Rattled and shaken after seeing open carry in a grocery store

[haele]

314. Come now, I'd have to look back at my DD214 to remember my two primary NEC's (Navy version of MOS).

Not to mention the two secondary ones I picked up over the 20 years I was enlisted. Even when I was active, I'd probably have to look at my record depending on what I was doing at the time.
There were approximately 30 different codes in my rate (technical), and since cynatnite has mentioned being a medic, there's at least triple that number that s/he could possibly have qualified for at any particular time, depending on where and with what agency s/he had orders with.

I retired in 1998 and have gone on with my life. If you asked me the same question, I'd tell you what I was doing instead of an NEC, because frankly, I can't remember to that granularity.

It's rather like asking what the combination for the lock I used for any barracks or shipboard personal lockers after boot camp. I used that lock for 10 years. I think it was a 2" MasterLock that went to 50, and that's only because I'm mentally picturing it. I could probably remember, but it would take more time and effort to try to go through the physical memory steps to tell you the combination, than it would just to say I used the same lock for 10 years, before I lost it when moving. Unless you made me a defendant at the court of public opinion, why make the effort?

Haele