Laura Adams1979:  

let me think about that for a minute.I traveled a lot to different states and partied to much but everyone did, met lots of wonderful people. My permanent duty station was Washington State, Puget Sound, a nuclear submarine base.. I did not like the weather because it rained everyday, and all the clubs were located off base. I lived on base for a while on the 11th floor, there were beer machines at the end of each hall and the building was co-ed. So needless to say when I first arrived there at 18years old the party was on................. I was hurt very badly in the military, one thing is ,I survived a hangman's break, which is a break like in all the old westerns, at C-4 and C-5 (cervical) which as you know most of the people in the movies with that type of break did not survive, oh well , hell I did. This was all due to some other physical trauma going on at the same time. Well when I got out of the Navy , of course I received my honorable discharge and was then offered a 100% service connected discharged, but at the time I did not want to be considered disabled and I wanted to work.I did have some pride and I worked as long as I could. The last job I had was , I had opened a small country cafe. But then I started to have very many medical problems from the old injuries , they started getting worse the older I got , so I finally applied for my 100% service connection disability, and 11 months later I got it and a huge back pay. Now I go to the V.A a lot for my medical problems which have gotten very bad and try to do my best at the same time , to raise my last two children.Of course they will be taken care of as far as college, the military will pay for 4 years of school, books, tuition, and even a pay check. Right now the pay if the were in college would be 900.00 per month, by the time they go ,no telling how much, and they even get their choice of colleges. If they wanted to go to Yale or Harvard the military would pay for it.So that is another benefit that I'm glad for. from the Navy,I wanted to retire but unfortunately I got hurt. But , the Military has been very good to me as far as pay and benefits, so in that since I am very lucky that if I did have to get hurt at a job , that it was the military.I'll even have a military burial with honors, taps will be played and the guns being fired as a salute. Well at lleast I gave it my best and did receive an "HONORABLE".........tHATS ABOUT IT ON THAT PART OF MY LIFE............................................