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Why do you think so many people are under the impression that life isn’t what it was in the Navy, and do you think that’s a sentiment shared by some of the greener entrys? Perhaps the sudden surge in applicants and the recent announcement by the government that they’ll be investing more into the navy might remedy the current manpower issues.
Your rose tinted glasses will fall off eventually. Might take a full draft but be prepared for it.
There’s always two sides to the story, some people seem to hate the navy in it’s current form, whilst others are quite happy. I know of a lad who left after his minimum term who must’ve obviously hated it but then just the other day I spoke to a bloke who seemed adamant that now is a great time to be signing up (and no he wasn’t an careers advisor) Swings and roundabouts I suppose. In the end I’ll draw my own conclusions.
It is a case of what you are prepared to put up with. If you really love the RN (and many do) it will take a great deal to shake you out of the tree. On the other hand if you're finding the whole thing a struggle and the ever shifting sands are preventing you making definite plans for yourself and your family. I experienced both. For the first 12 years I loved it then 18 months later I was gone. You won't know which category you're in unless you give it a go.Never hurts to be optimistic!
In fairness what was made clear to me from the beginning was that these days if you join up as a submariner it’s highly unlikely you’ll manage a transfer to GS unless you go completely bonkers.
Never found your way to the goofers deck then?
Round Cape of Good Hope, flat calm, Alpha deck ready for entry next day, turned to middle of middle watch re rearrange cabs on deck, port catwalk peeled back over the flight deck and the thirty nine steps for the next three hours and some soggy pits in the port frd PO's mess I think
.Remember most (some of most of us) of the peeps on here jioned up many years ago, the modern mob has changed and what you will experience won't be the same, todays life expectations are quite diferent to what most of us had when we jioned up, ever changing world and all that, ever changing world for better or worse depending on your vewpoint, some good and some not so good!!Never hurts to be optimistic!
In fairness what was made clear to me from the beginning was that these days if you join up as a submariner it’s highly unlikely you’ll manage a transfer to GS unless you go completely bonkers.
When I was on the Rusty B the port fwd gun sponson was the greenies mess outside rec space.
Brazen?Round Cape of Good Hope, flat calm, Alpha deck ready for entry next day, turned to middle of middle watch re rearrange cabs on deck, port catwalk peeled back over the flight deck and the thirty nine steps for the next three hours and some soggy pits in the port frd PO's mess I think
Ahh, should have noticed the plural 'cabs'
Duh, yes, but a lot of times for some reason they had a no goofer policy.
Sadly I was in 4Nz3 deep in the bowels looking after the baby Tiffs - huge spit.
Greenies mess was deeper, I was in 5E1
