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Offline SMIDSY

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« on: November 11, 2005, 01:56:14 PM »
on wednesday i was at the navy office for my wednesday meeting. there was a chief petty officer that i had not met yet and he gave us a lecture on the future of the navy. durring this lecture he mentioned that as of 2007, the navy will not accept enlistments or re-enlistments from people without an associates degree. you heard it here first: the army is lowering its standards and the navy is raising em.
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Offline Eden

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« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2005, 02:16:34 PM »
FYI the Army has raised the age of enlistment to 40 years old (without any prior experience).  We are telling our younger soldiers if they act up we will enlist their parents to watch them (literally)

Is this a raising or lowering of standards?
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« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2005, 03:21:20 PM »
If I was under 40 I'd re-enlist in a heartbeat. I'm no fan of sending kids to do a mans job.
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« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2005, 03:29:16 PM »
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on wednesday i was at the navy office for my wednesday meeting. there was a chief petty officer that i had not met yet and he gave us a lecture on the future of the navy. durring this lecture he mentioned that as of 2007, the navy will not accept enlistments or re-enlistments from people without an associates degree. you heard it here first: the army is lowering its standards and the navy is raising em.


Wow...we haven't heard that..I doubt the truth to the re-enlistment part.
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« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2005, 03:55:41 PM »
And where are they going to get the deck apes? (First Division) paint chippers, deck watches, Swab pushers...the largest division on any ship is First division.
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« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2005, 04:16:07 PM »
Yeah, as I understand it the Army is now taking 12 percent with the lowest passable ASVAB rating into service instead of 4 percent (off the top of my head), though I don't know exactly how they work that. Recruting has always sucked as a high stress, low-reward MOS, but it must be a nightmare today. I know when I went through basic in 1985, the number of actual morons was quite small, not counting the average ****ups, or the occasional tool or nimrod (or the handful of dim but effective Forrest Gumps :)).

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Offline SMIDSY

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« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2005, 04:33:35 PM »
the idea behind raising the standards of navy enlistment is that computers will soon be running most of the tech jobs on a ship. fortunately, deck swabbing is easy and can be done by anyone on the ship. a destroyer that needed a crew of 500 will soon need a crew of only 200. Golly-geen i love the navy.
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« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2005, 04:47:59 PM »
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And where are they going to get the deck apes? (First Division) paint chippers, deck watches, Swab pushers...the largest division on any ship is First division.


Uhh.. just run the pay up to $1500 a week or so, simple really.

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« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2005, 07:03:18 PM »
I was debating whether or not to hit up the CB's after I'm done here...
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« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2005, 07:13:08 PM »
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the idea behind raising the standards of navy enlistment is that computers will soon be running most of the tech jobs on a ship. fortunately, deck swabbing is easy and can be done by anyone on the ship. a destroyer that needed a crew of 500 will soon need a crew of only 200. Golly-geen i love the navy.


I see not many here have stood a 4 hour mid watch (12:00 to 4:00)
on the helm stareing at a dimmly lit gyro compass. I wanna see some one hand one of these boys a chipping hammer and a swab.  All the high tech in the world won't stop rust. An inch of steel makes a foot of rust.
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« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2005, 07:58:05 PM »
Raise standards about physical appearance you say? Military uniform and fat-slobs are not compatible (unless navy is involved, in which case, the fatter the better)
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« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2005, 10:13:24 PM »
Well that will make more people available for the army.
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Offline J_A_B

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« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2005, 10:48:36 PM »
"Raise standards about physical appearance you say?"

That's up to the USAF....they don't want the ugly people.


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« Reply #13 on: November 11, 2005, 11:46:23 PM »
i would like to counter that remark. at the MEPS center, there was the most hidious air force master sgt. i have ever seen. he looked like a skinny steve buchimi that got hit in the face with a shovel.
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Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2005, 02:42:31 AM »
Same is happening with the navy here. The percentage ofconscripts on the new ships that gets delivered from now and until 2010 is _alot_ lower.
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