I'm not the EM who qualified RO. I'm an ET who was on-board when he did.
So, yeah... my DD-214 has me qualified RadWorker, RC Entry Watch, RT, AEA, SEO, TH, RO, EO and SRO (and maybe some more I've forgotten after 22 years).
So, when he posted the above quoted bit, I threw it back in his face - including a listing of everything I'd qualified on board (and I qualified all those except EO and SRO at S8G in New York prior to getting to USS Michigan).
My apologies...I guess I wasn't following your thread as closely as I should have. Let's see if I can catch up.
What qualification above are you specifically "throwing back in my face"? You're posting to an audience of active, inactive, retired, etc Nukes that may have done more than "6 and out" as you have. Your "resume" is garden-variety, but...it represents TREMENDOUS hard work. We've all done it (and much more), so what are you inferring?
The "facts entered into evidence" (as you say) so far are thus:
1. Some buddy of yours stood RO when Navy Regs don't allow it. (Yeah...my error for trying to decipher your bold/italic formatting. We'll do a root cause analysis later). While it makes for good fodder in the Navy Times, I think even they would be bored with that one.
2. You qualified your senior in-rate watch (RO/SRO) and everything else expected of a junior petty officer. By no means a trivial feat...for any of us. However...
3. You failed to qualify anything supervisory.
4. You quit after 6 years.
5. You've returned 22 years later to regale us of your feats and challenges while standing the box with an EM1 standing RO?
When someone tries to do a job in the Navy that the Navy doesn't want them to do (e.g., EM1 coveting an ET1's job), than the EM1 fails. Nothing has changed from 1987 to 2010. (Some of us may have been in before your MICHIGAN days). Let's assume the OP to this tumultuous thread may return someday to see what he started....
EM1...go qualify EWS/EDPO. (You're dink).
EM1...go to prototype and qualify EOOW. (If you're good enough to shim as an EM, you're good enough to supervise everyone).
EM1...get your college degree. (If you're that good...prove it).
EM1...make chief, or come on out to commercial nuclear and make >$100K with no sea duty. (You can't lose here...can you?)
It's really that simple. This thread was dead before "Dave in St. Louis" regaled us with his "RC Entry Watch" resume.
Are we done here? Or, is there other "evidence" as to why the U.S. Navy should maybe cross-train EM1's to do an ET1's job?
Lastly, after a 22 year hiatus from nuclear power, is this your function in life now "Dave in St. Louis"...to tell tales of a "friend of yours" that qualified RO as an EM1? You offer that as some "prize", while I only read failure of your friend to have someone help him with the big picture in his nuclear career.
You omitted your phone talker qual.