+1.
I did 30 years evenly split between active and reserves. Retired from 2nd career at 60. Reserve retirement (with significant credit from AD), really rounded out my retirement. And, TriCare saved us from ACA nonsense. But as OG Farmer noted, my body is used up in a lot of ways.
Thread hi-jack:
Just got approved today for a ~$300K VA loan.
Happy to carry that mortgage to my grave! I know that this is contrary to many here, but after owning several homes over the years, we decided to use some of our current home equity and the favorable VA interest rate to buy our last home. Once we start seeing hearses pulling U-Haul trailers, we'll revisit this decision.