Something that hasn't been mentioned about jets right now (especially true for the Navy side) is that if you go jets, you have a VERY high likelihood of making career goals. Guys in my YG (moved up to '99) will not have to do much more than make it through DH without pissing anybody off to make CO. Of course to not make DH, I think I would have to drunkly stumble out of my car that I drove through the front of the skipper's house, french kiss his wife, punch his dog, and kick him in the nuts. Well... at least be able to fog a mirror.
Right now to make O-5, you have to get your ticket punched as a DH (again, fog the mirror). So, even if you never get to be skipper, you will still retire with O-5 pay. The aviation side is where they make up their lack of O-5s in other communities, so now that we're leaving almost as fast as the other warfares, they are REALLY hurting for O-5s and O-6s.
I don't see retention getting a lot better, so it's likely that guys getting winged today will be in a similar situation unless something like 9/11 happens again.
Right now to make O-5, you have to get your ticket punched as a DH (again, fog the mirror). So, even if you never get to be skipper, you will still retire with O-5 pay. The aviation side is where they make up their lack of O-5s in other communities, so now that we're leaving almost as fast as the other warfares, they are REALLY hurting for O-5s and O-6s.
I don't see retention getting a lot better, so it's likely that guys getting winged today will be in a similar situation unless something like 9/11 happens again.
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