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You know how TOS has department logos? Well the Navy has the same thing, worn on the left sleeve next to the rate stripes or chevrons. http://www.navycollege.navy.mil/pipelines1.html
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Here's a scan of the enlisted and officer ranks from a magazine they gave me. The rank of Fleet Admiral (O-11 5 stars) is reserved for war time only. The last Fleet Admirals were in World War II. Fleet Admirals during that war were Chester W. Nimitz, William D. Leahy, Ernest J. King, and William F. Halsey.
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Warrent Officers are trained experts in one feild as opposed to commissioned officers who are trained in all feilds and leadership styles. For example a helicopter pilot is usually a warrent officer because they specialize in one feild.
In order to become a warrent officer you must have an associates degree or a degree from a technical school.
There are 3 levels of service in the armed forces.
Enlisted/NCO - E-1 through E-9
NCO/enlisted soldiers are required to have either a High school diploma or a GED and are usually trained by the army to specialize in one job/feild.
Warrent Officers are required to have an associates degree or some other type of 2 year degree. WOs are experts in their feilds.
Commissioned Officers - in order to become an officer you must meet one of the following criteria
- Direct Appointment - Military Academy ie. West Point, Annapolis, Air Force Academy etc. - OCS or OTS - College ROTC
In either case you must have a 4 year degree.
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Please! Send more information - all of this is extremely useful! I've been searching for over a year now to find such stuff, but keep falling short of the mark.
Any more such info for the navy/army/air force would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!
Is this place and its members kewl or what?
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Well I talk to my recuiter today, it is possible to take college courses while out to sea. I'm trying to have my 5th year EW enlistment dropped. This way I finish a 4 year college diploma and my contract at the same time when I'm 24. If I actually decide I like the Navy, at least I can become an officer and the chance to fly.
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SALVATION! SALVATION!
Word now has it from a Captain (that's an Air Force Captain, not a Navy one) that Navy ROTC will be sailing into Daytona Beach next semester! Though I'm trying not to get my hopes up too high just yet, I'm excited enough to warrant a some Caplocks and a litle UBB Code.
Keep your fingers crossed!
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That's cool. Unfortunately both of my high schools, Pensacola High School and Fort Dorchester High School had Air Force JROTC.
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Um, I'm in college, Hobbes. I'm talking about real ROTC, not that 'junior make believe get a ribbon for starting a fire with nothing but some sticks and a match Junior ROTC.' No, if all goes well, in four or five years or so, I'll be your boss.
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If all goes well, in four or five years I too will be an officer, hopefully an F/A-18 pilot.
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quote:Originally posted by OnToMars: There is. I believe its 25 or 27 or thereabouts. And they're retiring the Tomcat, any Tomcat pilot doesn't have much of a future as a Tomcat pilot - I doubt they're even training them anymore.
And supposedly Tomcats are bitches to fly, or at least to land. It takes one crafty motherfucking pilot to land one of those on a carrier.
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I do not believe they are training very many more Tomcat pilots anymore, I think they are replacing it with the JSF. And yes they are hard to land. They are the fastest and heaviest interceptors in service right now. And they have to be the coolest looking planes since World War II.
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I recently read that the older Tomcats are being retired. However the F-14D Super Tomcat will remain in service until about 2008 to 2010.
I made a logo for myself, EW Hobbes.
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That 2008-10 for the Tomcat sounds about right: tht's when the F-35 JSF is coming into service, which should fill up anything that hasn't been taken by the F/A-18. Good luck.
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Say, what do those diagonal white bars on the uniform sleeves represent? I saw a flim a few weeks ago and two army guys had a whole forearm of them.
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