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US Navy Recruits Older Middle Age Sailors
gCaptain ^

Posted on 11/20/2022 8:39:21 AM PST by ameribbean expat

The US Navy is facing recruiting challenges in a tight labor market, and has raised its maximum enlistment age to 41 in order to attract more sailors to the fleet. The Navy is also looking to increase its use of bonuses and other financial incentives to attract recruits.

While most of these middle age recruits will be eligible to serve in combat assignments in some of the most physically demanding Navy communities, including the NAVY SEALs, have age cutoffs that differ from the general enlistment age, reports the Navy Times.

“As we continue to navigate a challenging recruiting environment,” US Navy Commander Dave Benham told the Navy times. “Raising the enlistment age allows us to widen the pool of potential recruits, creating opportunities for personnel who wish to serve.”

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US citizens above the age of 41 have another option for serving their country at sea. Older individuals can obtain Merchant Mariner Credentials from the USCG and apply to sail aboard US Navy ships as civil service sailors with the Military Sealift Command. Recruits deciding on this option, however, must be able to obtain a security clearance and be capable of passing pre-employment physical examination. Those who want to sail as officers will need a USCG license and should contact a state maritime academy for information on enrollment.

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To: Jumper

I heard of a CSM who tried cocaine for the first time at a party during his Terminal Leave. He went in to out-process a few days later, and whaddya know, his number came up for urinalysis. All his decades of service down the tubes, no retirement. Should he have tried coke? Heck no. But all those years, gone...
And then there was the Lt Col who got popped on urinalysis for prescription pain killers. They’d been prescribed for her, legit. But she took some after the prescription had expired. Again, busted out, no retirement...


41 posted on 11/20/2022 10:10:23 AM PST by quikstrike98 ( )
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To: quikstrike98

That’s a fact.


42 posted on 11/20/2022 10:14:26 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ought-six

and in many cases they were UNDER FIRE while doing it !!


43 posted on 11/20/2022 10:14:53 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: ameribbean expat

As long as Ms Milley and Biden are in command, I’d say don’t even dare enlist, rejoin or whatever. DEI is not your friend in the military, and they’ll (Milley and Biden) will sacrifice your life to hide what’s going on with son Hunter and all the other stuff.


44 posted on 11/20/2022 10:17:13 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Iceclimber58

My guess is your brother-in-law already had some relevant experience. The navy guys they’re talking about hiring would, I’m guessing, have little relevant experience. I recall the 57-end date information. Fifty-seven, by the way, was when I started having medical issues for the first time ever.

BTW, someone who is forty-one and thinking about joining the navy, my guess is they have had little success in whatever you are doing now. One has to wonder why, when most of us are in our peak earning years someone would be joining the navy at the lowest rank. I’m imagining the “L” sign over the forehead.


45 posted on 11/20/2022 10:17:37 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Yashcheritsiy

You were correct to put the comma after “older”.


46 posted on 11/20/2022 10:17:46 AM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Cen-Tejas

They were indeed.


47 posted on 11/20/2022 10:24:11 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Vaduz

love how that is the go to opinion of this around here.

It is indeed a factor, but honestly, who wants to be in Biden’s Military?
they kicked everyone out who didn’t want the clot shot
they promote perversity.
you get discriminated against if you’re white.
They won’t hire qualified pilots due to the color of their skin

I can go on.


48 posted on 11/20/2022 10:58:44 AM PST by SPDSHDW (Ya’ll knew he was installed via fraud, and chose to do nothing. Enjoy the roller coaster ride.)
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To: ameribbean expat

I just don’ think you guys are being very open minded about this. Just look at the three star admiral that Biden has working for him.


49 posted on 11/20/2022 11:15:01 AM PST by Flint
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To: Gen.Blather

“When I talked to someone in the know he said that the issues with youth were, in order, drugs, arrests, physically unfit, just plain stupid and face tattoos.”

Exactly. We are friends with the head of HR at the regional hospital here. He said that half of the applicants for all jobs at the hospital (from orderlies to physicians) are rejected because the applicants can’t pass a drug test or the criminal background check.


50 posted on 11/20/2022 11:15:23 AM PST by riverdawg (Wells Fargo is my bank and I have no complaints.)
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To: ameribbean expat

Yes, 41 year old sailors are acceptable, but they must be a size 12 or smaller.


51 posted on 11/20/2022 11:21:36 AM PST by Hardshell (Mollie Tibbetts)
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To: stars & stripes forever
Millions of eligible servicemen and women eliminated via ABORTION.

And never conceived because of contraception.

52 posted on 11/20/2022 11:33:23 AM PST by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: Starboard

That’s right. And if they’re white they will be subjected to all sorts of Wokeness. Who would join any of the Armed Forces to be called inherently racist, etc?

Unit cohesion must be in very bad shape by now.


53 posted on 11/20/2022 11:39:41 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: SPDSHDW

Biden is just a temp the woke business is on the slippery slope.


54 posted on 11/20/2022 1:36:23 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Gen.Blather

The face tattoos would confirm the stupidity. And strongly suggest illicit drug use.


55 posted on 11/20/2022 2:10:08 PM PST by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.." )
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To: LouAvul

I have seen more tattoos at the beach on women than I ever did in the military on guys when it was only males serving. Dating myself I guess .


56 posted on 11/20/2022 2:43:43 PM PST by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: ameribbean expat

I retired from the USAF at 41. While I enjoyed my time while I was in, I never missed it for a second when I retired. It is for a young person to put up with the crap you have to go through. I can’t imagine trying to start in the military at 41. It would not work, for the person or the Navy.


57 posted on 11/20/2022 3:50:02 PM PST by bosco24 (EOD)
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