Navy officer social life / sex life?
Bosox, I am going to predict that you have a short career in the Navy. Naval officers are professionals. They tend to be highly educated, many having masters degrees. They set an example for enlisted men to follow, and senior officers have high expectations of junior officers. At least once a year officers receive Naval Officers Fitness Reports from their COs (Commanding Officers). There are several areas the officer is rated on, including behavior, professionalism, and leadership. During my career, officers who exhibited the traits you speak of (going to bars, chasing easy women) were not seen fit for remaining in Naval service. Alcohol has been deglamorized, and while there might be a bit of drinking at officer social functions, officers who get drunk are put out. There is very little forgiveness in the realm of Naval officers. Promotions are highly competitive (two passovers and you're out). If you want to stay in for a couple years, heed this: 1. Don't drink in public 2. Don't party around anyone in your command beyond officer functions 3. Don't be anywhere around 'easy' women 4. Don't fraternize with any enlisted, and with any women officers in your command 5. Remember, every word you say, every e-mail you send, every action you take is going to be evaluated by your DH (Department HHead), XO (Executive Officer), and CO. Good luck. I appreciate your patriotism. "Ranger"
How hard is it to become a Navy Seal officer?
To become an officer first is relatively easy. You get into an officer program either by getting your degree and applying, a NROTC program, or Annapolis. However, each of those routes has a limit on the number it allows to apply for Navy Special Warfare. This makes it more difficult to get from officer to SEAL. I believe you'll find that fewer than 3% of a class are selected to try out at BUD/S. Furthermore, if an officer rings out or washes out, he's effectively out of the program. Hardly any get another shot at it. The good news is that, because the selection criteria are so strict, most of them are among the 20% who make it through the pipeline. To become SEAL first, and then try for officer is going to be extremely difficult... compared to becoming an officer first, it's going to seem impossible. You'll need at least a baccalaureate going in. You'll have to consistently demonstrate the kind of leadership abilities for which the SEALs are searching. You have to be a 4.0 sailor. You have to do it better and cleaner than everybody else. And, then, either you have to make your desire for a commission known to your command during evaluations, or you have to luck out and be recommended by your command... or both. In either case, it's going to be up to your command. If you get shot down, do yourself a favor and don't to over their heads. BUD/S is going to test your limits... right down to the core of your being. You have no idea. You can't get it from books, or from movies, or from documentaries. You have to go through it. Probably during his career, a SEAL operator will compare a particularly difficult part of some mission to some training evolution. But the purpose of the training is to prepare you for the really tough stuff to follow... part of the reason for their motto, "The only easy day was yesterday." Before you begin an evolution, if anybody were to ask you, you'd probably say it was humanly impossible. You either change your mind and do it anyway, or you become one of the approximately 80% who don't make it. I didn't go to Annapolis. I went to college, got my degree in three years and managed to letter in swimming two of those years. Then I enlisted in the Navy at 20. When it came time for me to reenlist for my E-6 somebody apparently discovered the degree and recommended me for OCS. I retired at 45.
In the Royal Navy, can a Rating become an Officer?
It happens a lot in some branches, e.g. Engineering, and less in other, e.g. Steward. It normally takes qualifications and diligence. Those qualifications are much easier to get in an engineering branch, as you need them for your job. You ask your Divisional Officer if you can have your CV papers raised, in other words, become a candidate. If he thinks you up to it, he will recommend you sit the Admiralty Interview Board (AIB). If you pass that, it's a matter of being selected, and Robert's your mother's brother.
What is the easiest naval officer job with the least stress?
If you are looking for an easy stress free job, please do us and yourself a favor and look elsewhere than the US Military. That job simply does not exist. SFC US Army Retired
Is it hard to become a merchant navy officer?
Yes & No.YES… as in these times shipping is in the doldrums & overstaffed with institutes churning out candidates faster than there are jobs available so you have to wait sometimes for over a year for suitable employment unless you have terrific contacts, in which case you have no need to ask this question.NO… once your in, then you just need sincere work & attention to your profession to pass your competency exams & move up the ladder quickly. No superior intelligence or strength required, an average Joe can do it just as well as Mr. India.
Is being an army/navy/air force officer more respectable or an IAS/IPS/IFS etc?
Was scrolling down and hit upon this question. Could not resist myself so here is my take on it :)My father qualified the NDA exam and served the Army before taking a premature retirement and joining the civil services as an IPS officer (Indeed he did this in his first and last attempt !)I eventually found that you can never take the Army out of the soul of a veteran. My father's friends and their conduct totally stands out. They respect Army to core and have never involved in cheapness of unbecoming conduct. They are epitome of perfection.My father is totally in awe for what the Army has given to him and he keeps reverting back to his memories at NDA… being thrown into the deeper side of the pool in swimming classes, being provided with a horse and asked to learn horseriding by himself through falls and bruises, excruciatingly painful classes and the eventual control of human fear!I don't know about the societal expectations of prestige ! Its subjective! But I feel tremendously proud of my father who is an Army Veteran, who served in Siachen, who sacrificed the playfulness of the youth training in a field that metamorphoses boys into the best of men !Army of a nation symbolises character of a nation and should be deeply respected and loved by the people. To compare it to anything else looks odd to me. :)
How much harder is it to become a Navy SEAL officer instead of an enlisted SEAL?
Well we all go through the same training pipeline initially (I.,e., we all go to BUD/S, Jump School, STT (or SQT now), etc. However, Officers also go to some Army school as well for some sort of leadership training (but doesn't make it any “harder” for them).That said, generally speaking, it is much harder for an officer than an enlisted guy because there are far fewer Officer billets for BUD/S than there are enlisted billets. Thus, even getting INTO BUD/S as an Officer is difficult to do. Only the best Officer candidates will ever even see BUD/S. Which is also probably why many student officers (not all, but many), DO make it through and graduate. Which is no easy feat. In BUD/S it pays to be the grey man. Just move through day to day without drawing attention to yourself. For Officers, they are tasked as boat crew leaders, class OIC, etc. So they are already under a microscope from day 1 constantly being badgered by the instructor staff.So the bottom line is that it is tougher to get in as an officer but it is not easy for us enlisted guys by any means. Same BUD/S training, etc.
Is the Navy any easier to get into than Marines?
it's much easier to get in (some the of the guys my hubby worked with were complete morons - couldn't read or write), but to stay in, it's true that you need to be in good physical shape - I've NEVER heard of the college thing, EVER
Is the Merchant Navy exam easy or hard?
What i perceived about nautical exams either from deck or engine dept., It is neither difficult nor easy. It is diametrically pivotal on the dedicated endeavours you put with sincerity towards the respective syllabus slot assigned for.There are two ways to clear exams which are as follows:1- Being a crammer, mugging-up the designated course very well without reasoning the logical aspect of the problem mathematically and theoretically. Consecutively, one clears up the exams anyhow after hammering his head monotonously.Due to such protocol of accomplishing compitency, One is prone to cause accidents and emergencies onboard endangering the safety of ship and lives of other ship mates altogether, it is evident that duty officer found held responsible for the havoc/casualities took place onboard, MAIB UK(marine accidents investigation bureau) promulgates such reports routinely,pls refer.2- Secondly, cracking out the exams by broaden horizon of logics and reasoning is a key to achieve compitency and coming out as a bombastically skilled sailor.Guru Mantra: whatever batch/course/exam you have booked.Just attend your classes religiously without skipping. Most importantly whatever you are taught in the class, just come back to your room and revise that to have a hand on with mind on, Engage in group studies to solve tricky problems. Having done it routinely the burden of exams and stress shall not overwhelm you at the end of the day.Also, try to analyze the single problem keenly, find other ways by yourself to solve the same problem with other patterns, mostly in NAVIGATION and SHIP’S STABILITY.It was my way which i above texted out for your kind perusal, i found it suitable for me and made me secured 100% in navigation atleast.Choice is yours cos nothing else matters.Good luck