Well, Ms Walker and Mr Bowling are well into the slating process and it seems we have another year of assignments that clearly show me there is NO ISSUE at all about the availability of Afloat Tours for our Petty Officers. At the E-6 level, every person who presented an E-resume asking to go afloat on time, who had demomstarted even reasonable on the job performance, got orders afloat. A VERY small number who submitted afloat e-resumes were not issued orders afloat as their was a slight competition amongst the applicants. Want to know how to make sure that happens for you? Performace counts! Amongst people with like assignment priority, evals are a very strong tie breaker!

For those below E-6, the AOs are begging for more people to ASK to get afloat jobs and will end up selecting and directing folks who did not put in a reasonable afloat eresume. Want to be competitive to get a job high on your desired list? Put in for it an PERFORM in your current duties!

Good luck
MC

Good news for those dying for seatime!

Very good news, hope I got one of my picks...

It varies each assignment season and obviously with paygrade. Generally speaking, folks not eligible for OSC, E-6 and below make the cut. For Chiefs - generally those w/o a cuttermans pin. Ir varies slightly, but those are good rules of thumb.

Let me stay at sea and if I die wrap me up in a hamock and slip my body over the side in tradition of when the ships were wood and the men made of iron. Oh yea give me that sea pay.....

Coastie 1996,

If you don't want to go to sea, you could always turn down the advancement!
If not, you'll be a Chief underway, just think about that... A CHIEF UNDERWAY.. I'll let that sink in for a min!! Congrants on making Chief!

My question is, why do so many people avoid sea duty? YOU JOINED A SEA GOING SERVICE, HELLO???

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Originally posted by dipstick12:
My question is, why do so many people avoid sea duty? YOU JOINED A SEA GOING SERVICE, HELLO???

Actually, we are not primarily a sea-going service. The fleet makes up a very small percentage of the entire Coast Guard. As well, we do more Homeland Security and Search and Rescue than anything and both of those missions are usually conducted within territorial waters, on rivers, bays, and even inland.

The Navy, on the other hand, is a service that functions primarily at sea.

Here is somthing that might get new E-7's interested in getting u/w....the coffee is better in the Chief's mess.

I agree we definitely are not the Navy and "HAZE GREY UNDERWAY," however, do we have any authority over anything on land other than our bases? No, we have small boats and cutters, most of which are smaller than the Navy's to suit our specific missions, which are all on the water, i.e. Sea Going (or in my present case river flowing). None the less, you should expect joining the Coast Guard you will be on the water at some point in your career which is my point.

PS All of our shore unit stuff is to support operations at sea. Even air stations conduct search and rescue from the sky, still supporting mariners who are operating at sea.

Good grief, I'm starting to sound like a BM.

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Originally posted by dipstick12:
I agree we definitely are not the Navy and "HAZE GREY UNDERWAY," however, do we have any authority over anything on land other than our bases? No, we have small boats and cutters, most of which are smaller than the Navy's to suit our specific missions, which are all on the water, i.e. Sea Going (or in my present case river flowing). None the less, you should expect joining the Coast Guard you will be on the water at some point in your career which is my point.

CG is in charge of land SAR on Guam so yes we do... =-)

You are confusing 'authority' with 'responsibility'

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Originally posted by Mightyz90_93:
It varies each assignment season and obviously with paygrade. Generally speaking, folks not eligible for OSC, E-6 and below make the cut. For Chiefs - generally those w/o a cuttermans pin. Ir varies slightly, but those are good rules of thumb.

Is that a cuttermans pin in rated seatime?

I hadn't though of that - but I guess someone with your brain power could have been a five year non rate!

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Originally posted by Mightyz90_93:
I hadn't though of that - but I guess someone with your brain power could have been a five year non rate!

DAAAAAAMMMMMNNNN LOL

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originally posted by dipstick12:
I agree we definitely are not the Navy and "HAZE GREY UNDERWAY,"

easy there OS1..some of us are haze grey and underway. hehe.

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Originally posted by 0psnrml:

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originally posted by dipstick12:
I agree we definitely are not the Navy and "HAZE GREY UNDERWAY,"

easy there OS1..some of us are haze grey and underway. hehe.

Yes, a few are Haze Grey and Underway......For those of us/you on a 378,270,210,110...You are Bright White and Out of Sight!

All black and forever posting the red and greens... (No OS's on any of those though...)

I've said this before. We're a service with sea-going traditions, not necessarily a sea-going service.

Agree or disagree, as the trend to "minimum man" ships continues it will be more difficult to reverse the trend.