Swingwing.... After that motivational prose, sign me up!... oh, hang on, I'm already in <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
Oh, and the phone number is 13 1901 (as in the year of federation, get it?)
Franks...... .Not being a Nav myself, but happy to speak for them, I believe that Navs on J-model Hercs are going to be a very rare species. The future for the Nav corps lies in bombers and maritime patrol. I'll leave comments on the bomber force to Swingwing, but on P-3s the Nav is one of the hardest working folks... (please don't tell any of them that I said that!) They tend to work longer hours (in preperation and debrief) than the rest of us, but they do get the fun bit of actually running the release of a weapon (so long as the pilot has authorised said release by switching on the Master Arm switch).
Job prospects above the rank of Flight Lieutenant are pretty much the same for both Pilots and Navs - and flying jobs get rarer and rarer as you go on. Having said that, it still looks like it'll be a cold day in a very warm place when a Nav gets to be Chief of Air Force.