Navy Boatswain’s Mate - BM 

What all did they do I just got home from meps and thinking about boatswain mate job

Simon Schnelle. I would say your kinda dumb .

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Aye aye

True. The "Grunts" of the Navy. Although not always dumb. A lot of people that failed out of their A school go to the Fleet to work in the Deck Department. A lot of advanced ratings required 6 year contracts. A lot of ratings with guaranteed A schools required 5 year contracts. If you "rocked" out of your school, you're still obligated to that term. You can go to the Fleet and try to "strike" for any rating, and learn on-the-job, but many just stay in Deck and become BM's. You do work hard, but it can be exciting. You will be a part of combat ops. Standing bridge watches, lookouts. Helm, lee-helm. Underway replenishments. Boat coxswains. On smaller ships, Deck & Weapons departments are combined. The intelligence is more of an instinctive, physical type. Haze Grey And Underway.

It's hard work, but it's worth being on deck. You get to see what the others don't being stuck inside all day.

How is the job so far? My son is leaving for basic in a month and I was just wondering how you’re liking the job?

No lie

You were smart

Only Sweepers lol

@@gotham006 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hi one question if i want to pilot boats and ships and navigate do watches is os the thing for me or boatswains? For example after i serve i want to be piloting a tugboat or a merchant ship

@@victorjose7798 Quartermaster, plot out shipping lane, ships position, radar navigation and during special sea and anchor detail and fuel replenishment they take over driving the ship their Master helmsman

Cedric The Footballer what do ya do?

Are we going to get any downtime?

@@talonmerrill800 you will get normal working hours

@@gamingelke6968 plus all of your watches so add that on top and lord help you if you go on port and starboard hours like we did

What's the salary, if you don't mind.

ha ha

ratio

Your grandpa was a badass

what do you do now?

@@rsclb white collar duties working with a bunch of silver spoon fed brats that can't even clean up after themselves. Its funny, I get an education via the gibill and I actually prefer the hardwork as a boatswains mate. As you get older things come into perspective.

@@colezilla7481 say youre dumb without saying youre dumb IYOYAS

Same

Just suckers

lmk how it went

They got you.

@@danjoy7385 😂😂😂

U need to see head doctor

HOOYAH ⚓️⚓️

you got swindled,

Get another rate bm is a jokes

What rank are you currently and how are the hours for this job? Lastly do you get weekends off during shore duty?

@@robbiewho4745 shoot my rank right now is civilian. Got out after 4. But generally yeah weekends were off. Unless you had duty or stuff had to get done. Spent plenty of Saturdays preparing for insurv and other things though.

If you like grunt work and painting ships then this rate is for you

I was an Aviation Boatswains Mate Equipment. Let me tell you having to sand and grind every piece of every sponsons and the side of the ship with a grinder and breathing in lead paint. Also Carry heavy tools and supplies all over and work from scaffolding. It's a great start if you want to leave and become a merchant marine which pays more than the Navy. All you need is to get TWIC card. I have severe degeneration of the spine and knees. Everyone I know from my rate has this. Some have canes or take nerve pain meds. This kind of work is high wear and tear. Also on Small boys these guys go overboard all the time.

@Rich 91 no that's why majority of them didnt make it through prebuds

If you went to buds and get dropped to the deck department, you never qualified for prebuds in the first place🤣🤣🤣

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@@americasnavywrong flag lol

Do Boatswain mates operate fork lifts?

waterhead001 no

waterhead001 BMs can operate fork lifts if their on shore rotation

@@waterhead001 there's a forklift on my ship, and the BMs here drive it

@@waterhead001 on the amphibs yes. I was on a San Antonio class LPD and we did a lot of that stuff

Painting, sanding freaking metal, running rust, sweeping , mopping, going around in endless circles, standing a gazillion watches, beautifying a war ship, figure the odds. If you make the mistake and take this rate, strike out of it fast. Don't allow your recruiter to suggest this job to you. Search RATES/jobs first, or you will be stuck for the duration.

@@danjoy7385 not true,I was a boatswains mate for 20 years.you are dead wrong about being a slave to the ship...after a few years it gets easier.you get used to it.

Bm work hard I’m a seaman pact and work with them I personally hate the long hours and hard work

@@dehvonrennie2096 its part of life as a Boatswains mate..I have been out since 2007 and I really miss it.long days ,hard work,made many friends...I would not have changed it for the World.

I couldn't agree more

Or GSE

Respect

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Bm2 is that sweet spot in bm life. Unless your a bm2 and lpo on a cruiser or something similar.

It is a right arm rate, but not the only one. Boatswain’s mates, gunner’s mates, carpenter’s mates, masters at arms, ship’s stewards and ship’s cooks wore their rate on the right sleeve.

Why don’t you like it?

phantom1641 BM rate faster

No they don't. This coming from a BM. To many people in the rate. Its possible to make it faster if you get you warfare pins quick. Shoot for a EP Eval.. that the key

My buddy just became BM2 in just 3 years

@@kjr4766 I saw a BMC with one hashmark in a photo recently... though they seemed to fit into a box employers love to check these days based on nothing more than BS race/gender quotas.

@@DoggyBaggg bro I'm sorry but either he didn't put the other marks on or he just got capped to first class and took the test and made it I can't see that happening in 4 years

You will get helmsman qualified to drive the ship if you want to drive the RHIBS (small boats) you will have to go to coxswain school to drive those boats

Several BM's I knew later became merchant seamen and eventually officers aboard merchant vessels, VERY good wages and quality of life in that sector. Aside from that, BM is useless in the civilian world.

@@DoggyBaggg I'm not talking about civilian jobs. I'm talking about a career in the Navy. Getting a cert at 18 and going straight into Merchants is a better way than detouring through the navy as BM.

Who are you kidding its a crappy job, I was BM on an Aegis Cruiser, on That type of ship it sucked, at least under that command. I am certain its much better on a carrier, but when your undermanned it sucks period.

@@danjoy7385 Couldn't have said it better myself.

All those fumes must of gotten to you. What's to like? Chipping paint and huffing rust for 6 hours a day, then hump chains and sweep for 3 hours right before you stand watch for 5. I just described an average day, it gets worse.

@@danjoy7385 Lol. You were just commenting saying if they didn’t make it to BUDS and they came to deck then they never qualified on your high horse but you’re no seal. You’re just as much of a BM but more of a shitbag then I’ve seen from the sounds of it.

@@ajrhy6243 dont you got floor to sand?

And able bodied seamen... all the same work. Just far different wage scales...

I’m goin in as BM but thats not the job I wanted, what should I do?

@@talonmerrill800 study harder to retake the ASVAB when you're in.

What job did you strike I’m undes

No they're not. That has to be one of the most uneducated military statements I've read in my lifetime.

I like that statement. But bms are more like painters with knives.

Introverted Sailor who tf wants to needle gun in 100 deg weather lol

I wouldn’t go for BM. You should try and go for a different rate.

www.navycs.com/asvab-test.html

then you must want a job that sits behind a desk then. This is a rewarding job skill.

Agreed. Hard work. A lot of work. Not for people that want to be behind a desk

@Rich 91 dont want to put the nukes out of a job so they better not swap

worse

gcHK47 QM here, the person who literally drives the ship is the helmsman who is usually a undesignated seaman or a BM. Quartermasters will stand QMOW (Quartermaster of the Watch) and will log all ships movement, manage the ships position and give recommendations to the officer of the deck in any danger to the safety of the ship regarding navigation.

Nick 9918 Thank you for the information, sailor. Looks like I am another one of Wikipedia’s many victims.

gcHK47 No problem, glad to help.

QMs navigate the ship

@@Nick-ck2yc Do you like being a QM or do you feel like you were lied to? Cause I want to be a QM and my recruiters gave me CS so I'm trying to get a DAR for QM.

Hunter Cihal why is that a problem? BM’s are the backbone of a ship and the oldest rate in the Navy. Just because you were “dirty, sweaty, and tired” doesn’t mean there are people out there who wouldn’t enjoy that job. Sorry how miserable it was for you while you were a cadet spending some days on a boat.

A lot of BMs get tricked into the rate by their recruiters. Perhaps I should have mentioned that.

Hunter Cihal true that. The torture is real

You realize that most BMs do hard work until they reach 2nd sometimes 3rd class to which they become leaders and are some of the most respected people on the boat because they lead all boat evolutions, know the ship in and out, and are the true meaning of a sailor. There are 3rd class BMs leading more junior sailors than a first class in another rate. Maybe you should understand the rate and respect the rate before you go off and start mouthing off about something you clearly know nothing about, other than your field trip as a “cadet”. As a first class in another rate, I’ve met many BM’s and they are some of the hardest working salty sailors you’ll ever meet. And they also have had quite the careers around the world. Maybe instead of reflecting on how bad you may think this job is, reflect on all that “hard” work you did with them and understand without them the navy wouldn’t be the fighting force it is today. The Navy needs BMs that’s why this video was created. Every sailor counts. Remember that when you wear that “cadet” uniform...

Oi, someone is touchy. However I digress, since you are defensive and what should have been a good knock on rates in general that most former's really wont care, and get a few good laughs in, cool down man. You know at heart, after work when shooting the sh!ts, we all knock on one another and have neutral respect among all the rates. Seriously man, we all know how much BMs can do, even the ones that go on to become chiefs and warrant officers. Salty as fu=k, yes. BMs clean, scrap, paint, everything on the ship. We know.

Were you a boatswains mate?did you hate it?do you ever regret joining the Navy for this job?