Ok, as you can tell, I'm a Sailor in the US Navy. I've been a Sailor for six years. I've been a Petty Officer for about half of that time. I've made PO2 (that's Petty Officer Second Class or E-5) twice. Not an easy task in the new Navy. It's hard to move from E-5 to E-3 and stay in the service these days. It's even harder to become a Second Class again, it's even harder in my rating (MOS, job group, whatever). This is my blog. It's about life in the Navy on a small island in the I...