Today, I found out the date for my FOB and also found out that I got picked up for ELT. They tried to get me to sign sub-vol papers, to no avail, but I held out and got what I wanted regardless. Today was a good day!
Your tour of duty will be easier and less challenging on a target. I understand the advantages in access to schooling etc. but the experience on the boats can't be matched on a carrier. Having worked in a number of environments in CivLant, power plant, DOE, ACoE, and other cleanup/decommisioning projects my experience is that more bubbleheads are in advanced positions than surface sailors.
All of that aside you are still in a much more challenging program than the average bear and thank you for your sevice.
"That's just my opinion I could be wrong." D.M.
I do have a very clear bias
Ex MM1(SS) LELT/EWS and current Base Commander of a United States Submarine Veterans Chapter.