Thanks everyone! (^_^)
It turns out I did a lot better on the exam than I originally thought. OUt of a possible score of 80 points, I made 75. Meanwhile, the average for this exam cycle was 52 points. I thought they were pulling my leg at first when I started getting comments like, "You smoked that test!" and "Rhodes! You blew that shit outta the water!"
Rod: I got my eyes on Warrant - at age 29 I don't have much chance at scoring a good O-package. Besides, on certain matters a Warrant Officer commands a little more respect that a regular Commissioned Officer. Got my eye set on making positive changes to the Navy.
LOL! Bob: funny you should mention that. Now I have to go to Petty-Officer Indoctrination. The Navy is weird this way among its enlisted - it's almost like a caste system. You have your Seamen (E-1 to E-3), your Petty-Officers (E-4 to E-6), and your Chiefs (E-7 to E-9).
Kurisu: Like Star said, I'm a Gunners Mate and I've been in for a little more than three years. Though I wish I had joined a few years earlier - then I would have got my rate at the big Green House where there was a lot more hands-on training. It's a big greeen-glass building at NTC Great Lakes thats been condemned because all the glass is leaded. Of course, they can't really get rid of it because it was made by Germans as part of the reparitions from WWII. IIRC, they had actual systems for Mk45 and Mk75 guns, the Mk13 and Mk26 missile launchers, and Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes. (One of the wooden shields that kept people on the outside of the building from getting blasted whenever they fired air-slugs still bears the mark of a tube-cover someone forgot to remove.)
Once again, thanks everyone! (^_^)
It turns out I did a lot better on the exam than I originally thought. OUt of a possible score of 80 points, I made 75. Meanwhile, the average for this exam cycle was 52 points. I thought they were pulling my leg at first when I started getting comments like, "You smoked that test!" and "Rhodes! You blew that shit outta the water!"
Rod: I got my eyes on Warrant - at age 29 I don't have much chance at scoring a good O-package. Besides, on certain matters a Warrant Officer commands a little more respect that a regular Commissioned Officer. Got my eye set on making positive changes to the Navy.
LOL! Bob: funny you should mention that. Now I have to go to Petty-Officer Indoctrination. The Navy is weird this way among its enlisted - it's almost like a caste system. You have your Seamen (E-1 to E-3), your Petty-Officers (E-4 to E-6), and your Chiefs (E-7 to E-9).
Kurisu: Like Star said, I'm a Gunners Mate and I've been in for a little more than three years. Though I wish I had joined a few years earlier - then I would have got my rate at the big Green House where there was a lot more hands-on training. It's a big greeen-glass building at NTC Great Lakes thats been condemned because all the glass is leaded. Of course, they can't really get rid of it because it was made by Germans as part of the reparitions from WWII. IIRC, they had actual systems for Mk45 and Mk75 guns, the Mk13 and Mk26 missile launchers, and Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes. (One of the wooden shields that kept people on the outside of the building from getting blasted whenever they fired air-slugs still bears the mark of a tube-cover someone forgot to remove.)
Once again, thanks everyone! (^_^)