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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If you want to judge the stripes, go ask a technical question. If you don't get the right answer, then you know why. Otherwise, he's done his time, a glitch means nothing.
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It took me awhile to earn my gold stripes and hash marks. I feel that it should stay as it always has been. You have to have 12 years continuous good conduct, and it should remain. If not, then it like giving everyone a medal for participating.
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I wore gold when I retired, but the only difference was the color of the hash marks. When you retire the pay is the same, RED OR GOLD.
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The Navy is changing the regulation to make it so you get gold stripes at 12 years regardless of good conduct.
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Everyone thinks of you wore red stripes you had to have done something wrong. My best friend was a chief that wore red strips because he came over from the Army where he rode a tank in Vietnam. I know another chief that had broken service at the 10 year mark, where he got out for 6 months. And they both were top notch Chiefs.
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I have served for over 34 years. We had a CSTX and on the exercise I was captured. This led to an intense reaction and left me with a GOMAR in my record. Believe it or not standing up for regulations and walking that thin line can lead to an Article 15.
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I'm always reading about some officer losing his command or his position due to a failure in judgement or some other infraction. It seems to me that if the Navy were just, there would be at least a few red-stripe officers running around.
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Never cared. My shipmates were there with because the Navy thought they were worth it. If they didn't rate gold or red, they became civilians.
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