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Infantryman (USA) vs Yeoman (USN)
Army: "I woke up at 0430 for PT in a muddy field." Navy: "I woke up in a coffin-sized rack on a ship that smells like JP-5 and regret." Neither won.
A typical day for a 11B: your 'leadership development' is standing in formation waiting for someone to get yelled at for something you also did but didn't get caught doing. A typical day for a YN: bUPERSNOTES and MILPERSMAN are your legal references. It gets better. The 11B: your 'leadership development' is standing in formation waiting for someone to get yelled at for something you also did but didn't get caught doing. The YN: the YN community works in every command type — ships, shore installations, headquarters staffs, flag offices — and the quality of the billet depends enormously on the command and the CO. Same paycheck. Same rank structure. Different universes.
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