[Newsbot]

Title: Great Lakes deployment to bolster Navy recruitment
Category: Military
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-08-25 20:00:44
Canadian

[sookite]

well maybe the TB should approve the spec pay we have been asking for. As a naval communicator for 24 years and years of IT training, its a little disheartning to have a jr rate from another trade getting spec pay making close to what I make as a Snr Navcomm that is responsible for an entire section. No wonder this trade is having a hard time keeping the new guys in the trade. If the TB answer in Sep is no again, there will be nobody left in this trade.

[Regina]

Great Lakes deployment? They don’t any farther west than Sarnia.

[travior]

Of course, you know that the US will have to deploy in kind. Can't have the Red Menace to continue bolstering their forces on our border, especially after the Moon Attack on our purely defensive spy balloon.

[Freakinoldguy]

sookite sookite:

well maybe the TB should approve the spec pay we have been asking for. As a naval communicator for 24 years and years of IT training, its a little disheartning to have a jr rate from another trade getting spec pay making close to what I make as a Snr Navcomm that is responsible for an entire section. No wonder this trade is having a hard time keeping the new guys in the trade. If the TB answer in Sep is no again, there will be nobody left in this trade.

I hate to burst your bubble, but it'll never happen. Spec pay is basically enshrined for "certain trades" and to give it to other deserving trades would diminish the worth of these elite trades.

This fight has been going on since the 60's. I can remember when our trade took over demolitions and small arms from the WU's who we're a spec pay trade. We stupidly assumed that since we'd taken over about half of their trade we'd be entitled to spec pay. Not a fucking chance.

Even as I sit at this computer 40 years later people are still trying to get spec pay for our trade and I suppose if I'm around in another 40 years I'll probably be making this same post again for another sailor who can't figure out why the fuck only a certain small group of specific trades get Spec pay.

[stokes]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

sookite sookite:

well maybe the TB should approve the spec pay we have been asking for. As a naval communicator for 24 years and years of IT training, its a little disheartning to have a jr rate from another trade getting spec pay making close to what I make as a Snr Navcomm that is responsible for an entire section. No wonder this trade is having a hard time keeping the new guys in the trade. If the TB answer in Sep is no again, there will be nobody left in this trade.

I hate to burst your bubble, but it'll never happen. Spec pay is basically enshrined for "certain trades" and to give it to other deserving trades would diminish the worth of these elite trades.

This fight has been going on since the 60's. I can remember when our trade took over demolitions and small arms from the WU's who we're a spec pay trade. We stupidly assumed that since we'd taken over about half of their trade we'd be entitled to spec pay. Not a fucking chance.

Even as I sit at this computer 40 years later people are still trying to get spec pay for our trade and I suppose if I'm around in another 40 years I'll probably be making this same post again for another sailor who can't figure out why the fuck only a certain small group of specific trades get Spec pay.

Navcomms and Bos'ns are the only hard sea trades not getting Spec, which when you think about it is pretty piss poor give to all of them and then give the engineers spec 2

[putz]

stokes stokes:

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

sookite sookite:

well maybe the TB should approve the spec pay we have been asking for. As a naval communicator for 24 years and years of IT training, its a little disheartning to have a jr rate from another trade getting spec pay making close to what I make as a Snr Navcomm that is responsible for an entire section. No wonder this trade is having a hard time keeping the new guys in the trade. If the TB answer in Sep is no again, there will be nobody left in this trade.

I hate to burst your bubble, but it'll never happen. Spec pay is basically enshrined for "certain trades" and to give it to other deserving trades would diminish the worth of these elite trades.

This fight has been going on since the 60's. I can remember when our trade took over demolitions and small arms from the WU's who we're a spec pay trade. We stupidly assumed that since we'd taken over about half of their trade we'd be entitled to spec pay. Not a fucking chance.

Even as I sit at this computer 40 years later people are still trying to get spec pay for our trade and I suppose if I'm around in another 40 years I'll probably be making this same post again for another sailor who can't figure out why the fuck only a certain small group of specific trades get Spec pay.

Navcomms and Bos'ns are the only hard sea trades not getting Spec, which when you think about it is pretty piss poor give to all of them and then give the engineers spec 2