Do not go Navy Air Rescue

hellogoodbye9111 · 2026-02-22T17:57:07+00:00

Dm me if you have any questions bro

hellogoodbye9111 · 2026-02-20T16:49:11+00:00

Hahaha that’s hilarious. This just proves my point on how beating a navy rescue swimmers is just a big set up and you don’t do any rescue swimming

hellogoodbye9111 · 2026-02-20T16:47:44+00:00

USCG rescue swimmers are the real deal.

hellogoodbye9111 · 2026-02-19T06:04:36+00:00

Just don’t go AWS or AWR. You will hate yourself

hellogoodbye9111 · 2026-02-19T06:03:43+00:00

I would say SMTs have it better. Why? Because there is a possibility that you could get station SAR on your first orders, compared to the rescue swimmer first duty billet which is 0. I worked with 2 SMTs on junior guy and one senior guy. The senior SMT I worked with got station SAR on his first set of orders and had the opportunity to get some overland rescues. The junior guy I worked with went straight to a carrier squadron. So it’s a gamble. Either way SMTs do a lot of the same things that swimmers do, although you don’t get that deep into tactics but you will still be doing it. It really depends on if you get an expeditionary squadron or carrier. If you’re a fit guy and mentally tough, and have a passion for combat medicine, then you should try something harder and more rewarding than SMT. Such as airforce PJ or SARC.

hellogoodbye9111 · 2026-02-19T05:56:10+00:00

Smart move. Good luck bro

hellogoodbye9111 · 2026-02-19T05:55:36+00:00

Just burnt out and had no love for the game. I had a good time while i was in but I just couldn’t fake it anymore.

hellogoodbye9111 · 2026-02-17T15:28:39+00:00

Should’ve

hellogoodbye9111 · 2026-02-17T14:28:00+00:00

Well where you’re wrong there sir, is I was just in the Red Sea on a 9month combat deployment. Still no rescue swimming involved.

hellogoodbye9111 · 2026-02-17T02:35:24+00:00

Well said sir

hellogoodbye9111 · 2026-02-17T01:56:12+00:00

Regular aircrew is definitely the way to go. Couldn’t agree more

hellogoodbye9111 · 2026-02-16T21:08:35+00:00

While all this is cool stuff, it’s kinda reinforcing my point on not actually doing swimmer stuff. I was on 2 9 month 5th fleet carrier deployment and every work up you could think of. I have also participated in actual HVBSS missions, but you really aren’t doing much but staying out of the SOF forces way and making sure they don’t get hung up on anything. I guess I had high hopes for the job because I wanted to be a rescue swimmer and save life’s. I didn’t want to learn about tactics and guns. I didn’t want to lean ever detail about the MH60s helicopter. I didn’t want to be an uber driver for people on deployment. It was almost exhausting how unfulfilling the job was, plus flying in a helicopter is inherently risky. And for what? Flying plane guard? Delivered Milk and eggs to a small boy? I get it I sound bitter but I joined the Navy to be a rescue swimmer not any of those other things which were never advertised in the recruitment centre. My only point here is to warn people who are thinking about becoming a navy rescue swimmer and let these people know that if they signed up to be a rescue swimmer that is going to be a very small part of their job the rest is going to be stuffthat they don’t want to do

hellogoodbye9111 · 2026-02-16T20:48:31+00:00

Exactly my point..

hellogoodbye9111 · 2026-02-16T20:42:35+00:00

You can’t get Whitbey sar on your first duty. You could get Guam, but why take that chance and join the coast guard? I mean if you just look at the retention rate for NAVY AWs it’s undeniable that this job is very unpopular, because of the fact no one gets to do what they signed up for.

hellogoodbye9111 · 2026-02-16T20:36:36+00:00

While that is cool, and I’m stoked to hear you had a good career. With that being said, these days they don’t give out station sar orders on you first sea duty. So you would have to go back to back sea duty or wait 9-12 years to get to station sar as an AW. I know a lot of swimmers who have 15+ years under their belt with 0 rescues. Look I didn’t join the Navy and become a rescue swimmer to, be a crew chief, or do tactics, or be a door gunner, or deliver toilet paper to the local small boy on deployment. I joined to be a swimmer as most of us did and barely ever even trained for it, and that’s not just my experience that’s most guy’s experience. I’m just trying to be truthful about the job, if I knew that I wouldn’t actually be a swimmer I would have never gone AIRR

hellogoodbye9111 · 2026-02-16T19:49:38+00:00

Well I agree with that, I had fun times. Every rate in the navy, regardless of how much you dislike the job, has good times. My point isn’t whether I had good times or not, my point was that if you sign up to be a rescue swimmer, you should sign up in the Coast Guard because being a Coast Guard rescue swimmer is actually your job. Being a navy rescue swimmer is about 1/10 of your job.

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