"Why did you join the Air Force?"

[RockmartDawg]

Funny that you should ask.

[UncleJohnsDawg]

Funny that you should ask.

Day-um

[gulfportdawg]

Funny that you should ask.

Served 20 years in the US Navy and never spent any time on a Naval War Ship.

[RockmartDawg]

Funny that you should ask.

Served 20 years in the US Navy and never spent any time on a Naval War Ship.

Interesting. I could definitely see someone serving only on land when in the Navy. But... I would think that at some point there would be some requirement... even if only for a brief period... to be out on a ship.

My thinking goes to what might be sort of a parallel... When I was in the Air Force I worked in communications... never did anything with actual airplanes. But, our "sea duty" parallel would have been serving on a remote tour. There were a small few sites that were only a 1-year assignment because you were in some place like Turkey or middle-of-nowhere Korea, and you manned some mountaintop radar site, microwave repeater site, tropo-scatter site, etc. You weren't allowed to bring your family (for the married folk) and rather than you getting the standard 30 days of leave each year you got 60 days. I'm sure there were some other benefits thrown in as well. Had I re-enlisted after my first four-enlistment I almost certainly would have probably gotten a remote tour pretty quickly. They had to get people rotated in and out of those and spread it out as best as possible.

[gulfportdawg]

Funny that you should ask.

Served 20 years in the US Navy and never spent any time on a Naval War Ship.

Interesting. I could definitely see someone serving only on land when in the Navy. But... I would think that at some point there would be some requirement... even if only for a brief period... to be out on a ship.

My thinking goes to what might be sort of a parallel... When I was in the Air Force I worked in communications... never did anything with actual airplanes. But, our "sea duty" parallel would have been serving on a remote tour. There were a small few sites that were only a 1-year assignment because you were in some place like Turkey or middle-of-nowhere Korea, and you manned some mountaintop radar site, microwave repeater site, tropo-scatter site, etc. You weren't allowed to bring your family (for the married folk) and rather than you getting the standard 30 days of leave each year you got 60 days. I'm sure there were some other benefits thrown in as well. Had I re-enlisted after my first four-enlistment I almost certainly would have probably gotten a remote tour pretty quickly. They had to get people rotated in and out of those and spread it out as best as possible.

I served in the Naval Construction Force. Can't build anything on the water. We flew everywhere we went.