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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Pensive's Wetness: [QB] now that i've sat on my ass and played DDO a few hours... i realize that i cant think of anything else say on the subject. pretty much everyone nailed it... (recruiters lie. ALWAYS fucking remember that.) decide what you want to do first and foremost. don't just go with what your asvab scores are. you can always retake (i believe. i'll look that up tommorrow b4 i depart the area on leave) it. and dont assume your going be a BM3 after 4 years, i mean, dont assume you will be allowed to reenlist in the same rating, you joined and trained for. [URL=http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=20773]Perform to Serve[/URL]. PTS is a term i started hearing about back in '03. I never personally payed any attention to it (was a junior 1st at the time and virtually nothing about that stuff affected me and my duties didn't include mentoring to that depth of personal) but kept hearing more and more about it. the link babbles the sanitized version but in how it works from your own prospective view is this. Say that your a AT3, a airdale tron. lets say there are 1000 AT3's in the navy (the actual population of the AT rate is probably in the 10-20k range of personel, both squadron and I-level). now what if the navy only wants 900 AT3 next FY, thru various reasons/determinations (drawdown, loss of actua billets, decoms, etc). Now, with a population of 1k and a population cap of .9k, your rate is overmanned. that does a lot fo things. one, is that advancement stagnates. too many AT3's means, less ATAN's getting advanced, regardless of if they passed the test and thier score meets or excede's the cut off. How does the navy deal with this, with the goal of keeping thier troop levels high with skilled peps? change jobs. we already said that AT3 was over manned. now what if the rate of BM for 3rds isnt? or 2nd class for that matter. teh navy suggests your change rates (or get out). that's it. oh... and if your a dirtbag with shitty evals, PTS pretty much makes sure you get kicked out at the end of your enlistment. i think. it's pretty complicated and generally a hassle if your junior. less and issue if your a dinosaur like me... and changing rate is pretty common and not really the best idea they came up with, specially when rate conversions have occured as high as E-6. changoing rate (especially if it's also communty, aviation to surface, seebee to aviation, submarine to anything else NOT sub or nuke, etc). but they dont have anything else better, to my knowledge (and then intent on what the program is supposed to do, is there. how it serves the navy's needs as a whole... just not to the beinfite to the indivudial). or to put my words in simplisity: Choice yer rate, choice yer fate. you might find that some jobs allow you to sit on your ass while somejobs can litterally break your back. both individualls get the same pay but hardly do the same effort fairly. i seen a lot of Airdales do plenty of game time when they dont have work, as opposed to my rate where we could have work everyday (PM's, down gear, stupid shit, etc) have i scared you enough yet? :D [/QB][/QUOTE]
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