Word: bosun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Liberty. There was Eddie, the bosun's mate from Brooklyn, talking with a reporter before he even got well into his second sixpack. "You were so wound up, you'd be screaming at your buddy over nothing," Eddie was saying. "Your buddy! All you could think about was getting off that ship." Eddie wasn't any more conspicuous than anybody else on the streets of Key West. They made everybody stay in full uniform. And out on the Margaritaville scene, the military was the only presence with the posture of a T square. Standing there on Duval...
...Navy's problem may be the most severe of all: it is short 21,000 experienced petty officers. In particular, the Navy needs good men for key supervisory jobs, such as boiler technician, machinist's mate and aviation bosun's mate. Notes a senior Navy official: "We're hurting for the kind of people we need most: aviators and nuclear-trained officers. They're bright and have had rigorous training. The civilian nuclear industry just gobbles them up, along with other engineering types, as fast as we can manufacture them." Example: last year the Navy had 138 nuclear-qualified petty...