[sweetmtn]

When my son was at boot many years ago, the only thing he wanted to be a PO for was the religious RPOC..he didnt get it, but was glad later he didnt. He saw several guys become one, then get fired from it later. Apparently it is kind of hard to keep those positions, and if you get fired from it, you then become a stand out and noticed by the RDC's. Now once he got to fleet, and even before while in his A school and all though nuke schools, he was a stand out. Fortunately or not, he was a jock, so they always wanted him for PT instruction. When he graduated from nuke school, he was second in his class. In fleet his annual evals averaged mostly all 5's...not a too easy thing to do as a nuke on a carrier. He managed to get his quals done in under a year...for those going nuke...strive for that if you want to be noticed, it does help.