Thanks for clearing the picture up for me. Still doesn't clear up in my mind why it's not a SWO job. I actually kind of agree with and to a minor extent, understand why the disassociated sea tour is in our career structure; but to another degree, do feel like some of it is mopping up SWO attrition as has been mentioned in this thread.
It's not.
Those SWO billets never existed or haven't existed in a long time.
SWO is actually overmanned at the DH level to the point we literally had to make up a new DH job on AEGIS platforms (somewhat justifiable, but still a +1 from status quo) in order to accommodate.
I do agree it "could" be viewed as a SWO job, but if anything the fact it could really go either way just highlights that at some point, we all have to start learning about things outside just our community/platform.