US Navy Reviews

Pros

Travel, Vacation, Perks, Discipline, Prestige

Cons

Promotions, Pay, Locations, Leaders, Lack of Discpline

Pros

Travel, education, training, friendships, experience

Cons

long hours, deployments, family stress

Pros

People, Places, and Excitement. Great place for a 4 or 30 year career

Cons

Long hours, time away from family.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the benefits (pay and health care) for our troops

Pros

Good Benefits, above avg pay, see the world, live in different places.

Cons

Time to promotion is slow and based on seniority/time-in vs performance/initiative/responsibility/etc. Detailing process is very flawed and is more smoke-and-mirrors than anything. Why not post all the open jobs and let us choose what we feel is best for us ... this is the 21st Century, surely we can make that happen in today's technological world!

Advice to Senior Management

Enough with the uniforms already. Need more open detailing process on the officer side.

Pros

Job security is the reason that I came into the Navy.

Cons

You are away from alot.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you are doing.

Pros

A great way to learn in a structured environment. Use those skills to make a difference in the world, and have the Navy pay for your schooling. It doesn't get much better than that.

Cons

Inevitably you will have to travel with the Navy. If you're not one for missing time at home, then you might not want this. Make the best of it though, it's worth your effort. I have less than 0 negative things to say about my Navy time.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to grow with the times. Embrace change but don't make change a matter of policy. Meaning, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Some changes were good while I was in, but some seemed to be happening just "because." Overall though, the Navy has the right attitude and commitment to excellence that make great leaders.

Pros

Given responsibility and authority at a very young age. Great leadership opportunities. Camaraderie and support of co-workers. High tech environment.

Cons

You have to move around a lot. Some people move about beyond the peter principle. The defense budget is getting tight, which is making it more difficult to complete the missions assigned.

Advice to Senior Management

We need to do a better job of weeking out the people who are bringing down the organization. Promote based on proven performance, and not politics.

Pros

Good benefits,learn people skills, Visiting others

Cons

too much micromanagement and involvement in others personal problems

Advice to Senior Management

Try to balance between the perosnnel and professional life of subordinates

Pros

40 hour work week, small community. Great opportunity to travel around the nation or to other world-wide locations. Great retirement package after twenty years equivalent to over $1,000,000 in savings and living off the interest. Very cheap lifetime retirement health-care for the entire family (for less than $300 a YEAR!!!). Free health and dental and family counseling care while on active duty.

Cons

Deployments overseas (if not desired, though getting paid to live in Europe or Japan is an incredible experience).

Advice to Senior Management

Less bureaucracy, more empowerment of officers to change pubs and instructions to conform with modern medical science and clinical decision making.

Pros

Upward mobility is very possible

Cons

Out of country travel if you want to stay close to family. Great for those who don't have an immediate family.

Advice to Senior Management

None