Well, the Navy is changing its commissioing process. Currently, all officers are, with few exceptions, commissioned as Ensign, United States Navy Reserve. Starting 1 May, they'll all get USN instead. My question is how does this effect the Officer Designatior (Code for what an officer does)?
For example, an officer who is qualifed for all command ashore is 170x. If he's currently USN, he's 1702, if he's reservist, he's 1705 (If I recall this correctly, it's been a while), if he was assigned to admister the Reseves, he was a 1707. Well, the reserve admin guys are already USN, so it's irrelevant.
Posted by thomp356 at March 19, 2005 8:15 PM | TrackBack