wink said:Wasn't the mini job always for non screened O-5s? I had two squadron department head O-5s go to the air dept. in the mid to late '80s. The Boss had been a squadron skipper and as I recall the guy who got the Mini job was a non-screen guy. By the way, the guy that got the Mini job was rather short of stature and refused every one of the white flight deck jersys the ship had prepared that said "Mini Boss". He insisted on being refered to only as the "Assistant Air Boss" . Trashed the tradition because of his own lack of self respect and pettiness. Maybe that is why he didn't command?
I always assumed the mini worked his way up to boss? Two of my old skippers both went to mini-boss tours, one in 99 and the other in 2000. Though as far as I know, neither of them stayed on for an Air Boss tour.