Yeah when I went to my quals half my instructors were Civ ex Navy or Sailors It was a decent job. Actually shorty was in your position she wanted to go to sea and stay Norfolk and they demanded that she take a shore job in SD. I think part of the reason was she just didn´t want to go to SD she wanted to stay in Virginia. I guess the issue was Big Navy didn´t want to change her orders. She seemed to be what we call in the army ¨High Speed¨ because she was an E6
Yeah I knew the detailer (person who cut orders) and he did me a “favor” (I guess) by giving me the orders I got because I wanted to go travel and shyt and not sit at a desk all day.
But hindsight 20/20. I liked SD enough to stay, and I was already doing some of the teaching shyt (which is why they offered me that spot) but I felt like it was going to be a headache with moving, shipping shyt, and I would only have like a week to do all that once I got back so I just said fukk it, I already had the orders I had.
But more than one way to skin a cat. She got to do her thing regardless It seems. I ended up leaving that detail anyway because it was stupid shyt. Like if motherfukkers knew you were trying to get deployed they would do whatever they could to make sure you don’t and only send the people they wanted (or those that didn’t want to go out).
I was trying to get my Sea quals and shyt but gave up after a while and was just ready to leave.