Besides living for 37 years, what in your life have you done for that long.

I served for 37 years, continuously from Jan 10, 1974 to Feb. 10, 2011. Across 5 decades...

Went into the Service in '74 as I had graduated college in '72 with a liberal arts degree in Sociology and finding it wasn't worth jackshit in the labor market, I enlisted from Florida. Served 3 years active, went into the Reserves while in grad school full-time and then OCS in '79.

Serving saved me, as it saves many of us.