phrogpilot73
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What if you don't get enough hours for the airlines?!?Wow, this is crazy. If I ever get in, it's for life.

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What if you don't get enough hours for the airlines?!?Wow, this is crazy. If I ever get in, it's for life.
Unfortunately not...I must be the only dumbass who's complaining about not enough deployments...
HSL guys are not getting a lot of 2nd cruises as well. With the hit/miss of det manning, and the unwillingness/feasability of getting people to a boat underway
This part stumps me. Even when carriers (and their attendant Battle Groups) did blue water ops as SOP, they still managed to get dudes aboard/ashore for myriad reasons. I wonder what happened to bring on this mentality.
Wow, this is crazy. If I ever get in, it's for life.
Harvey- Dies with salt
But what about the current commissioning trend of too many people selecting SWO and those at the bottom of the SWO pile being "encouraged" to select NFO? That suggests to me that more people are looking for the quickest way out of the Navy. I think my current commissioning class reflects this attitude- of the 14 of us I'd say only 2 are thinking right now they'd like to make the Navy a career. Even the ones in my class going aviation or subs with a longer commitment think they don't want to do more than the minimum. I think it will be interesting to see what happens with the commissioning classes of these recent years in 5 years down the road.
Agree wholeheartedly with one caveat - don't lie to them. I was within 6 months of my terminal leave date and one of the young enlisted guys (my RTO) asked me where I was heading after the Battalion. I told him that I was getting out, and he asked why. I explained that my wife was active duty, and that it would have been damn near impossible to co-locate with two careers in two separate services, and that it was a long discussion, and a hard decision to make. If you're bitter - be professional and gloss over it. Up until my last day, I was still selling retention to the young guys. My RTO is currently in BOOST, so I guess I did good with that sales pitch...RetreadRand said:3. Most officers would not and should not talk about leaving in front of their E's...it is irresponsible and unprofessional, especially when (in my opinion) encouraging enlisted retention is part of your job...and while there is a lot of scuttlebutt amongst the E's you won't know all the information of what is going on amongst the officers
Up until my last day, I was still selling retention to the young guys. My RTO is currently in BOOST, so I guess I did good with that sales pitch...
I get 10% of his flight pay and bonusWere you working for commission? *rimshot*
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I'd say that you have hit the nail squarely on the head. Considering your past posts on this forum, it was surprisingly not bitter. You did forget the guys that are single up to their 30's...It boils down to this. The military is NOT a job, it's a lifestyle, the same way being an airline pilot or a corporate executive is not a job it's a lifestyle. After 10 years you either like the lifestyle and have come to grips with all it's oddities and accept your place in life, or you don't. If you don't, then you get out. It's not the money, the benefits, the days of vacation; it's the match of the person to the organization.
As for me, I've opted for a new lifestyle. Will I miss this one? Parts of it, you bet! As you grow up so do your priorities. For me it was when my son asked me to work at Burger King so I wouldn't have to go away anymore in my airplane and we could eat hamburgers together everyday for dinner. You just don't think about that sort of thing when you are 24 in the orgasm and excitement of your first fleet tour blasting into jungle strips in the Bataan islands blowing over cattle and kids on bicycles with your prop wash.
The military is NOT a job, it's a lifestyle, the same way being an airline pilot or a corporate executive is not a job it's a lifestyle.