Wilfredo Barrera, a seaman from the destroyer USS Donald Cook, was told he would be "the dog of the Navy ... a hierarchy," Barrera said as he explained that undesignated sailors are given some ...

Sailors and Marines man the rails on the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) on Dec. 20, 2024. US Navy Photo It will ... billets in the higher ranks that were overfilled.