{"id":182,"date":"2019-11-05T12:19:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cfcc.edu\/storyforce\/?p=182"},"modified":"2022-12-20T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:05:09","slug":"joining-the-navy-interview-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfcc.edu\/storyforce\/joining-the-navy-interview-excerpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Joining The Navy: Interview Excerpt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Greg Arey, United States Navy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"firstcharacter\">T<\/span>he detailers wanted me to be a cryptology tech. They said, \u201cYou have to go take this Morse Code test.\u201d So they took me to the basement under the building. And they said, \u201cYou go down here, and you take this test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, they gave me the test, and I started listening to Morse Code\u2014and I hated it so much that I intentionally failed the test. I had never done that in my life. I actually failed it on purpose.<br \/>\nSo, a cryptology tech\u2014I found out on my way down to take the test\u2014is a person who listens to secret information all day and tries to decipher information. And they basically put you in a vault and isolate you. And I found out going down there . . . those are the guys on the ship who know all the secrets, and the Marines stand outside the door, and if a ship goes down they shoot you.<br \/>\nAnd I was like, \u201cI don\u2019t think I want to do this job.\u201d And they were giving me all these horror stories on the way down. And that\u2019s one of the reasons I intentionally failed the test: I didn\u2019t want to be one of the first ones shot on the ship if it was going down.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cfcc.edu\/storyforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/11\/Greg-Arey.jpeg\" alt=\"Greg Arey\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-185\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Arey, United States Navy The detailers wanted me to be a cryptology tech. They said, \u201cYou have to go take this Morse Code test.\u201d So they took me to the basement under the building. 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