[Ace's Dad]

Chiefs are more low level managers than anything else. They can be replaced.

They are technical managers, at the top of a very technical Navy. Just saying...

[Blood of Tyrants]

Managers whose technical training is often very out of date. 99.9% of the avionics technician chiefs wouldn’t know how to even start the computers that tested the equipment on board. Which is fine because they are not expected to know how.