Well if you have to tell people you walk on water . . . umm . . .
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Is SWO Really That Bad?
- Thread starter JWL
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exNavyOffRec
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I have noticed that those who seem to believe they walk on water are often those I know that end up falling flat, this is both officer and enlisted.
They don't always fall flat; I can think of examples who have done very well. But those examples were never respected by their peers, only by their reporting seniors. As I watch the AC machine churn through folks I served with, I'm less cynical about it that I used to be, because I've seen some good folks be rewarded well. But there's still been a few "that person got WHAT?" And in all cases, said person was in love with the aroma of their own flatulence. This is the hazard of our stack-ranked promotion system; if you're not careful, you start to believe your own FITREP writeups.
Being a good SDO is the worst thing you could ever shoot for. You always want to be in the bottom third of SDOs. Good enough to not need extra duty for training but bad enough that you're not in the list for "guys we can trust to be SDO when things are tough."
Sad trombone noise
