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<blockquote data-quote="Jebadias" data-source="post: 16078608" data-attributes="member: 87819"><p>Ok I'll bite.</p><p></p><p>I was in what they called the Seabee Vet program, a sorry little program which took Fleet Navy and other service vets and converted them into Seabee ratings. The final part of the program was to pass the advancement exam for the rate you were changing to. In my case I was an AO3 cross rating to EO3, so I needed to get a passing grade on the EO3 exam.</p><p></p><p>After sitting down for the exam my buddy (same program) asked me what exam I had. I looked and saw I had the EO2 exam. He did too. We talked about it for a bit. What should we do? If we say something we will have to come back for the late exam in a few weeks. The program was only concerned with the test to see if we know enough to be 3rd class Equipment Operators. Our abilities as 3rd Class Petty Officers was not in question as we had both passed 3rd class tests in our previous rates. I asked him if he could pass a 2nd class exam (we only needed to pass it, not get a score high enough to be selected). He said, "Hell yeah I can pass it!" I said, "Screw it, lets take it, after all, if we can pass a 2nd class test we defiantly could pass a 3rd."</p><p></p><p>A couple months later we both got called into the Company Chief's office. He had some colorful things to say, I won't repeat them here but I am sure you can imagine how it went. We were confused. We both had forgot about the exam by then. "We have a problem, you two took the 2nd class exam." "What? We didn't know that." we replied. More interesting language followed. "You two aren't stupid enough to not notice what exam you had!" he screamed. "Fine Chief, what's the problem? We needed to pass an EO exam to prove we knew what we were doing. If we can pass an EO2 exam then we know we can pass a 3rd class one." Apparently the support activity which administered the exam was a bit embarrassed by the mistake, and was insisting the exam was invalid. They wanted us to retake the 3rd class exam in the fall. "The problem," he said, "is that you two both passed the exam with a high enough final multiple to be advanced and you both have enough time in rate." I asked him what was going to happen... he wasn't sure yet.</p><p></p><p>The next month we were both back in his office. Apparently my battalion agreed with me, that if we could pass a 2nd class exam then we could defiantly pass a 3rd class one. They wanted us to graduate and move on. The support activity dug in their heels and insisted we retake the proper exam the next cycle. They decided to toss the problem up to brigade. Brigade had developed the program so both sides had to defer to their decision. They thought the whole thing was a joke, graduated us, then advanced us both to 2nd class. That ended up setting a precedent. A couple other people ended up intentionally taking the 2nd class exam by "mistake" over the next couple years until they finally got rid of the program.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jebadias, post: 16078608, member: 87819"] Ok I'll bite. I was in what they called the Seabee Vet program, a sorry little program which took Fleet Navy and other service vets and converted them into Seabee ratings. The final part of the program was to pass the advancement exam for the rate you were changing to. In my case I was an AO3 cross rating to EO3, so I needed to get a passing grade on the EO3 exam. After sitting down for the exam my buddy (same program) asked me what exam I had. I looked and saw I had the EO2 exam. He did too. We talked about it for a bit. What should we do? If we say something we will have to come back for the late exam in a few weeks. The program was only concerned with the test to see if we know enough to be 3rd class Equipment Operators. Our abilities as 3rd Class Petty Officers was not in question as we had both passed 3rd class tests in our previous rates. I asked him if he could pass a 2nd class exam (we only needed to pass it, not get a score high enough to be selected). He said, "Hell yeah I can pass it!" I said, "Screw it, lets take it, after all, if we can pass a 2nd class test we defiantly could pass a 3rd." A couple months later we both got called into the Company Chief's office. He had some colorful things to say, I won't repeat them here but I am sure you can imagine how it went. We were confused. We both had forgot about the exam by then. "We have a problem, you two took the 2nd class exam." "What? We didn't know that." we replied. More interesting language followed. "You two aren't stupid enough to not notice what exam you had!" he screamed. "Fine Chief, what's the problem? We needed to pass an EO exam to prove we knew what we were doing. If we can pass an EO2 exam then we know we can pass a 3rd class one." Apparently the support activity which administered the exam was a bit embarrassed by the mistake, and was insisting the exam was invalid. They wanted us to retake the 3rd class exam in the fall. "The problem," he said, "is that you two both passed the exam with a high enough final multiple to be advanced and you both have enough time in rate." I asked him what was going to happen... he wasn't sure yet. The next month we were both back in his office. Apparently my battalion agreed with me, that if we could pass a 2nd class exam then we could defiantly pass a 3rd class one. They wanted us to graduate and move on. The support activity dug in their heels and insisted we retake the proper exam the next cycle. They decided to toss the problem up to brigade. Brigade had developed the program so both sides had to defer to their decision. They thought the whole thing was a joke, graduated us, then advanced us both to 2nd class. That ended up setting a precedent. A couple other people ended up intentionally taking the 2nd class exam by "mistake" over the next couple years until they finally got rid of the program. [/QUOTE]
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