Geez, I was promised 30 years hard labor if I published something like Navy Communications Technician - My Favorite Submarine Message Traffic
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I imagine there is a little ‘tongue in cheek’ here^^, BUT, I went to IB in 57 for “R” between not liking etc, was sent to an APA in AUG 57.
I found out many years later (after doing some research on ships I was stationed on) that no less than 6 other people from IB went aboard the same and ended up in the same Radio Shack as RM’s....and never once had a conversation about it till I discovered the data.
To this day I don’t ‘discuss’ what we ‘did’ in school or what the mission was - unless the person was in the same field, we may feel each other ‘out’ etc....
Don’t know if we took the ‘Secret/TS’ roll over zealously, were just taught you were no better than your word, or had heavy jail sentences over our heads.
Probably a combination of all 3.....<:
“I found out many years later (after doing some research on ships I was stationed on) that no less than 6 other people from IB went aboard the same and ended up in the same Radio Shack as RM’s....and never once had a conversation about it till I discovered the data.
To this day I don’t ‘discuss’ what we ‘did’ in school or what the mission was - unless the person was in the same field, we may feel each other ‘out’ etc....”
I think that I heard of similiar rumors of CTA’s serving as a Captain’s yeoman, with no watches when in home port. Often making more money as a lowly PO with pro pay, sea duty pay, and haz. duty pay than the junior officers on the ships.
It was rumored, that the CO’s of these A’s made it very clear to the senior petty officers and other officers, that these A’s only reported to the CO. In other words, no bs and leave them alone.
I went to a U S A F tech school at Goodfellow AFB, San Angelo TX in 1960. The classes were composed of five airmen and five sailors. All of the sailors were recent graduates of the “R” branch school at IB. They took the top of the “R” branch school and sent the to GAFB for the “T” branch course. They got name assignments from BUPERS; our overseas assignments were by class rank. I ended up in the Philippines. A lot of the sailors went to Adak right out of school.