Are you happy with the path you chose or would you choose differently?

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I only have the path I'm on currently, i think back and I don't see at what point it was in my hands to get a different outcome

I think that if I were born again 100 times and had the opportunity to know this, I would be in the military again, it is my passion, my life, my everything.

I'm happy with the road but I belong to the Marine Corps, I think that if I could choose again I would choose aviation, it is something spectacular to be able to fly a fighter.

I would choose a different one, don't get me wrong, I love everything that has happened and I have learned a lot throughout the journey, but it has not been easy and the traces that military life leaves you are not easy to erase.

There are many scars, there are many traumas, and there are many damages that we cause to people who perhaps did not deserve it because they are orders, if I chose another path, I would choose peace.

Our life as soldiers is not easy, but we get used to living with the difficulties with the trauma, now if I had known this before starting I would surely not be here, if I could choose another path I would have been a mechanic or an architect.

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