Then I'd say you're misunderstanding the Navy recruiter and he probably lost interest when you started telling him you wanted to have "fun." It takes a helluva lot of work to run a ship, which if you didn't happen to notice is the Navy's full-time mission (you know, the ocean).

[b]Major-Murphy[/b] is right about firefighting in a shore duty capacity being boring. It's that way for a reason. Shore duty is for career oriented sailors. Every once in awhile there're some little bonehead sailors who fall through the cracks (mostly female) and wind up with shore duty on their first hitch and I'm sure that they learn the finer points of making coffee and taking out the trash along with a myriad of other custodial duties. Shore duty can be divided up into two categories: arduous and non arduous. Arduous being recruiting, pushing boots, admiral's staff, etc. The kind of duty that takes 110% of your time. It's meant to groom you for the chief's board or CWO/LDO selection. Non-arduous is physical security (cop), passing out basketballs, working with PWC (maybe even in the base fire department), SIMA, etc. Pud stuff. You're expected to make use of your free time and attend college, get involved in the community, etc., in order to also groom you for making rate.

A recruiter can only truthfully give you a general idea of what's available to you. To really know, you have to take the ASVAB and visit with a counselor at MEPS. The counselor will ask you about your interests, how soon you'd like to enter active duty, etc. Then he'll put all of that data into the computer and come up with a list of ratings available to you based on that information.

You can damn well bet that say a GMGSA coming from "A" school is going to be sent to duty aboard a ship (where they have a need for them) before they're going to send him to some podunk shore duty billet.

Jim_Dandy I said nothing about having fun to him at all. I also had my MAVES taken by this time. All I told him is what I wanted to do and he told me all he can do is place me in the field that it was in nothing more nothing less and if the field was open they would place me where they needed me.

Anyway I'm not going to the Navy no way no how. If I want to spend time at sea I'll take the Coast guard.  

Coasties don't go to sea and they don't make rate fast enough. The recruiter can only provide you with generalizations.