U.S. Navy Unveils New Logo and Tagline, "Forged by the Sea" – gCaptain

Ya know, Recruiting is all well and good but lets be honest. They want new untrained people in because they can pay them next to nothing and use them as slave labor, As they did me for 8 years (and I loved it) till after Vietnam was over and they got the idea that they did not need the "War ratings" so much as the electronics groups, so they started cutting back the Senior Enlisted. They kept an over abundance of Captains and Admirals, but the ones who knew how to keep the Ships running and the Aircraft Flying they got rid of. I P&A'd E6 twice because there were no Open E6 billets but yet I was filling an E6 billet as an Senior E5. That is where they sent me when I reenlisted because all three of my Dream Sheet requests were unavailable. So after my tour I was given the option to stay an E5 or get out. needless to say I got out. SIX MONTHS LATER I get a call from my Detailer, the NAVY needed my MOS. I was ready to jump at the possibility I told them meet me half way and I will sign. Give me the stripe you held from me for over a year, and give me 6 months back pay and I will be at Fort Jackson the next day. Well they could not do that. As a Rookie tailboard Fire Fighter, I was making twice what I was making as a Senior Second Class with 8 years of service and 4 years as a E5. We may have been FORGED BY THE SEA, but we were constantly screwed by the Pentagon pencil necks who would not know the difference between an "Zebra" hatch and a ward room door.

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Sigh...yrs ago, idmnearlymgone Navy, I've mentioned elsewhere my Dad was. If USAF OTS had said no, I would've gone Navy nuc enlisted the next day, and tried for OCS after I'd gone in. There was a recruiting poster that'd captivstedmme, showing a Perry class frigate fantail moving off into an ocean sunset with the caption, "Your road to adventure starts here." I've heard all manner of such 'shipping over music" if you haven't seen the term, it refers to Navy bands playing in a dockside or quay in past centuries to try to get passing guys to enlist. I only mention that not because I don't understand the piece, I do, of course, it's just that, after awhile, one, even if somewhat jaded, perhaps, tends to become rather insensible to such clearly Madison Ave. Advertising approaches, or those dreamed up by recruiting staff. I don't denymit"'s a good slogan, kind of another Navy version of the Army old chestnut "Be all you can be," if you will, it's just that some recruiting marketing group of geniuses clearly dreamed it up, obviously. At least to me, I just thought I ought to perhaps point out the obvious, if nothing else. I'm not saying that to be a wet blanket, only to illustrate a point, of you will, OK?