Mark Warner: “I have always felt that the backbone of the Navy was the bosun's mate. Yet we find in the Navy that the bosun's mate is…”

“I have always felt that the backbone of the Navy was the bosun's mate. Yet we find in the Navy that the bosun's mate is the lowest paid, while the electronic technician, the computer specialist, and others, who are of equal rank--or rate, to be accurate--receive a much higher salary. We did that for practical reasons, which was that it was an absolute criticality of maintaining people in the Navy and other branches of the military who had these critical skills.”