Retired combat engineer

[Gerard]

I can honestly say, the best years of my life, now closing on 53, was in the military as a combat engineer, from 1981 to 1991....left the military in 1991 to take a civilian job and have never experienced the closeness of the military life...nothing to-date has even come close....so to all you young sappers, no matter how tough you may think the military life is, the grass is not green on the other side....Chimo.

 

[fraserdw]

Roger that, left the Reg For Infantry in 1989, 3 years of UNB later I was managing a wholesale firm with 30 employees and 4 locations, working 16 hour days, travelling across the province on my own dime and making $3000 less than an Corporal.  There was no green grass in civie land!  Glad to be back full time since 1996!

 

[Gerard]

congrats on getting back in the military, my son is currently in the military and posted to petawawa...armour core, (Cpl Joe)