Education, leadership qualities, your own ambition?How do you actually pick between if your eligible to be either an officer or a rating?
Is it a matter of whether or not you want a leadership role or is there more to it than that?
Thicker you are, more chance of officerHow do you choose between officer and rating roles?
Depends what I'm trying to get done.
More helpfully:
This is about you, as much as the service. Where do your talents lie? Administrative? Technical? What type of thicker and problem solver are you?
There maybe only two possible outputs, but there are an infinite number inputs.