vincent p. norris wrote:

Also, you'll have to talk to an officer to get the full story, but I do
believe USMC officers have 2 jobs at all times.

..... Few, if any, pilots in the USMC have flying as their sole duty

When I got my wings in 1951 and joined a squadron at Cherry Point, I
was promptly made the squadron's Navigation Officer and Intelligence
Officer.

It prolly won't ever, realistically, happen, but I'd welcome the
chance to go back with you, fifty-whatever years after your arrival at
NKT, and my twenty- ... ... ... eight years after arrival, and compare
notes on what it was then, then^2, and now, twenty-plus years after I
left there.

OJ III
[Who suggests that you were lucky that 1951 was *long* before Marine,
or any other service's, squadrons needed a Drug and Alcohol Abuse O,
or SNCO.]
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