The dinner rolls were safe when I left, fortunately.
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Please Don’t Do This
- Thread starter edwardnygma
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You wimps got dessert before CandiO?
During Thanksgiving weekend our class team allowed us to get one piece of dessert per meal….however, there was nothing left after H-Class went berserk on all the candy…y’all should have seen them eating, I was almost impressed
No. That rule has stayed the same.
WannaFlyHigh
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Officer Training Command Newport
You get dessert??? Cheesecake!! AOCS 1979, dessert consisted of jello. Bonus points for eating the red jello so you puked red after the cross country run. Scared the crap out of the DIs. ?
I know there’s typically one AI (1830) per squadron. Does an aviation squadron typically also have officers of the 1520, 63X0, or 73X0 type?
One way is to be in medical school.
FormerRecruitingGuru
Making Recruiting Great Again
Or get in trouble haha
Short answer - yes.
Longer answer - the number of ground officers depends on the size of the squadron. VFA and VAQ typically have one Intel O, one Gunner, an Assistant Maintenance Officer (largely responsible for squadron manning), a Material Control Officer (MCO), and a Maintenance Material Control Officer (MMCO). VFA squadrons will also usually have an Admin LDO or Warrant Officer. Expeditionary Growler squadrons have also in the past (not sure if it’s still a thing) had an IP Officer in addition to their Intel O. My squadron’s ground officers (CVW VAQ) are a mix of warrants, LDOs, and professional mx officers.
Yes. Many of the SWOs at OTCN are stashed there waiting to class up at SWOS for Dept Head School. They have a less than enthusiastic outlook on life. My own class officer was a SWO and made it sound horrendous. I remember when I got the NAMI whammy and SWO was the only option besides Nuke, his pep talk actually made me nearly DOR on the spot. Sadly, my first ship lived up to all of his negativity.
Yes, it's a shore tour assignment. Not many people put it as their top choice. Usually it's a hot fill billet because so many don't want to go there.
I wonder if I know that 4 year ensign. I knew 2 people like that in Mayport.
There are a couple of ways. One is you fail to get qualified in your first tour which impacts you with punitive actions (fail to promote, can't transfer, get kicked out, etc.). The other is you have done some seriously illegal things and have either been prevented from promoting or your promotion is held up while you wait to go through court martial. It's very rare and is almost always the fault of the officer.
There are many threads on the topic. Frankly, there are a lot of toxic personalities in the community and in the past it's been a real meat grinder, chewing up and spitting out most of its officers. The community has done a lot to turn itself around but there are still long hours, a lot of time away from homeport, high OPTEMPO, and a general poor quality of life onboard ships. Some of these are determined by your CO/XO and personalities in the wardroom and others are endemic to the current state of the Surface Navy as a whole. In short, there are many reasons why the DH sign-on bonus is well over 6 figures for those who sign up to go back to sea.
exNavyOffRec
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The closest I can come was I knew a nuke who left after 5 years (about 1996), with a SWO pin but as a LTjg, not sure what he did but he came to us at about the 3.5 year mark as a LTjg and stayed that way.
FormerRecruitingGuru
Making Recruiting Great Again
We had a stash ENS who had ~4 years of commissioned service with us.
Long story short she popped for cocaine on a drug test as a SWO, lawyered up/appealed it and ultimately was allowed to stay to finish her NROTC obligation.
After she was stashed with us (about 3 months) she ended up getting a nice job in the DC metro area, starting salary around $125K/year from what she told me.
Probably works with the DEA!
To OP: I knew a young woman who did 4 years USNA, graduated high in her class, and wasn’t commissioned due to a medical thing. She would have given anything to become a SWO.