If you're looking for predictability and stability at home, the Marines are the last place you want to go.
Navy aviators rotate between sea (deploying) and shore billets on a regular basis; i.e., you go to Sea for 36 months, then to Shore for 33 months, etc. Once you're in that billet, you stay there until your rotation date, maybe +/- a couple of months depending on deployment and when your next job needs you to show up. And you know where you're going next (as far as squadron/shore/school/staff), when you need to be there and how long you'll be there.
Judging by the Marines I work with here in P'cola, you're pretty much at the mercy of the Corps' whims and needs as to when you go to a new job and you're liable to get yanked off to do something else much earlier than you planned. The guys I work with seem to have no real idea where they'll be going next or when. It does give them a much more Zen, be-here-now approach than the Navy guys, but I'm not sure that's so much an advantage. They might know what they're up for, or what they need to do career-wise (e.g., "I haven't done a FAC tour yet, so I bet I'll be going at some point"), but that's it.
Marines, is that an accurate impression?
Navy aviators rotate between sea (deploying) and shore billets on a regular basis; i.e., you go to Sea for 36 months, then to Shore for 33 months, etc. Once you're in that billet, you stay there until your rotation date, maybe +/- a couple of months depending on deployment and when your next job needs you to show up. And you know where you're going next (as far as squadron/shore/school/staff), when you need to be there and how long you'll be there.
Judging by the Marines I work with here in P'cola, you're pretty much at the mercy of the Corps' whims and needs as to when you go to a new job and you're liable to get yanked off to do something else much earlier than you planned. The guys I work with seem to have no real idea where they'll be going next or when. It does give them a much more Zen, be-here-now approach than the Navy guys, but I'm not sure that's so much an advantage. They might know what they're up for, or what they need to do career-wise (e.g., "I haven't done a FAC tour yet, so I bet I'll be going at some point"), but that's it.
Marines, is that an accurate impression?