Lot of good advice already posted to you. As you are in the military you can understand "watch your brothers back". Same advice for those of us into bikes.Take all the advice in the spirit it is given as we all want you to be safe. I have been riding bikes since 1961 (you do the math) and I still find an empty high school parking lot every once in awhile to keep myself in touch with emergency tactics and just for fun. Experts in any field will tell you that in an emergency your body/brain will react the way it has been taught thru training and repetition. Practice your low speed handling, sweeps,swerves, stops ect. If you go to Amazon.com or several other book sellers and go to books and enter motorcycle in the search block you will get hundreds of books on riding bikes safely. It is money well spent. One I have read and re-read and highly recommend is "More Proficient Motorcycling" by David L. Hough. It covers most of what you need and causes you to think about differant situations you will find yourself in. Also has many parking lot drills illustrated. Bottom line is learn all you can about riding safe and learning to avoid hazardous sitiuations so you can avoid having to use emergency tactics to keep from harm. Develope that 6th sense that a lot of old hands have. It comes sooner than you think if you study and observe every time you ride. Go your own way.
