Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "Kyle Hill" channel.

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  30.  @sixft7in  yea lol same here. '99-'07. I probably shouldn't have extended. Was on two carriers, 65 and 76. Why they didn't turn 65 into a museum after it was decommed I'll never know. It should have been. But people do idiotic things. 65 had a stunning massive mural on the hangar deck doors in 2002-3, then some clown-ass painted over it. Made no sense. Why would you erase such good art? There were some cool seals on the deck in the engineering spaces that also got papered over at some point. Again I mean just why?? Things like that are nice to have around. Why get rid of them? I do not know. Anyhow... My time in was ok but I definitely wouldn't do it again. I can think of many better ways to spend my 20s. I appreciated seeing unique places I got to see but that alone wasn't worth all of the other mess. Had I known ahead of time I would have been going out to sea for 5 years straight very consistently for no reason at all only interrupted once by an incredibly stressful and frustrating shipyard period (in the lesser shipyard out of the two available options even at at that), I would have opted out. Just too much constant movement, interruption and being away from society. It's not worth it. You can't have a normal life. For me it just wasn't necessary. I didn't have a family to support and after a while I just didn't know I was doing it anymore. You can't really be free and you can't really have a life outside of the job so it's not really worth it. Now shore duty is a little different, but I never got a chance to know a nice shore billet. If I was in air wing it would have been different because they only come aboard for the main deployment, but being ship's company you're always there. Every single motion that ship makes you go with it. For me it's just wasn't worth it by the end. Shore billets can be rewarding but five years is too long to wait for one. I don't know how people do 20 years as enlisted. I can see why officers do it but not enlisted. Not all sea billets are hard but the nuke one is a pretty raw deal. Maybe its easier now with the newer ships.
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