[Pan_Yan]

...this old Army desk jockey *loved* your "simulating submarine life". That,too,makes me glad I didn't go Navy!

But on the flip side I was an E-4 after six months and never crawled in the mud.

[Gay State Conservative]

But on the flip side I was an E-4 after six months...

Does the Navy ordinarily promote that quickly...or is it just "the Silent Service"?

...and never crawled in the mud.

Apart from BCT,neither did I.One of the many advantages of being in command of a typewriter and some filing cabinets. ;-)

[OCCASparky]

But on the flip side I was an E-4 after six months and never crawled in the mud.

I hear that...even making ET3 in a year was nice. I made ET1 in 6. When I got frocked, I went to the Top-4 Club at Hickham AFB one night. The positively ancient E-4 AP got right up in my face when he saw me in there, demanding my ID, who was my CSM, etc...and he was a good 10 years older than me. Imagine the look on his face when I whipped out that PO1 ID, and I wasn't even 25 years old yet. Ah, good times.