Pro's of Enlisted over Commissioned?

[MA2]

If you have a 4 year degree and still come in as enlisted, you pretty much deserve to be enlisted, because you're probably pretty dense in all honesty.

Although there are a few exceptions to that, like getting the military to pay back your student loans and then applying to OCS while active duty, it still holds true 99% of the time.

Officers- better pay, more respect, less BS, you don't get crap duties...

Junior officers on a ship share a room (usually) with one other guy and 4 officers total share a bathroom... sort of like a upper scale college dorm. Junior enlisted get jammed in like sardines and everyone shares a few bathrooms.

The officers get REAL ice cream and other treats served to them and enlisted get some goop that would make Oliver Twist cringe.


Downrange officers get better living arrangements and food too... not sharing a freakin shipping container with 5 other guys.

You might say "I want to be prior enlisted so the guys will respect me more when I'm an officer later" but honestly no one really cares. I've worked for officers that were prior E-7s that had their heads up their butts and were horrible leaders and worked with O-1s right out of OCS that were great.

The uniform doesn't make the man, the man makes the uniform.

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US Navy Military Police E-5