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On 12/3/13, 9:02 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:14:05 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

There were many Navy LDOs in the electronics fields mainly because the
enlisted ET schools that they graduated from were so good. For purposes
of the Navy they made better division officers than a university grad
with a electronics related degree who then joined and received a
commission in the Navy.


More malleable, less likely to question authority, know how to spitshine
shoes and march in them.

Again your overpriced education has failed you. They don't have a lot
of that spit shine crap in a Navy electronics school, certainly
nothing like an academy or even a gung ho ROTC unit.

They are giving you knowledge at a much faster tempo that you got in
college and there were consequences for failure.
They don't waste a lot of time with the Gomer Pyle stuff


I was using spitshine as a metaphor. You know, one of those concepts you
never got to study in your military training.

I suppose the sort of rote memorization and spitback of instructional
materials is what the military wants and prefers, because independent,
creative thought is not really an attribute it wants in its soldiers,
sailors, et cetera.

Some of the "101" courses I took in college were like that, especially
the math and science classes. Here's the stuff, memorize it, spit it
back, and so forth. I recall one upper level English course that was
like that, "Shakespeare Rapid Reading," in which we had to read and then
write an essay on each of Willie's plays, and all in one semester. It
was an awful course, but a requirement. Fortunately, most of "us'n"
English majors had read the plays long before we got to that course.

Most of the upper level courses I got to take - the "300" and "400"
classes were more contemplative and thought-provoking. I had friends who
were studying to become electrical engineers and architects and
suchlike, and you hardly saw them from one semester to another, the
grind level was so severe for them.

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