Being sucessful in the Navy or any service comes down to what you want to make of it. I was in the Army in a time they wanted to get rid of people and then next thing you know we had a war. I changed my MOS 3 times from combat engineer basically land mine sweeper, to recon where changed from fighting in woods to urban warfare alot of street survival skills, and ended up in non combat engineering unit similar to seebee's (carpenters, plumbers, electricians, heavy equipment operators). Ended up learning construction CPM's, cannot draw using cad understand it, seen jobs go from stakeout to gps layout also equipment having gps on them, and learned how to mange large site-work jobs. When I got out didn't have trouble finding a job. Uncle sam paid for my B.A. and Masters.
Just take the good with the bad and its what you want to make of it. After 1st 4 years or 6 years you can decide if you want to make a career of it. Good luck.
Yes, we had someone like private pile in full metal jacket in AIT for Heavy Construction Equipment. 1st day on the crawler tractor/dozer it was funny. Imagine a line full of dozers ready to go straight with instructions in cab with each student. Then imagine everyone going straight trying to do V-ditches and then private pile in a dozer coming right infront of everyone. Funny now, but you just had to be there to see the instructor freak out.
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