---I, despite my efforts to avoid it immediately upon receiving my college degree was in the Army and very quickly on my way over. I never have and never will look down on anyone that was more successful than myself in trying to avoid going.---
I was number 276, but being terminally stupid, joined the Army a year later. By the time I completed training they weren't sending fresh meat to Vietnam and I was in Korea when Saigon fell.
You're still around, and presumably have all your body parts intact, those that old age hasn't taken that is. What ya' bitch'n about?
When I bitch at myself, it's for not staying in a little longer. I could be retired now, and living with my wife, instead of stuck 350 miles away just to make the house payments (two of them). I took the first early release program available to my AFSC (like an MOS, but for the Air Force). I did go directly into the reserves, though I wasn't required to do so.