Operational as well. Normal progression would be Boot, A School (where you learned the basics of your Rate) then C school (which covered the tech training for a particular piece of gear) Spots in C school training were hard fought enough that about the only way to be sure you got one was as part of your enlistment package. I didnt, cause I was striking for Submarines. I didnt realise I'd had psych issues even back then, so when I was found Psych unqualified for subs instead of getting out I transfered to surface training in hopes of being able to re-qualify.
84 to 87, aboard USS Arkansas (CGN-41). Deployed in 86 as part of the Enterprise Battlegroup... with a homeport in Alameda. People sometime still wonder why I find Chekov's quest in "The Voyage Home" to be so hilarious.
In the end...Well... Lets just say that every time personnel reviews came up I was always 4.0 in the tech side of the job but 2.0 on the military bearing and discipline sections. Its taken me most of the 20 years since then to accept just how unready I really was then. Maybe if I'd waited and matured a bit more before enlisting then... but thats all water under the hull now.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
84 to 87, aboard USS Arkansas (CGN-41). Deployed in 86 as part of the Enterprise Battlegroup... with a homeport in Alameda. People sometime still wonder why I find Chekov's quest in "The Voyage Home" to be so hilarious.
In the end...Well... Lets just say that every time personnel reviews came up I was always 4.0 in the tech side of the job but 2.0 on the military bearing and discipline sections. Its taken me most of the 20 years since then to accept just how unready I really was then. Maybe if I'd waited and matured a bit more before enlisting then... but thats all water under the hull now.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children