has any one been in the Navy and regret your decision on joining?

Question

the reason I'm asking is because i enlisted and I want to know opinions from different experiences that people have gone trough I've heard good experiences but so far nothing negative I want to hear both, I also know that until I go through it I won't know for real in how I feel but i want to hear from others, thanks for taking the time to give me your experiences even if they are good experience I want to hear them.

Answer 1

I truly think that joining the military like anything else is WHAT you make of it...........my husband joined the military for what might be considered not the best of reasons BUT he then went on the really embrace it and spent the next 20+ years in and had a ball, yes there are bad times but they are far outweighed by the good, and to be honest we can be pretty much any place in the country or the world and bump into some person that he served along side at some point, and it is like watching him meet a long lost brother...........and he certainly would not change any of it for the world.

My son then went on to join the USAF and he is also experiencing the great respect for each other that comes with being part of a big brotherhood, he has been in for two years now and has traveled many places and now at his 1st duty station he is taking advantage of pretty much every ITT trip that he can.

Remember that like with any job, you ARE going to met idiots, some of them will be in charge of you, but like everything else you suck it up and move on if not physically certainly mentally.

Give your best and take out of it everything that you can.

regards and very good luck to you with your choices.

Answer 2

The only regret I had about joining the Navy was on the first day of boot camp; it was a culture shock.

There were other times that I did not think the Navy was such a good idea: 18 hour work days on WestPac, working for 37 hours straight, some really BS chiefs.

But on a whole, I have nothing to regret about joining the Navy. It was the best thing that I have ever done, including college and graduate school.

Nothing in life is completely happy. Anything worth doing requires preseverence. The Navy is what you make of it; if you have a bad attitude, your enlistment will suck. If you do the best job you can and work to better yourself as a sailor, you will get a good experience out of the Navy.

Answer 3

I just got out of the Navy after 5 years. I don't regret joining at all, but I won't lie, some parts were really hard at times. I was deployed three times, twice on ships, one on ground in Afghanistan. And even though, sometimes it sucked, I have learned so much for it and would not be the person I am today without being in the Navy. I did get out, but not because I regretted joining, it was just time for me to go. I wanted to go to school full time and try to start a family.

It will be a great experience for you if you have a positive outlook on it. Military can suck at times, but it is always good looking back. Good luck!

Answer 4

My boyfriend joined and signed up for medical training. They told him he would go to boot camp and then do 6 months on the ship or something like that, and then he would start the medical training. He got onto the ship and they all but laughed at him when he questioned being on the ship for 2 years before any kind of "training" would happen. His recruiter lied to him and so did the Navy while he was in there. Alternatively, I have a customer who comes into my store who will tell me all of the great places he got to see because he was in the Navy.

He said if there wasn't a war going on he would recommend the Navy to anyone who didn't know what they wanted to do yet. You get everything provided for you and you get to see the world. He put a big emphasis on IF there wasn't a war though.

Answer 5

The first morning of boot camp I did have regret.

Than my company commander got us together and said boot camp is a game for the next 9 weeks to make you into a sailor. You will do things here you will never do again.
So do you best and make the best of this bad situation.

I have got to say that got me through boot camp.

When I got to the fleet I saw more of the world than most people will ever dream off.
I have done things and see more than I could ever hope for. Now that I am out I now see the benifit of going into the Navy.

I learn I am the one who put limits on myself no one else.

So take advantage of where you go take all the tours and all the schools the Navy offers.

You will benifit greatly.

Answer 6

My best friend enlisted in the Navy and said it was the best choice he ever made -- that is, until I enlisted in the Air Force and he saw how much better I had it. He was a SEABEE so he wasn't assigned to a ship, and he liked that just fine, but he didn't like getting deployed to Iraq twice (that was the first time we were there in the early '90's). I have other friends and colleagues in the Navy who like it just fine, but just like my best friend, they wished they had joined the Air Force.

Answer 7

I joined the Navy.

Spent 9 years in the Navy.

The only regret I have is not staying. I thought I'd get out and go to college and things just didn't work out.

I was on nuclear submarines and I would do it again in a heart beat if my body would let me... I'm too old now.




g-day!

Answer 8

maybe you should be more positive in your main question and not ask if they regret it, but rather, if they're happy w/ their decision? my great aunt was in during vietnam, she's a veteran now and serves as a lawyer for other veterans. being in the navy made her who she is today. she saved lives. she doesn't regret it.