How did you feel about retiring from the military after 20 years of service?

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Matt Eversmann · Answer

I enlisted thinking I would spend four years and bat my eyes and 20 years, three months, and a couple extra days later, I'm retiring. It was a magical experience. I absolutely wouldn't change one thing about it, but I got to tell you, 20 is plenty. I was excited to start the new chapter of my life. I retired in 2008 and again, 20 years and a couple extra months because of the surge, but I look back often and I've told a lot of people, anybody that's willing to listen, the military, the army was very, very good to me and I enjoyed the time in service. I hope I left it a little bit better, but it definitely lived up to its end of the bargain and it did for me far more than I could have imagined. But I was ready for a new chapter and it's one of those, I've always been one of the, once this chapter over, look forward, keep moving forward and look to the future. But when I think about the army, I do look back with great fondness and I'm glad they let me in.

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"How did you feel about retiring from the military after 20 years of service?"