, they're lying. I've had so many life experiences with the Air Force, that I can't even possibly imagine what my life would be like without them. Sometimes, I wonder about all of the people that I went to school with. I hear stories from time to time of people that I went to school with. Some have done quite well for themselves, while others have simply wasted their lifes. I feel compelled to stop short of calling some of these people a waste of humanity. Very few of these stories result in people that have gone on to do amazing things. I told some new Airmen a couple of weeks ago, "Even on our nation's worst day, it's still far better that the best day of some of these other countries." I full well believe that; I've been to places and seen people that would just love the chance to even live on our streets, because that would be better than what they have. I'll save those stories for another time.