The eight years is broken into active, reserve, and/or inactive reserve service. The enlistment obligation specified on the various rating pages represents the active duty portion of that eight year obligation.For example, the Master at Arms rating requires a four year active obligation, and the...
Officers in the U.S. Navy are also paid well. In fact, the starting pay for a Navy ensign is about $37,000 a year. This is just their base pay; they also get allowances for housing and subsistence. In addition, many Navy officers get special pay such as sea pay, flight pay, haz...
But there were reserve battleships and reserve destroyers, besides ships which had been out of commission which had to be manned as quickly as possible.At the beginning of the war there were 361 vessels ready for service, including twelve first-line battleships, twenty-five second-line ...
Finished my enlistment wiht two years sea duty aboard USS Bainbridge DLG(N) 25 the first Nuclear powered Destroyer in the Navy. Two WESTPACs to Vietnam and home to begin an academic career and later to join USNR as a Corpsman. Retired 01 Jan 1998 with 25 years active and Reserve ...
The results of the ASVAB determine enlistment eligibility for all branches, active duty, guard, and reserve, of the armed forces of the United States (Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Navy, and Space Force).Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)...
Effective October 1, 2011, Cryptologic Technician - Maintenance (CTM) has been made an active duty only program, and no longer available as a Navy Reserve rating. Cryptologic Technicians (Maintenance) perform preventive and corrective maintenance on electrical and electronic cryptologic and ancillary sys...
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Aaron Alexis, the man responsible forMonday’s massacre in Washington, served in the U.S. Navy Reserve for four years. But the frequent descriptions of him as a veteran killer are disingenuous and dangerous. They reveal nothing about his motivations, though they may off...