This is a good thread for any retiring or separating mil guys.
Two things to be gleaned here:
If you can at all help it, get a flying tour on the back end of your military career. Uncle don't care about your career aspirations and he will never stop asking you to sacrifice.
Your loyalty from T minus three years on needs to be to you and your family and what is best for them. I am willing to bet that any and all of us have made significant personal sacrifices, often times costing us marriages and close relationships with our children. Time to recoup some of that.

I am still wrapping my brain around the loyalty thing, as it is intuitive to me as a career military guy to be extremely loyal to my fellow servicemen, no matter what the rank, and do whatever my bosses ask me to as long as long as it doesn't sacrifice safety TOO much. And unions? That one is hard too, but I think I am slowly wrapping my brain around it.