Regarding....
Levers_Aligned said:
The Warfare Branch does have a healthy throughput, but that is largely due to the fact that the branch is a competitive ******'s oasis, full of boorish ***** who believe that emerging from the hellish pupal stage of junior Warfare Officer (in which they are subjected to all sorts of dehumanising Tom Brown's schooldays japes and hatred) suddenly makes tham into steely-eyed destroyer captains-elect. It's bollocks, of course, because no sooner have they gained their thin stripe than they are tugging their forelocks to a grander **** in the Captain's chair who will destroy any compassion and guile and create a neighing, ******** who has only regard for one thing, that is itself.
....the unadulterated flattery and cocksucking that takes place and the venal backstabbing of colleagues. I could accept it if it was covert, but most of the ship's company detect when a Warfare Officer is in zone.
*****. All of them.
What a bunch of chippy arrogant bitter biased unadultered bollocks. Levers my man, having admired your contribution for several months, I can now categorically state that you, Sir, are a lying, warped, cock-sucking, goat blowing, syphilitic pussball of a stinking grease monkey with a twisted view of a branch that, historically, has thought very highly of the badly-dressed, overweight, uneducated, awkward nob-jockeys of stokers' babysitters that litter the messes of this great Navy of ours. I hope your house burns down this very night, taking with it all your Diana-souvenirs, boring dits and "amusing" ties, and you lose the use of at least one of your tattooed sausages that you call limbs. Fuck you, with bells on, and pull your (undoubtedly ginger) head from your arse and take a long hard look at yourself.
To answer the question originally posed - for the first 12 or so years of a career, the Warfare branch go to sea almost continuously, with only occasional shore jobs or courses, which is how (as naval officers) should be. The Logistics officers, after their initial training - (IST, Fleet Time etc) go to sea twice - once as a Deputy Logistics Officer as a junior Lt, and once as a very senior Lt (rarely) or junior to mid-seniority Lt Cdr as the Logistics Officer. They also do not watch keep except at Action State, can delegate everything to their utterly professional Senior Ratings, and can therefore spend evenings at sea with the WE officers drinking wine and watching DVDs. The question that you have to ask, above all other considerations such as job satisfaction, career progression is:
1.
Do I want to spend at least the next decade at sea, on a ship that is probably going to be based in Plymouth, watchkeeping continuously with very little shore time outside of short courses (until PWO course)?
If Yes, then (and only then) look into the Warfare vs Logistics debate, preferably with someone from one of those 2 branches rather than the most spiteful and unbalanced person who I have ever read on the internet (except Toobis the Canadian - Google him!). Feel free to PM me for a proper chat if you want, I'd be delighted to have an adult conversation about the subject!
For my tuppenceworth, as a seafarer who likes going to sea
(and would rather stick razor blades in my intimate palces then work at Abbey Wood, where engineering types ejaculate in to the "lovely moat" and swap episodes of Star Trek for a night with their own wives) - it's a great job. You get a lot of responsibility early, it's hard work with long hours, and you go away a lot. But by being on board ships more often than not, you get a feel for the Navy in a way that no other branch does. Like any branch, there are wankers in it, but if you've only had 2 sea jobs, and you've been unlucky to serve with one, then at least you'll be adult enough to realise that they're the exception. By the time you're halfway through your second OOW job, you'll have more sea time than the MEO, WEO and LO anyway, so you'll get a more rounded picture of the different branches than certain people do.
Tattoodog said:
Quite a few people who join as Warfare Officers tend to rebranch when they find out that they are not all reincarnations of Nelson as they were told on JWO course
All the JWOs (or IWOs as they are now stupidly called, thanks to some passed over ME Lt Cdr looking for an MBE to add to his collection of **** genital warts) I have ever met neither think, look, or act anything like Nelson, and although the training's tough - it has to be. A baby OOW is legally (yes, that's legally) responsible for the lives of everyone on board that ship. Even the non-combatant smelly types.
