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Huinesoron
on 2016-01-15 09:31:00 UTC
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You somehow resisted the urge to make a 'July has class now!' joke.
I, on the other hand, did not.
(Hey, if Munchkin can do it, so can I!)
hS
That is actually a pretty good away of putting it. by
JulyFlame
on 2016-01-15 07:29:00 UTC
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You can either do a rating straight away (like OS) or end up undesignated as a seaman, airman, or fireman, which are more generalized, and have different routes.
Seamen can eventually strike any rating available in the navy- if it's something that is air or engineering related, they tend to have to wait for a school outside of a couple, because it's more specialized.
Airmen can eventually pick any aviation based rating, and don't have to go to school for those, usually, since they're learning it while onboard.
firemen can eventually pick any engineering based rating, and again, usually don't have to go to school for those, because they're learning it onboard as well.
Once you get a rating you can pick up petty officer, and thus more responsibilities, and can specialize further and further in your field. All OSes don't have the same specialities, and neither do BMs, and so on and so forth.
So yeah, comparing it to picking a class in an RPG works out pretty well.
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Larfen J. Stocke, esq
on 2016-01-15 03:36:00 UTC
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That is easily the best explanation anyone could have given.
