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Originally Posted by 3catcircus
Did they give you the "what if you get out and get a job you don't like?" spiel to try to get you to re-up?
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Noooo. The last thing they wanted me to do was re-up.
The boat and Squadron were really cool about it and it meant a lot that they were trying, but talking with my detailer painted a different picture. They had guys still in the training pipeline with no where to go.
By '92 the diesel boats were long gone, the 594s were history, and the 637s were all on the way to decom. The cold war was over (mostly) the same as Desert Storm. Attack boats don't do well when peace breaks out.
Its like hanging around a party late at night when the keg starts to pump foam. Sometimes its just better to split and hear about all of the horror shows that went down, later.
After I got out, I heard from some of the guys who had re-enlisted early and things went down about the way I imagined. How you did your job was no where near as important as how good you looked while you did it. A guy in his 30's could get rung up based on body fat % and kicked out. If they had re-enlisted with a bonus ($$$) and got the heave ho, the Navy wanted that bonus money back- RIGHT NOW.
I'm pretty sure some of the guys in the training pipeline were offered an early out after they finished A school, but don't quote me on that.
There was no where to go and nothing to do- besides getting written up over petty BS, and it stayed that way until 9/11.
Almost missed it, I did all of my sea time in "7". I was homeported in Sasebo, Japan and Pearl.