US Navy Reviews

Pros

Important mission of national security

Cons

Location, location, location, location, location

Pros

Great training, excellent opportunities, good people, world travel, and good benefits. Discipline and structure are top notch. The many leaders are the BEST Leaders.Good fitness facilities at shore commands.

Cons

Lack of a true schedule, missed family events and activities, long hours (if we got paid by the actual hours worked, we'd be rich, disconnected funds for maintenance and upkeep, sometimes a lack of down time to recover and de-stress. Flawed performance evaluation system and flawed fitness program. Lack of time and or fitness equipment on deployed smaller ships which is most of the fleet.

Advice to Senior Management

Make "Culture of Fitness" a true program on all ships and at all commands instead of just a buzz word. Decision makers should get out there and see what is really going on with the program. It is not a 365 program in many places, maybe 14 to 28 days of commitment throughout the year. Commands that do want to support it sometimes cannot due to lack of space, funding, training, and ever changing or unknown schedules. Maybe consider equipment and locations in ship design instead of an afterthought. Create a rate of certified professionals to run the program. Fix the evaluation system so it truly reflects an individual’s job performance and characteristics. No one flaw should drop other performance trait areas. Give CO's more control over their ships evals. We lost many great Sailors due to flaws in the systems that were outside the CO's control.
Get rid of PTS, ERB, and CRB. Build and actually SUPPORT a true Culture of Fitness. Take care of your Sailors. They do amazing things all the time.

Pros

Job security, training, and benefits are good.

Cons

Low pay, not enough leave days.

Advice to Senior Management

Higher pay please.

Pros

Get to see the world

Cons

A lot of time away from the family.

Pros

Decent salary
Very good job security
Good benefits

Cons

Upward mobility based more on time in position and less on ability
Can be very monotonous

Pros

No surprises. You work hard and do a good job, you'll get advanced. Stop working hard or stop playing by the rules and you become expendable.

Cons

Not as secure as it once was, but if you follow the advice above then you will be fine.

Advice to Senior Management

There is often a disconnect between executive-level management and mid-level management. For most commands, this means that there can be CO/XO expectations that are not supported at the divisional level, and this hurts everyone. Everyone needs to continue to align to goals for everyone to be successful.

Pros

My lasik eye correction surgery was free and it was in germany
I didn't pay a dime when my daughter was born
Free flights around the world

Cons

The risk of being deployed at any time

Advice to Senior Management

It's a good company it was just time for me to move on.

Pros

Pay was good, recruiter worked with me to get the job I wanted, Food was good, barracks were clean, and everything was very simple

Cons

It's the Military. If you can't stand getting yelled at, being told you're wrong, having to get up really early, Cleaning everything meticulously, and following every order to a T, then don't join.

Advice to Senior Management

Haha, "Advice to Management". In the Navy, any Chief is king. Doesn't matter if you're right and you can prove it, if chief says you're wrong, then you're wrong.

Pros

camaraderie, service to country, part of a team

Cons

less than stellar wages for the work we do

Advice to Senior Management

get away from the corporate culture and stay focused on the business at hand... being the business end of US policy.

Pros

Great opportunities, great benefits, good salary.

Cons

Long hours, Away from family for long period of time.

Advice to Senior Management

This is a great opportunity for everyone.