My anecdotes are as follows: Ten or so years ago the Med Officer in Coronado was a prior enlisted SEAL. The Training Officer at Special Boat Team TWELVE was an enlisted HM(SEAL), got into the medical enlisted commissioning program, did the minimum time there, then moved back to SEALs. One enlisted SEAL went to OCS (again 10 years ago) for a pilot spot, but I'm not sure how it turned out. I know with the Training Off, he had convinced himself "I'm getting too old for this stuff", then missed it and went back.
Thanks a lot. As a matter of fact, probably, I can suggest that either the pay scale in every community fits individual estimations of the man or woman in question or the career proposals matter more, since changing the community means all new stuff from the start. In any case, the general reluctance to change the community and administrative barriers to do so both show an evidence of up to five different navies within one USN (aviation, surface, dolphins, trident, bomb) plus some RL stuff. From the standpoind of the sociology and structure theory, in my opinion, USN is corporative holding, long post-IPO. In such an organization, process means much more than result, and the field salespersons often feel bad, being in a strong and hardly bearable contradiction process vs result. In my opinion, again, the only thing that saves USN from very poor performance on a divisional level is CPO corps, as I noted before. If so, the main billet type for USN is recruiter. So beware to enlist dumb people and foreigners who hardly speak English - the material to make a CPOs from is much more important than training and subsequent education.
In Russian Navy, since the CPO corps, even presented, does mean almost nothing, the attraction, selection and retention all work on officers level. But Russian Navy has no corporate structure, it's rather a clan-type officers society. No matter who you are by trade - SWO, submariner, Marine or doctor, you support your clan leader, who is an Admiral or Marine or Naval Aviation General. Moreover, the wider the clan, given the specialties and careers of its members, the better. At the top of a pyramide even can be the Army or AF top officer who supports some naval clan, and vice versa. In this paradigm the Russian society is Oriental world, indeed, much like China or Japan.
