Companion Joe
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I've seen quite a bit of outrage from veterans. It is common practice to refer to someone as "Petty Officer so-and-so" anyway. But since man first took to the sea, your title has been tied to your job.
not like navy boot camps ever been that hard to begin with....lolIt really doesn't surprise me, though. From what I hear, boot camp is more like Girl Scout camp
Stress cards arent real. That rumor is in every branch. What is real is a card that has symptoms and ways to deal with stress.and if someone says something to you, you get to hold up a little card that says they hurt your feelings.
The simple act of getting a ship clear of the pier is a flurry of activity that requires hundreds of men doing hundreds of jobs with a choreography that would make a Super Bowl halftime show curl up into a fetal position and cry, and that doesn't even compare going to GQ or if you are in the middle of the ocean and a fire breaks out.
Indeed! Or launching an air wing from a football field sized runway in the middle of an ocean.
So the problem is that the Navy has all these different "Rates" to do what one person can do in the Army or MC. The Army had this problem within the Health Care field. We had Medics(68W), but there was also LPNs, Respiratory specialists, CNAs, Optometry specialists ect ect. All of these were their own Military Occupational Specialities(MOS) The Army has since done away with them as stand alone MOSs and they are now Additional Skill Identifiers(ASI) or Special Qualification Identifiers(SQIs) what this does is it allows a 68W to be placed in to a billet for a Respiratory Specialist and vice versa. If that 68W isn't certified for that position they will get it. All medics start out as a 68W1OO(68=job field; W=job title; 1=Skill level-1=e1-e4, 2=e5, 3=e6, 4=e7 ect; O=ASI; O=SQI) a medic that was an E5 LPN would be a 68W2M6. Even though they are a M6 they can still hold any E5 Billet in the medical field. They could be medic for a line unit, they could run a section in a hospital, they could be a shift leader at a troop medical clinic or be an LPN in a hospital unit. Its a good thing in the Army because it allows people to enlist as a Medic and progress from there, where the other branches might make them a optometry specialist and they just wanted to be a Medic....oh sorry Corpman er corpPerson?...lolInteresting article popped up in my feed this morning about it.
http://www.stripes.com/news/backlas...-rank-terms-roils-the-enlisted-ranks-1.432068
Seems, to me,ike the major reason sailors don't like it is that it is removing what makes the Navy different from the other branches. Maybe it is time we look at why we have 5 branches of the military? We waste millions on different branches doing the same job.
With one US military that has a ground componant, a water componant, and an air componant we could be more effective for less cost. One supply chain, one chain of command, an no more waste with every branch fighting for a share of the same pot of money to do the same job.
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Seems, to me,ike the major reason sailors don't like it is that it is removing what makes the Navy different from the other branches.
Maybe it is time we look at why we have 5 branches of the military?
It worked for Canada to merge branches. OF COURSE the US can't imitate Canada, especially not on something that worked. Like no longer minting paper dollars and just going ahead and using the fact that vending machines already handle dollar coins. I mean like merging branches of their military.