Well, my husband's a cryptologic LINGUIST in the Marines, not sure how much different that is - I think it's basically the same job+ a language - and his answer to your last question is "NOOOO."
He's thinking, but, just watching as his wife - he's a cryptologic LINGUIST - and the stress of being expected to keep up on his language as well as having to keep up on being MILITARY - both of which are jobs unto themselves - wear on him. We're really not sure how cryptologic linguist in the Marine Corps differs from cryptologic technician in the Navy (we know how it differs from Cryp Tech in the Marine Corps), so we might be talking about two very different things
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CTRs have never had a lot of problems getting promoted because there are so few. The jobs are also quite different in the fact that CTRs generally don't have languages and the chance this person is going to be doing something different than what they were trained to do is higher than for a linguist.
I have done the Army equivalent of that job (CTR) and I liked it. It will really depend on where you get stationed if you're going to actually do what they trained you to do, but that may be more of an Army thing. You will train in a joint service training environment in Florida. Whether you really like this job or not is going to depend on where you get stationed, where they put you, and your attitude. I actually liked it, once I got the hang of it. However, I ended up doing a tad bit of a different job that had more analysis and I worked with some CTRs (Navy folks), as well. Most of them seemed happy enough, but we really didn't sit around talking about the job specifically, so I can't tell you how they felt about it.
A former Navy Nuke here. I'm not going to lie- it's a lot of work, but in my opinion you'll be working with the best people in the Navy, bar none. The training is intense, but depending on where you're willing to live after you get out, there are very well paying jobs out there available, and the rapid advancement, extra pay, and bonuses are very generous. I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat, and there are times I still wish I'd stayed in.
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He does say he has no idea how it is in the Navy.
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