Chris asked:

im kind of hoping someone thats been in the navy a long time or retired navy reads this.

basically im trying to see how a permanent duty swap would work, in order to get out of my current duty station. you see its not that i **** where i am, or anything like that.

simply its just not beneficial for me to be at my current station. I am a fleet engineering rate, Machinery Repairman who is stationed with the Seabees. I dont **** the seabees, but, i simply cannot learn my job here. dont have the proper tools, etc etc. and when i approach my chain of command about certain things they want me to do that i simply cannot do because i dont have the proper tools, they look at me like im lying.

the truth is, i am 1 of 2 people with my job in my battallion out of 700 people. no one here understands my rate.

its a lot of rambling, but basically how would i go about getting the ball rolling on trying to duty swap out of here.