Not what you are looking for, but useful advice none the less......Little things mean a lot. There is a large difference between someone who joined for the "right reason" (whatever that is, it differs from person to person and commander to commander - defend the country, go to war, fly jets, etc) and served up front falling back on the mil duty when times got tough, and someone who went for the airline route and then went looking for a mil job after the times got tough.

There are a lot of bad deals to suck up (sts) in those military jobs, and the last thing they want is someone who is drug along whining the whole time about how much it sucks and how they don't want to be there, etc. It sucks for everybody and having the whiners does not boost morale - besides, the whiners usually don't do their jobs all that well with all that whining and such. Commonly, the way to screen those people out up front is to try to determine why they are joining - those joining for the "right reason" (there it is again) tend to keep plodding along when the going gets rough.

I'm not saying that is your case, there may have been substantial issues that temporarily delayed your timing for the program. It happens. But, the little things you say will have big meaning whether you want them to or not. If I was a Sq CC and I read that first post with consideration to hiring you, I'd have big doubts.

P.S. I am admittedly to the extreme on this topic - but, who's to say that whomever is doing the hiring at the unit you want to join won't have the same outlook as me?