Posted on Jun 2, 2017
To the Navy members.... What is your opinion of Red vs. Gold Service Stripes?
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I am researching the history of Service Stripes for all services, but am curious about the Navy's version. I understand the regulation, but I am more curious about the general feelings toward those who wear the Red Service Stripes after 12 years, knowing something has kept them from going Gold. How do your feel about this person if you were...
a senior?
a peer?
a subordinate?
a senior?
a peer?
a subordinate?
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I was on my way to retire with gold hash marks, but one serious lapse of judgment shortly before I retired led to an Article 15 Captain's Mast and I ended up retiring with 5 red stripes. Doesn't matter to me, I still get my pension every month!
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CPO Roy Thornton
SGM Frank Marsh - Actually CPO Frocking is a 12 month cycle you might get paid the day you put it on or the month before the next frocking it was done by seniority I was paid 3 months after I was frocked. That said a Chief cannot be busted by his commanding officer only a summary court marshal.
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SGM Frank Marsh
this happened to two of my neighbors. wore the chief stripes, did the job, didn't get the pay for 6 months..norfolk va area
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SR Kenneth Beck
I had broken service (7 years 6 months the first time). When I attained 12 years of continuous service it was time to retire.
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All the stripe color meant to myself and peers back in the day was gold meant you weren't caught. Other that that, a pure yawner. For those who thought it was critical for them, they usually had an ego problem. I had a career E-5 who kept getting busted back on a predictable schedule. But there wasn't anyone you'd rather have painting the countryside with Ma Duce. A true artist.
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Sgt Den OBrien
How did Nathaniel Hawthorne ever get to pass the decision for the USN to "red stripe" ? lol
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One of the best E-8s on my ship was a guy who had the distinction of being selected for promotion to every single rank twice. I am against my he zero defect mentality and I think some of our best warriors are guys who don't rate gold.
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CPO Roswell Echols
worked with a AO! who had a brother in the deck division that had more time in the navy than him and made BM3 and retired the next year
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CWO2 James Mathews
I never got the chance to wear my gold stripes, but I know I earned them, and so does the Navy, and for me that is all that counts. Like all my shipmates, I made many mistakes when I was in service, but I was always lucky, or had someone who valued me enough to get me through it without going "To Mast' with the Captain! As to being curious about the persons past, outside of a good story, I have little interest, unless the individual proves to me that he or she is unreliable! In my view, the 'red stripe - gold stripe' question should be retained by the Navy. It is a good idea, and should be kept in the Navy. Let the other services develop their own method of awarding such good standing.
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CPO Arthur Bivens
I do believe that with the gold and red it creats a goal to say that I AM ONE OF THE BEST AND NOT A PROBLEM CHILD FOR THE GREATEST NAVY in the WORLD.
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