Originally Posted by
rickair7777
You know this, but for the edification of others...
The USNR holds RC hardware operators in VERY, VERY high regard... that will very much grease your career skids.
HOWEVER you can't stay there forever, unless on command track. Even then, you can't blow off all the other stuff. You also MUST do PMEs and also whatever your designator career profile has in the way of key milestones (including AQDs) ... those are laid out in the ppt that is shown to every board, and every officer should look at that ppt annually (it's on the BUPERS RC promotion pages). I've actually helped hardware guys earn specific quals "on the side" while assigned to a squadron to ensure promotion and apply assignment.
In my case, I got hurt on an Afghan deployment, and got sucked into the MRR vortex, which basically sticks you at your current command and screws you out of any ability to do something other than be "Spare O-4 #3"
No ADT, AT has to get run on a waiver to a 2 star I think.
And in the case of command support.. Once it hit the NOSC, support stopped and I basically got the "get your shot, what are you afraid of" speech. I was told at one point that me not getting vaccinated as an officer set a "bad example". I had it out with the NOSC command suite at that point and gave zero ****s anymore. They tried to hardsell me on a pg13 that I couldn't make a statement that I was signing under duress, then threatened Art 15 procedings, to which I said I would decline that and demand CM.
They care about two things. Making checkblocks green and their careers.
There are very few leaders left at the O-6 and above in the non flying Navy Reserve.