What's the best job in the Navy if I go enlisted and want to become an officer fast?

Question

I have my 4 yr. college degree and I'm going to enlist so i can start at the bottom and work my way up, try to become a commissioned officer after I enlist. My degree is TV/Radio but am very interested in seeing what other jobs are worth looking at. I will score in the 90s on my ASVAB so I will probably have my pick. The incentives are starting to play a bigger role, i.e. signing bonus, etc. as I get closer to signing. NO LECTURES ON (1) I should go into OCS or (2) You shouldn't join or do anything for money, ( I want what's mine.)

Answer 1

it took my husband four years and two submissions of his OCS packet before he was accepted. he went in with a 4 year degree in Math and Secondary Education.

there are ZERO guarentees that you will be accepted for OCS once you enlist. you must stand out amongst your peers as the cream of the crop. what rating you are matters diddly squat. Mine was an FC and he became an IWO( mostly due his age.. he was too old for Unrestricted Line)

you choose your rating based on what you will enjoy doing for the next how many years, nothing else. It won't matter if the advancement rate is throughthe roof if you are miserable and hate going to work each day, because that will show up in your evals.

Answer 2

No enlisted job in the navy prepares you to be an officer. Navy commissioning of enlisted just doesn't work that way. The entire way the navy is setup doesn't work that way. What officers do just does not translate to what enlisted guys do.

The majority of Naval Officers are Unrestricted Line Officers, that means "ship drivers." Many officers that are not Unrestricted Line started off that way and changed designators along the line. Supply Officers and Engineering Officers are not able to take command. They work in their own cloistered environment. There are other, similar, officer communities.

Junior Officers are assigned as Division Officers but it's almost a collateral duty. A Division is similar to a platoon in the Army or Marine Corps. The Chief or Senior Chief runs the Division.

Understand something, the chances of you getting selected for an officer program are small, very small. If you want to be an officer then go into the navy that way. But hey, what do I know? I'm just giving you my 22 years worth of experiences (1974-1996).

Answer 3

I am in the Navy and have been for just over 12 years and your best bet is go OCS. If bonuses are an incentive, the officers, depending on their job, get alot better bonus through out their career than enlisted, their pay is higher too.

If you really want to enlist try Mass Commications Specialist (MC) since it related directly to your degree. The Engineering rates spend the most time working and have the least free time. Topsiders, combat systems department mostly, usually earn the most in bonuses.

Answer 4

Just join as an officer, if you're so concerned about "climbing the ranks" then join as an E-3 (with college credits) and then work your way up to Chief (E-7 to E-9)

From chief you can take the Warrant Officer class/training, and be a WO1. WO's are the most respected officers in the Navy, because they started at the bottom and then worked their way up to officer, unlike the Ensigns fresh out of the academy.

As I said, your best bet is to just join as an officer. It is true that enlisted members have almost an exclusive opportunity to be officers in their field... but why bother if you can start at the top anyway?

You have the degree, use it.

Answer 5

You dont salute her...or at least I dont salute my little brother. Rolls eyes...It's not fraternization as they where married Prior to all this. Nor does one of them have to get out of the military... more then likely they wont be stationed at the same base hopefully they will be "near" each other...and the only time they will both be in unforim together is in the morning on the way out the door..Oh ya really need to salute while your brushing your teeth. I also dont see it was a "macho sexist" thing... I remember changing my kid brothers diapers, have 8 years on him think I really care he is an O-4. Nope. He was my little baby brother first...and will aways be. Same as this guys wife was his GF, lover and wife long before she was an officer. Plus really now the gap between officers and enlist isnt that big anymore. Many enlist have just as much education as officers do..it's not like the old days where enlisted couldnt even read.

Answer 6

work your way up? dude, you will have no control over the advancement rate of what ever rate you pick. you could get stuck at E5 for 10 years all you know.

you having a degree will not get you advanced no quicker then anyone else, you will take the same rate test as everyone.

what an officer does and an enlisted does are 2 different things.

there is no career path, or rate that makes it easier to become an officer.

you will have your pick out of what they will offer you, no more, no less.

the Navy is trying to lose people in most fields right now, you will probably get shoved into some lame nuke machinist mate job or something thinking it is all cool.

the bonuses are in the EOD and SEAL fields right now.

just save your self time and save your self from looking like an idiot and go in as an officer.

Answer 7

With your ASVAB you should be open to most rates in the Navy. If you enlist and decide you want to go officer, they'll look at your performance while you're enlisted, and you'll need your commanding officer's recommendation to be sent to OCS. How long do you plan on being enlisted before trying to become an officer?

Answer 8

For you, the quickest way to become an officer is to go to OCS.

If you didn't have a bachellor's, the quickest way would be nuclear technician, I think.

Answer 9

OCS. Directly.

Answer 10

Nuke, or weather specialist.