Thank you for your input guys, I really appreciate it.
It is not that I cannot stand, it is that my PCM recommended a job that I would have less propensity for standing the entire time I'm working. As a coner I'd be sitting more, especially an ET-COM (as was already recommended), but I can handle 4 hour watches on mild pain meds (currently permitted and anticipated to be allowed in the future).
If it were not for the HUGE draw of being on a submarine I would have gone Crypto-Tech.
I'm fluent in Spanish, took 6 years of French (read/speak/write well), and know basic Arabic to get me by.
With all of my LIMDU free time I'm doing a lot of learning (Rosetta Stone) and qualifying with the Navy for foreign languages, and also volunteering to spread a better image of sailors.
I know any decision I make will work out well, I'm just looking at my available options; sometimes it's nice to get an outside view.
Best Regards,
NUB.