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With women in the ranks and the PC climate all the GOOD ones are banned. The E-Nothings even have stress cards that they can use if the DIs are being too mean!!!!LMAO on the cadence,
Women in the ranks certainly would make a difference. Hard for me to imagine how that could possibly work.With women in the ranks and the PC climate all the GOOD ones are banned. The E-Nothings even have stress cards that they can use if the DIs are being too mean!!!!
Thanks for sharing your experience. Seven years at sea is a long time.Chow swings through a wide range of quality depending on the meal,(B,L,D.) budget, motivation of the folks stirring the kettles, etc. I saw good food officers take care of the troops and some indifferent ones who were less interested. With 7 years at sea, I ran run the gamut from superlatively prepared Thanksgiving dinner to breaking the edge trim on a table with a hamburger bun that was a bit hard. When coming to a new ship, it was also normal to have some flu like discomfort and after that not have any problems in regards to food service. YMMV
Wasn't all at once.Thanks for sharing your experience. Seven years at sea is a long time.
Sounds like a career in the navy?Wasn't all at once.It was spread out over 20!
Sure can't complain about not enough shore duty! Is jetcal1 code for ADJ1?Wasn't all at once.It was spread out over 20!
Sure can't complain about not enough shore duty! Is jetcal1 code for ADJ1?
My rate hardly ever went sea. Our only sea billets were PLAT camera support on the carriers.
Cheers,
Wes (TD2)
I thought it was '88. In any case, long after my time. In '90, I was flying with a First Officer who was a TD for eight years and withdrew his request to re-up when informed he was going to be converted to an IC and his promotion to TDC cancelled because the rate was being abolished and IC was already top-heavy. He was about to go from TD1 with three years in rate and a promotion date to Chief to IC1 with zero time in rate. For a guy who had been a fast tracker in the TD rate, that seemed a bit of a kick in the teeth. He landed on his feet, though, as he had accumulated 1400 hours flying time and all his licenses except ATP in Navy flying clubs along the way. GI Bill took care of the rest. He flew with us as FO for only ten months, then upgraded to Captain just before we went Chapter 11. Eventually retired from Delta as an international Captain on one of the big Boeings (forget which).TD went bye-bye in 84?
It works fine. Among the professionals, competency is the deciding factor....either you hold your own or you don't. I've been retired almost 15 years, but stay connected to the active force for other reasons. Today's kids grew up together on the sports fields. It's matters less and less to them someone's sex or even persuasion. As for 'diddling,' it obviously still happens, but again, the behavior choices comes down to being professional or not.Women in the ranks certainly would make a difference. Hard for me to imagine how that could possibly work.