On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:14:17 -0500, JohnH
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 07:48:59 -0500, Eisboch
wrote:



Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

I know that is Navy speak, Doug, but what is a BT1(SW)?

It's a rate (in other words the job or work area, what the Army calls
MOS I believe) and rank. I was a boiler tender, in other words a ship
propulsion engineer, Petty Officer First Class (E-5), and a surface
warfare specialist.

Like the rest of us, Doug is a little fuzzy in the memories. :-)
A Petty Officer First Class is an E-6. A second class petty officer is
an E-5.

Couldn't the Navy have come up with a better adjective than 'petty'?
That sounds so...petty.

I stopped bitching about the Navy when a Corpsman literally saved my
life.

Now the Army, that's a who different story. :)

Later,

Tom