Would you do it again?

[NukeNTO]

Yes I'd dol it again.  I'm glad I'm done now, but I don't regret my decision to join.  Learned a lot, got paid pretty well and my experience got me my current job. 

[Jechtm]

Just do it.
Really.

I was at gamestop for a few years, now im ready to start as an elt on the worlds most advanced submarine. Its life changing.

[Already Gone]

Lemme see how many different smartass answers I can come up with...

Probably.  If I could go back in time and change one decision, that one would not be the top of the list.

No.  If I could go back, knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have needed to join the Navy.

No.  Doing it again would be silly, having done it once already.

No.  If I were aware at the time of the other options and opportunities that were available to me then, I would have picked one of them.

But, if I were to go back, with the same circumstances that I lived under at the time, and having no power to change them , Hell Yeah, I would do it.  Only, this time, I'd do it BETTER!!!

[Rod Puller]

Absolutely.  I was a perpetual underachiever academically until I went through the NNPP.  Now I embrace every challenge I encounter.  For most (not all) it will be an experience that you can grow from emotionally, intellectually, and financially.  None of my friends from high school can come close to what I made in the Navy and what I'm making now that I'm out and in the commercial industry.  On top of that, your sea stories will ALWAYS* make you a popular guy in social settings.

*Assuming you don't end up on a boomer.  Then you do nothing and have nothing to talk about.  Unless you were on the USS Tennessee or in the vicinity of the Cumberland River in the spring of 2008.

[Marlin]

Absolutely.  I was a perpetual underachiever academically until I went through the NNPP.  Now I embrace every challenge I encounter.  For most (not all) it will be an experience that you can grow from emotionally, intellectually, and financially.  None of my friends from high school can come close to what I made in the Navy and what I'm making now that I'm out and in the commercial industry.  On top of that, your sea stories will ALWAYS* make you a popular guy in social settings.

A very common theme for Navy Nukes. Rickovers nuclear plantation has instilled work ethic in many a young squid.