<p>By all means!</p>
<p>I know exactly what you mean about the idealism. I’m all to familiar with it.</p>
<p>I used to watch documentaries about the Navy in awe. Now, I watch them and enjoy them, but I watch them with a bit of sadness, because it’s not always as cool as they portray it. That said, my career was pretty damned boring, so others will have their differing opinions as to the extent of the “cover up”, but all will agree that watching it on TV is very different than living it, and it’s better and not so good, depending on the topic.</p>
<p>Many times, I wonder if I made the best of it, which is why I stress to your kids to take advantage of EVERY opportunity, because looking back in regret really SUCKS, and I’d spare them that. I doubt it’s a lesson you haven’t tried to teach them already yourselves, but perhaps coming from some nobody on the internet who has, for better or worse, BTDT, they might listen a bit more.</p>
<p>It is cool, however, to see someone you know in one of those programs. It’s happened a few times. Once they once interviewed my old Company Officer, who was now the CO of an SSBN. THAT was COOL! :D</p>