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Can I get a set of Army wings? I got pinned a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks!
Thanks!
I request an ESWS please.
MasterBates
Well-Known Member
If you can earn it with a PQS part time in less than 6 months.. How much is it really?
I know it's a point of pride for many of the Junior Sailors to get it, but I don't put it in the same league.
Master's personal, not Navy Approve hierarchy of Navy Chest Candy-
Official BAMF Stuff:
SEAL
Naval Astronaut (Pilot/NFO)
EOD
You had to earn it, not a PQS.
Pilot/NFO/NAC
Submariner of any flavor, save the MIDs that managed to get a deterrent patrol pin..(E & O)
You had to earn it, by doing your job, and we award it so you don't feel inferior to the Brownshoes/Bubbleheads/Crazy People.
Surface (I can feel PSWs angry glare from here. I may get kicked in ye ole junk)
PQS for Pins. Really? (I realize some commands make this harder than others, and it may be closer to SWO in pain needed to gain)
Supply Pins (most boats)
EAWS
ESWS
I don't mean to crush the hopes and dreams of ADAN Timmy, but there is light years between NA/NFO wings and EAWS. AN Timmy is not the problem.. It when you have senior guys who seriously put them in the same league as NA/NFO/SUB in terms of difficulty to earn.
/rant
(I'm dealing with cousin's kid trying to convince me his ESWS pin was harder to earn than my wings, in all seriousness at the moment)
I know it's a point of pride for many of the Junior Sailors to get it, but I don't put it in the same league.
Master's personal, not Navy Approve hierarchy of Navy Chest Candy-
Official BAMF Stuff:
SEAL
Naval Astronaut (Pilot/NFO)
EOD
You had to earn it, not a PQS.
Pilot/NFO/NAC
Submariner of any flavor, save the MIDs that managed to get a deterrent patrol pin..(E & O)
You had to earn it, by doing your job, and we award it so you don't feel inferior to the Brownshoes/Bubbleheads/Crazy People.
Surface (I can feel PSWs angry glare from here. I may get kicked in ye ole junk)
PQS for Pins. Really? (I realize some commands make this harder than others, and it may be closer to SWO in pain needed to gain)
Supply Pins (most boats)
EAWS
ESWS
I don't mean to crush the hopes and dreams of ADAN Timmy, but there is light years between NA/NFO wings and EAWS. AN Timmy is not the problem.. It when you have senior guys who seriously put them in the same league as NA/NFO/SUB in terms of difficulty to earn.
/rant
(I'm dealing with cousin's kid trying to convince me his ESWS pin was harder to earn than my wings, in all seriousness at the moment)
MasterBates
Well-Known Member
Well, reality is a bitch, but no, I don't believe ESWS is in the same league as NAC (at least on the Rescue Swimmer/Helo side. Never really dealt with COD/P3 aircrew in more than a passing sense).
My NFO wings were definitely harder to earn than my SWO pin, but the SWO pin was a bigger pain in the ass. Probably because SWOs that didn't like the idea of an aviator earning the pin made it so. Of course they won in the long run since aviators can no longer earn a SWO pin.