multiple service careers

[Straybow]

I knew a guy who had served in the Army, the Army Air Corps, the Navy, and the Marines! Call it a super-trifecta…

By "Army Air Corps" you get an idea how long ago he got his start. I think his stint in the Marines was Korean War, and Navy was afterwards.

 

[jasper]

HMM or no one really want him in their outfits.

 

[aramis]

Funny, I saw Traveller as more akin to the a mixture of the Soviet and Imperial Russian models:

best and brightest boots immediadely become NCO trainees, rest serve a term, and hope, if they stay in, that they eventually make NCO grades. The best and brightest 1st term NCOs' become Praporshiks (roughly, Warrant grades, but functionally SrNCO's and platoon LT's). Officers come from two areas: acadamies and the best NCO's overall...

Then again, let us not forget, Russia had a meritocratic structure of ranks by 1600, jointly structured civil and military, which included patents of nobility to the senior grades....

Sounds dangerously like Traveller.

 

[Straybow]

HMM or no one really want him in their outfits.

No, it's just that signing up again after leaving service there isn't much advantage to sticking with the previous branch. At least for enlisted ranks.