Hey.... I'm so jealous of her I should slap myself. I have more than a few regrets sometimes.
Me too. I was a heartbeat away from re-enlisting into a dream job in the CG. I would have been an E5 in an E6 billet as the OPS boss on a 110 ft boat out of Arcata, CA.
It was a dream job. #3 in command on a really active patrol boat, and lots of boat driving experience. I would've made Chief in a couple of years, easy.
Of course if I'd done that I'd probably have been a lifer, though the scary part of that is that I would only now be coming up on my retirement *this* year.
I'm not sure it would've been a bad choice.