Posted on 12/12/2011 8:49:40 AM PST by erod
If you`re OK with having the military-hating social engineer-in-chief as your ultimate boss, go for it. I retired from the AF after 28 years (2004), but can`t in good conscience recommend the military to anyone now.
NAVY - Never Again Volunteer Yourself
I am a Navy vet. It was a great experience for me personally, but that was some 28 years ago.
Thanks!
Back in 2001, my age was a big, hairy deal. Even with prior service.
I started the process on the 13th of September, and didn't swear in until January of 2002. That included time to get 2 waivers for hearing loss and color-blindness.
/johnny
Thank you :)
Yeah I would assume I would enter in as an officer I just got to find out how to do it and I think you provided me with some of that info thanks.
Sorry, Col. But as a former zoomie, if I had a do-over from 1980 forward, I'd go Navy.
The food in the Navy is nearly is good as AF, and the opportunities are MUCH greater, imho.
I do not regret my time in the AF, and I'll have 'High Flight' read at my funeral, but I'd advise a younger me to go Navy.
/johnny
Rum, sodomy, and the lash...
“Unless you get a Navy job that requires swimming, you won’t be in the water.”
Hopefully...
In order to enter as an officer, you have to be recruited as such. You would not go to Boot Camp. In this case, you’d go to OCS. USN and USAF are both top choice. Look at your degree and what the AF and USN are looking at (needing). Specifically talk to the officer recruiter.
If you do not get recruited as an officer the highest rank you can expect out of Boot is E-3. During Boot, you’ll be an E-1. However, in OCS you’ll be E-5 during training and O-1 on graduation.
If you have never served, serve. You won’t regret it, even if there are times it DOES suck when you are in. Even if you serve four years and get out (like I did) the things you learn and the things you see likely won’t be repeated ever agin in your life.
The advantage I give to the Navy is that if you get sea duty (not on a sub) you are likely to see many more places in four years than you would in nearly any branch of the military.
On the downside, the Navy seems to be hell-bent on a political correctness trajectory that is taking them places I don’t like. But make no mistake, all the other services will go in that same direction as well, so be forwarned if that is a sensitive issue with you.
As for what you choose for work, it rarely pans out into civilian job opportunities. I suggest parachute rigger...:)
Those guys always seemed to enjoy themselves.
Nowadays, without even so much as the benefit of rum and the lash, it seems.
Or Marines?
If you really want to enlist, there is nothing wrong with that. But if you already have a degree it just doesn't make any sense whatsoever to not go for commission.
Navy boot camp? Lots of pizza and video games......and fun in the showers.
My son was in the Marines, so I’m partial to the Marines. But any branch of the military is a good choice.
Navy boot camp? Lots of pizza and video games......and fun in the showers.
I am gonna suggest something a little different. Sign up for a combat arms MOS, active duty. Yes, it i a little more dangerous but you will find some things out about yourself you might not otherwise ever know. Combat MOS’s is not all grunt work. Rank comes much quicker and you learn certain skills you would otherwise never experience.
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