after pearl harbor attack
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To "Ship Over" is to extend one's contract as an Enlisted service-member in the United States Navy.
over 16 million
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There were over a million US Sailors in WW2.
332,000 The number of active duty enlisted individuals is 317,054. The number of reserve personnel at this time is 109,120. Combining both active and reservists that gives a total of 426174 people enlisted in the navy.
At the height of the war the Japanese had an Army over six million strong. I have heard there was 4 million in their Navy. Most sources give the counts of the ships and types of ships in their Imperial fleet rather than mention how many Sailors and Aviators they had.
In the Navy only baptised sailors were able to have a pierced ear. Only after having sailed the seven seas and having crossed the Cape was a sailor considered,"Baptised". The piercing was done as a sign to Neptune and a request that should this sailor ever be in danger at sea, Neptune was asked to protect him and watch over him. This was told to me by an active Navy Admiral and is why during the second world war, in the Canadian & Royal Navy, these were the only branches of military service where enlisted personnel were allowed to have ear piercings.
Over 8 million.
That would depend on the service in which they enlisted with Marines heading to San Diego and sailors going to California Seattle or the Great Lakes. The vast expansion of the Armed Forces saw new training facilities opening all over the US.
Over half of the lost men were US Sailors aboard the battleship USS Arizona; they are still within it's hull.
NEC stands for Navy Enlisted Classification; it is the Navy equivalent to the Army and Marine Corps' Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) and the Air Force's Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC). The number assigned specifies the Enlisted member's job specialty; a sailor can have several NEC's given training over time. As an example, I had 4 NEC's as a result of going through advanced Sonar training (analog and digital systems) twice.