What is the best job to get the most action in the Coast Guard, eather search and rescue or with using ur weapon? whats the best job cuz my husband to be likes the action but is confused on whitch job is the best for action. ty.
If paper blowing off your desk is action, or the ID card machine went down with 9 people waiting, then be a YN
If the warehouse bringing a pallet of supplies over is action, be an SK
If standing in the freezing cold while a new JO attempts to qualify with a pistol, and the whistle freezes to your lips is action, be a GM
If typing paperwork for discipline and babysitting thirty 18 year olds who can't seem to stay out of trouble is action to you be a BM.
Every rate has it's moments of excitement followed by hours of supreme boredom. I recommend when he gets to the fleet he can observe what people do and make an informed decision.
Its funny you say that about GM's Chief, as I was an SAI in Detroit, with a JO, in Feb. outdoors, and had I not had a plastic whistle, it would have frozen to my lips. Got to love those non firing JO's
if by action you mean, well...action, then AST (aviation survival technician). hands down. from the school all the way into the job, rescue swimmers get all the action. but it's the hardest of them all to get. GM is, to me, a more technical rate. i wouldn't say it's got a lot of action. shooting guns doesn't have action, it's like taking pictures... point, shoot. that's about as much action he'll see, unless of course he goes somewhere working out of rate in law enforcment or something. most of gm work is pushin papers, counting, log keeping, training, etc. not really the rate to pick if he wants a heart pounding, spine tingling rush. those usually just occur by accident. but it is a good rate to go if he likes the mechanics of small arms, understanding what make them tick, being able to have the satisfaction of teaching others how to properly use them. it can be a very rewarding job... depending on what he likes. hell, i like it.
me too. but not ASTs. you have to meet a physical requirement that exceeds normal BTM/BO requirements just to get INTO the school. taclet also means that he will invariably spend months away from home. but that's inevitable in any service, really.
For LE MSRT, TACLET, MSST. For SAR then AST all the way. Im at a MSST and if he can get on a MLE/FP team at a MSST or at MSRT he will get to go to some of the best schools out there, (i.e. V.I., ATOC, and so on).
For LE MSRT, TACLET, MSST. For SAR then AST all the way. Im at a MSST and if he can get on a MLE/FP team at a MSST or at MSRT he will get to go to some of the best schools out there, (i.e. V.I., ATOC, and so on).
What are all these abv. I'm leaving for bootcamp soon and starting the process of picking an rate im interested in. AST interest me for excitement reasons and seems like you are around your home more often. What are these others??
For action you may want to consider joining the Army Airborn. There looking for young men seeking a lot of action and you get to Jump alot if your into that sort of thing. What could be more thrilling than having people shooting at you and wondering seriously whether you will make it through the day or too the end of the street. Peace, Dick
I would have jacked up the Duck for placing that poor human into a position of taking defensive action, possibly increasing the heart rate and leading to a coronary.
Yer fergit’n Steve, I watched you cook. Ever wonder I never got underway without at least 5doz bigmacks?
I think just about all our jobs will grow hair on yer nutz ... the 82' guys used to head out in all weather, then launch the 4-meter "mankiller", and put on a line on a demasted sailboat in a trough so deep, you couldn't see the cutter.
The EM's would rig out a burned-up 100 hp motor out of the engine room - U/W. Two chain hoists and seven come-alongs later, a big comber comes, chain hoist let's go, motor goes swingin'. Tell me that isn't exciting?
How about 47' MLB crews ... I don't think they're just "bayliner cruising" out there.
Young people think your adrenaline needs to be jacked to the nines ... just not so. You'll get all the adrenaline you need being offshore and trying to figure out which, out of a thousand lamps, is the channel range light ... am I in the channel ... is there a deadhead in the water ... will a wave catch me from behind and pitchpole me ...
Even the senior guys have fun ... downbound on the river ... good swift current, bridge coming up and "where's my steering?" Or when the deck crew let a buoy go over the buoy port, but didn't remove the horsecollar from the chain stopper ... in a nasty little chop, narrow channel. Damn buoy beat us to death, the old man aged about twenty years trying to manuever in a constricted channel with one screw ... and the buoy threatening to smash anybody who came near the stopper.
Yah, I never did jump out of a helicopter ... it was SO boring ...
Don..I can't believe you said that..that was cold but not as cold as the water and oatmeal you lived on to retire..fatboy.
If only you had,nt stayed up to eat my midrats..noway you could have had midwatch everynight...you just could,nt resist..homemade fresh bread..and jealously does,nt agree with you. sc
Ya know, the oatmeal diet & divorce got me down to 210, the reconciliation/re-marriage then transfer to the MSO put me back to 250. The MSST brought me down to the “classified” weight. The pool/bbq/and always tapped keg at my retirement villa have taken my weight to a never before seen 280. I figure it’s almost time to pull my head out and get back on the fitness bandwagon. I once heard that the goal of retirement is to pull 2 times the retirement of that served on active duty out of Uncle Sam. I was pullin the leg Steve, my only complaint of your cooking was never enough.
Boy now i feel like a azz..sorry don..i must be getting a little thin skin..in my old age..sorry to hear about your divorce too..your friend..steve
ps..for the record..i never really thought of you as fat just husky..with those shi-t kickers on in the trinadad and in DR..hiati..you were someone not to mess with..
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