I didn't know there was a CWO5 ranking in any of the branches of the services
Did you ever spend any time in the Stumps?
I went to high school there, met a lot of good people and Marines there
30 years is a long time in any job, I worked for 33 years for the phone company in SO CA Mojave desert, 29 Palms for 6 years and the rest in the Victor Valley working for another smaller independent telephone company that GTE bought in 1991
GTE got bought several years later by Atlantic Bell which is now known as Verizon
I did spend 21 months active duty in the U.S Army from December 1966 to September 1968, nine months in Germany and the rest in the states.
working in and around 29 palms before getting drafted and then working 21 years around George AFB show me that there is a world of differences between the different branches of the U.S. armed services