The Navy

[Hawk]

I never served in the military, spent my time doing fire/rescue. Most people watch movies like Backdraft and Ladder 49 and ask me if my life was like that. The truth is that I had MAYBE a handful of moments like that in a 13 year career. I spent more time holding a mop than holding a hose or defibrillator paddles. But a movie about firemen mopping the floor and washing the trucks just isn't that interesting. Don't get me wrong, I loved it. It was an amazing life. It was just nothing like what the movies make you think it's like and I suspect the military is the same way.

EDIT: I do kind of understand where you are coming from. I spent my high school years reading Tom Clancy novels. I thought they were great. Within months of my high school graduation Iraq invaded Kuwait and the sabers were rattling. I was so excited that I could join the navy and do the things I had been reading about. Then my father the retired naval officer who served 22 years talked some sense into me and I stayed in school. I never regretted that.

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