If you go back to sea from New York and your sea tour is 48 months, you only have to do two years, and you're back on shore duty. As further incentive, recruiting duty offers educational opportunities that aren't available on most types of duty. You can recruit and go to school at the same time. Furthermore, recruiters receive a Navy warm-up suit as part of organizational clothing that they can use to prospect for recruits in their communities at events like high school football games, or just walking through a mall. While there are many tangible benefits associated with recruiting, assignment to recruiting duty is also hectic and challenging.
Time management is a challenge.
There is one benefit, however, not tangible but immediate, according to Marbey. What I like most is the satisfaction when a recruit looks at me and says he wants to join the Navy, and I know he's going to do well. Under Secretary in touch with Sailors and Marines by Lt. He took one day out of his trip to stop in Haifa during his tour through the European and Mediterranean theaters. You're forward deployed, exercising with other nations, ready to do the job when the chips are down.