He's thinking, but, just watching as his wife - he's a cryptologic LINGUIST - and the stress of being expected to keep up on his language as well as having to keep up on being MILITARY - both of which are jobs unto themselves - wear on him. We're really not sure how cryptologic linguist in the Marine Corps differs from cryptologic technician in the Navy (we know how it differs from Cryp Tech in the Marine Corps), so we might be talking about two very different things.
From all the linguists I've talked to - none of them are re-enlisting as linguists. That's part of why the re-enlistment bonus for Cryptologic Linguist is so freaking huge. NO ONE DOES IT. The only people that do are the people that lat-move INTO it, it seems to me.
It's also frustrating that it's SO HARD TO GET PROMOTED. (This may be different in the Navy) He's been an E-3 for two years. And very near the top of the list, too. Never been disciplined, top marks on everything - they're just either NOT PROMOTING ANYONE or only promoting like - 3 or 4 people each month. They didn't promote anyone to E-4 for like the first YEAR he was eligible for it. It was ridiculous.
He says mostly the things that piss him off are classified things he can't talk about.
CTRs have never had a lot of problems getting promoted because there are so few. The jobs are also quite different in the fact that CTRs generally don't have languages and the chance this person is going to be doing something different than what they were trained to do is higher than for a linguist.
From all the linguists I've talked to - none of them are re-enlisting as linguists. That's part of why the re-enlistment bonus for Cryptologic Linguist is so freaking huge. NO ONE DOES IT. The only people that do are the people that lat-move INTO it, it seems to me.
It's also frustrating that it's SO HARD TO GET PROMOTED. (This may be different in the Navy) He's been an E-3 for two years. And very near the top of the list, too. Never been disciplined, top marks on everything - they're just either NOT PROMOTING ANYONE or only promoting like - 3 or 4 people each month. They didn't promote anyone to E-4 for like the first YEAR he was eligible for it. It was ridiculous.
He says mostly the things that piss him off are classified things he can't talk about.
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