Sounds like we had a lot in common. I was an enlisted minesweeper who became an oceanography/meteorology officer. Promotion rates to O-4 (LCDR) were 80% and roughly a 70% selection rate for O-5 (CMDR) when I was still there as well. The oceanography side stuff is waaayyyyy cooler than the meteorology stuff tbh. Modern mine warfare oceanography units employ UUVs (underwater drones) to go look and it's mostly automated data collection and then processing the sonar imagery.
Sounds like we had a lot in common. I was an enlisted minesweeper who became an oceanography/meteorology officer. Promotion rates to O-4 (LCDR) were 80% and roughly a 70% selection rate for O-5 (CMDR) when I was still there as well. The oceanography side stuff is waaayyyyy cooler than the meteorology stuff tbh. Modern mine warfare oceanography units employ UUVs (underwater drones) to go look and it's mostly automated data collection and then processing the sonar imagery.