Air Crew

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Permalink Reply by Charles Charmichael on March 25, 2011 at 12:43pm

This is a very unfortunate situation for the RSS candidates.  My son DOR'd from RSS and spent a lot of time in no-man's land.  No counseling on a job in the navy, no information on what he can do.  Nothing.  The navy "leaders" were silent.

 

As a dad, I watched my son work diligently for nearly 2 years leading up to RSS only to have his dreams crushed.  And this is after passing every test they gave him, and finishing NACCS.  He did not fail anything at all. No discipline problems, no disrespect.  Just one day a chief walked in and hammered him till he quit.

 

Yes they should get to go into dry aircrew school.  In hindsight - my son says - RSS is a very bad choice for a rate right out of boot camp.  If you want to be RSS, go do something else first, then strike for RSS after you already have a rate.

Permalink Reply by Charles Charmichael on March 31, 2011 at 4:08pm

After this ordeal, I have done some reading on the Navy public websites, and it looks like you can find out how "full" a rate is by reviewing the CREO list.  1-undermanned, 2-manned, 3-overmanned.  Basically you want to get in a rate that is a 1.

 

Guess what rescue swimmer is ranked.

        

        E1-E4,         E5,     E6

AWR -  3,              2,       2

 

Wish we had known about this before going in.

Permalink Reply by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on March 31, 2011 at 4:30pm

ALL rates are virtually over-manned these days according to the powers that be.........