Re: Are these USS Kitty Hawk uniforms worth buying off eBay?

>  So I can see how in some rates it would not be uncommon for a hard
charg'in,
>4.0 sailor to retire an E-6.
I remember the AZ's and AME's had it pretty tough (due to very limited
number of billets to advance into).

Larry




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>
>
> >"victims of the rate". Just not enough billets to promote them all. All I
> >could tell them was "hang in there, keep up the great job and your time
will
> >come".
> >
> >
> >Larry
> >AECS (AW/SW/MTS)
> >Disabled Combat Veteran
> >USN Retired
>
>
> "Victims of rate", this is or was the case with AT's, I encountered this
going
> from E-3 to E-4, then again from E-4 to E-5. As a four year guy, I started
out
> life as an AR, graduated from A school as a ATAA, mean while the 6 year
guys
> were graduating as AT3's.
>   Then after doing my TIR, and finally making AT3, I once again
encountered the
> "victim of rate" the AT3's (rent-a-crows) were graduating from AFTA
(advanced
> first term avionics school) or AFTA-births as we called them, getting
ready to
> take AT2, while I was installing tracking gear on rotor blades,
paralleling
> generators, changing the "greenhouse" window after the Q/A chief stepped
> through it, etc, etc.
>   But I really can't complain, I did my 4, and got out, and thanks to my
> "nothing but a black box puller" "O" level career, spent the past 16 years
> doing it on the civilian side for a much better pay and no sea duty. ;)
>   So being a "victim of rate" work out great for me.
>   So I can see how in some rates it would not be uncommon for a hard
charg'in,
> 4.0 sailor to retire an E-6.
>
>                                                         J
>
> BTW,  as for those who say, the numbers are figured out before hand, and
the
> Navy takes only so many AFTA guys and regular guys its BS. I like many
others
> who make there required time to graduate, we were ask if we were to extend
for
> 2 years, you can walk out of school as a E-4 instead of an E-2. Fortunitly
for
> me 1989 sounded like forever in 1983, I passed, many other did'nt.
>
>