Chuckman
Senior Member
I was at Ft. Bragg for work on Wednesday, at the Special Warfare Medical Group, and hanging with my Navy homies. I was waiting for one guy to get off the phone, and when he did he told me this story, the call he was on. Bear in mind the military recruitment and retention issue, and how hard it is to recruit into anything special operations.
There was a CS (Culinary Specialist, a mess crank) in the Navy reserve, who wanted to crossdeck to HM (corpsman) to go Special Operations Independent Duty Corpsman (recon and MARSOC). His PT scores: 1.5 mile run, 6 minutes, his 500m swim, 6 minutes, 80 push-ups/2 min, 90 sit-ups/2 min, 18 dead-hand pull-ups. Neither the reserve nor his detailer wanted to release him to crossrate into HM. Typical Navy. You have a guy extraordinarily qualified and motivated, and you tell him, "nah, man, you're good, and you're going to stay a CS...." This kid reaches the Navy contingent at the school house, so the Senior Chief I was hanging out with called and chewed some ass, got the kid released from the reserve, active duty orders, and a spot at corps school.
It is crap like this I do not miss about the military.
There was a CS (Culinary Specialist, a mess crank) in the Navy reserve, who wanted to crossdeck to HM (corpsman) to go Special Operations Independent Duty Corpsman (recon and MARSOC). His PT scores: 1.5 mile run, 6 minutes, his 500m swim, 6 minutes, 80 push-ups/2 min, 90 sit-ups/2 min, 18 dead-hand pull-ups. Neither the reserve nor his detailer wanted to release him to crossrate into HM. Typical Navy. You have a guy extraordinarily qualified and motivated, and you tell him, "nah, man, you're good, and you're going to stay a CS...." This kid reaches the Navy contingent at the school house, so the Senior Chief I was hanging out with called and chewed some ass, got the kid released from the reserve, active duty orders, and a spot at corps school.
It is crap like this I do not miss about the military.