Are you sure it's not retirement that's causing retention problems? :icon_wink
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SWO vs Supply, Pros and Cons: Decisions Decisions
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Are you sure it's not retirement that's causing retention problems? :icon_wink
What a stupid post. Seriously???
All URL communities that I know of give bonuses to retain officers after their initial obligation. SWO, Subs, Aviation, and SEALs for sure do. It's a standard practice.
@tiz: According to the SWO community brief, they're in the red for officers at the O5 and O6 levels. My guess is that it's a Navy wide problem. Senior military officers are highly sought after in the private sector. That's that a supply-specific thing man.
This is like the twilight zone. In all of the dozens of pitches I've heard for every community out there, I've never heard someone pitch Supply like this.
Ship gets a Tomahawk launch order, basically put such and such missiles at point A by this time. While you're at it try not to fly over shipping in the area, and don't violate airspace to the endpoint.
STRIKE(or whoever is the ECO) plans out how to get the missile from the ship to that point with those constraints. From there, the mission package that was uploaded to the missile takes over and it does its thing. In other words, we really have no idea what we're shooting at specifically.
It's complicated to explain who really "runs" AEGIS...there are a lot of players(lot of enlisted watchstanders) involved with the different roles, but the JO overall responsible for the hardware would be the Fire Control Officer.
VBSS is pretty much on a volunteer basis. You're required to have at least 2fully qualified BOs, and the BO is typically going to be an O-1/2. An E-6/7 can do it too if necessary. The real hard part would be convincing your chain of command that they can afford to let you go TAD for about 1.5 months of training...so you should show good progress on quals before that.
snizo
Supply Officer
A good number of Supply types are prior E's who hit their 20 yr mark as an O-3 or O-4.
Thisguy
Pain-in-the-dick
My bad. I bow to your vast fleet experience and community knowledge.
Come back after you've done a couple deployments and you'll understand those retention bonuses a little better.
FCO mainly just oversees Aegis maintenance. The people who actually run it are the Aegis techs...SPY, FCS, Computer, and Display. It's high profile so the CO and CSO are always asking about it.
I guess it's run like most other Weapon Systems; a team effort.
I've done several deployments and I've never heard Supply talked up this much, not by Officers or Enlisted.
High bonuses go to challenging, undermanned (normally) jobs. Supply is a much smaller community; nothing compared to SWO. What doesn't make sense is some people are saying that it's hard to keep Supply guys in because of a demand in the Civilian world, and at the same time saying that Supply doesn't have a high bonus. I'm guessing this is because retention levels are high? So are people getting out or are they staying in?
Hey, new to the board. Looks like I'm in the same boat (pardon the pun) as the rest of you guys. I'm up for the Feb board and my top 3 choices were SWO, Intel, and Supply. I don't think I'll be getting into Intel, don't have the grades or OAR score, so it'll most likely some down to SWO and Supply. My Recruiting officer pushed me towards supply heavily but I wanted SWO as my first choice because it gave me more of an oppurtunity to make it into Intel or another field. And it just sounds more exciting. While if you are Supply you usually just remain in Supply and sit behind a desk. Although if I did Supply, going to school in Athens wouldn't be so bad. I live 45 minutes away from Athens, I recently graduated from Georgia Southern, I spent many a weekend in Athens and have a few friends there. I hear Suppos can make quite a bit of money when they get out, what kind of industries/companies look for navy supply officers?
The Renegade
LT, SC, USN
.m0tbaillie
Former SWO
Boy oh boy somebody lied to you...
snizo
Supply Officer
Take a look back through the pages of this thread. Some good info here (some bad info here, too, so take with a grain of salt).
Bottom line - supply folks don't just sit behind a desk. In fact, of all the staff corps jobs, we spend the most time doing operational stuff. Lots of money to be had as a civilian with supply corps experience in the business/finance areas of any industry. Supply School in Athens is closing and moving to Newport (I think early 2010?). If you've got anything specific for supply, shoot me a PM.
I.e sit behind a desk on the ship, on the staff, etc.