STA-21 Program for Officer Commission in the Navy

There are many reasons that have driven me to choose the option of wanting to become an officer a nurse, reasons that have caused conflict between my mind and heart. If I use just my sound mind I'd say irrefutably that what is better would be the increase in salary and the accountability or contentment of performing the work task and accomplishing the missions but, in reality I would be lying to both you and myself, because there are just barely half the reason as to why I want to transition from being a sailor to an officer.

The main important reason for me wanting to become a nurse officer is because I see it as a chance to do more than what I have done and have more effect on Navy medical policies. I want to take my learned skills and experience to the next level. I know it will not be easier, it will be harder but I believe that from the challenge we get evolution arising to better solutions. As an E-4 I do not have much say and if whenever I have a suggestion that might assist my unit, I have to wait till I get my opportunity to be able to air it out, which at times might be discarded. Basically, I just follow the order which isn't bad, because for a team to function as one unit, the order must be created; rules and regulations must be set to be followed. But as an officer, I can make sure that my junior sailors are getting the fair treatment they deserve. I am not saying that I shall adjustment the way the medical Navy unit does things; but from being a junior enlisted myself, I know some minor changes are wanted. I will be responsible for even more people and equipment, and I will have to tutor and lead other leaders who are themselves in charge of people. It's a challenge, and it's an evolution. It's a push from the comfort zone that makes you perform to an even higher level.

If I'm given the opportunity to help serve as an officer there are lots of factors that I shall bring in to helping in improving the Navy. Among those factors is; emphasizing on solidarity, since the Navy bases their strength on working as a single smooth oiled unit, it's best that if each individual is heard of no matter the ranking. At times great solution comes from the least individual. If everyone is heard and given equal rights but under the Navy rules when it comes to finding out the solution of problems facing them, they shall feel more united not just as a unit but as a family and in family is comes super coordination and strength enabling the Navy to diffuse any critical problem that might fall on them or the nation.

I'm applying for the officer position because of such reasons; I feel with the higher rating I shall be able to deliver more to the Navy unit by improving the standards or condition that we are in currently. it will be a step up in my career and my environment simply because I have gained a lot of experience that has set me aside from my fellow colleagues and from this I feel I have developed the psychology to challenge myself as it through this I am able to get the best out of myself enabling me to be able to help and serve others better on a larger scale as compared to know. Applying for the officer position shall enable me to also have a say when it comes to making a critical decision which requires both skills and experience.

Through the hardships that I was faced with on being an E-4 rating, there were some factors that purely shaped my character and helped me in wanting to apply in the nurse officer; long hours was one of them. Being an E-4 meant that, that I had to work for longer hours depending on the order given by the higher ranked officer. Many times I worked over eight hours per day mostly through standing the whole day. This did enable me to be able to endure long working hours as the nurse officer through shaping my character into whom I am now. Being an E-4 meant that we mostly had to cooperate with both my sinuous and my colleagues of the same rating, this greatly contributed to helping me embrace teamwork which is very critical to the hospitals in order to save lives.

There are a lot of anomalies that one faces when being an E-4 rating, an example is an overtime working this is greatly affecting people as they find that they spend most of their time just working, therefore the end up having zero social life or at times lots of fatigue. Another anomaly that is poor college this is simply because of the stretched out resource in the collages. I was able to ever come to this anomalies simply because I had to sacrifice for the greater good when it came to poor collages, I funded myself into buying some of the reading materials which the college didn't have.

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