It's nice to hear it from someone else.. Because usually all I read on here is how people are all excited to be in the Navy and I never hear anyone express concern for leaving family, so I was starting to wonder if it was a bad sign.. And yea my parents were proud of me being a crewchief I'm sure they'd be ecstatic for a pilot. I think a lot of people going in it doesn't hit them until they are in or unless they've gone through it.. I remember when I first left for the USAF, I didn't think of those things until the last night before I left and when I was in boot..
Do you honestly think that NO ONE expresses concern over leaving their family? How about my friends who went to OCS (2 of which were also priors as well) with me and left behind dogs, 2-4 kids, and a loving wife/husband? To do the very same thing that you're having doubts about doing as well?
Or how about the guy or girl who isn't married and never really gets a chance to see their family at all, just due to finances or timing of training or other issues? And lets add that they haven't seen their family in almost 3 years and at one point, their family was about 100 mi from them, easily drivable distance....but due to the flight schedule and training, he had to fly and was unable to go at all.
Everyone to some extent misses a dog or kids or family or their parents. Just because we don't voice it and go "woe is me" everyday all day, doesn't mean we don't think about it. The reason that you don't hear most people talking about it is because its a common thing that EVERYONE at one point or another has or will have to go through. So why be that ONE guy who's always saying "I miss my family....." when probably 99% of everyone else has it in the back of their minds too? Yes being away from your family and loved ones suck, but you knew that coming into it and so did everyone else before you and who's coming in with you. That's just one of the many sacrifices we have to make with this job and we all know everyone misses their family to an extent, so whats the point in lamenting over it constantly?