On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:47:39 -0500, DSK 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.

Kewl. I was always baffled by the Navy designations for enlisted.
Never spent any time ship board (except for the occasional training
float).

Rather meaningless gobbledygook except to others who once lived in the
same neighborhood

Hey, I was a plain old rifleman - nothing fancy about that. :)

One of the exercise anybody can do is to learn to read military
insignia, especially ribbons. You can read someone's career at a glance
if you learn a few dozen, and easily seperate the desktop warriors from
the guys who are the real deal. Plus it's kind of interesting IMHO.

Heh. Yep.

Later,

Tom

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.

Eisboch

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:57:28 -0500, "JimH" wrote:

My thanks to all you Veterans out there for your service to our Country.

Thank you!


I second that. Despite the various factions who have in the past, and
still in the present, attempt to denigrate their service, l hold that
this country would not be what it is today without the sacrifice of
those who did what was right.

Dave

You're welcome!
G

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My thanks to all you Veterans out there for your service to our Country.

Thank you!

"JimH" wrote in message news:x5mdnXAl_s1N8g7cRVn-

My thanks to all you Veterans out there for your service to our Country.

Thanks for the thought, Jim, and my thanks also to all the other vets.

And to those who serve in other ways. I have a two good friends in my town
whose sons are Marines in Fallujah. My God, I don't know how they carry on.
Thirty-five years ago I didn't give much thought to what my parents were
dealing with. Sometimes I think it might be easier to be able to shoot
back.