New House On The Left.. "A New Hope"

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Were you a snipe?

Yup. I was a Machinist's Mate. I hear tell that the MM rating had the BT rating folded into it (long after I got out- '76), so one could go to MM "A" school and actually end up a Boiler Tech. That's probably the worst job in the Navy, IMO...until the turd chasers (HTs) actually had to tend to sanitary facilities, instead of ships just blowing the shit over the side, in port.

I started out as an EN,  you can guess where I went with that rating. Crossdecked to MM in 1975. The pit snipes were separate ratings when I retired in 1989. Last ship I was on, Peleliu had MMs (A-gang) running the sewage treatment plants. YMMV