 That spring, Bowe's seeking came full circle. He remembered meeting another Coast Guard washout who asked him if he wanted to, who told him that if he wanted to, he could reenlist. The Army was stressed for new, warm bodies. His family knew he'd been thinking about it. Whatever you do, don't join the Army, his sister and Albrecht told him. It was a bit of the old Army-Navy rivalry coming through, but Skye also believed that the Navy took care of its own in a way that the Army never had.