Search Tips:

The search can be as simple or as complex as you need it to be. Usually you will just need to enter a few words that best describe that which you are trying to locate. To perform more complicated searches you might use any combination of logic operators, special pattern matchers, concept expansion, or proximity operations.

Example: cadet advancement petty officer

Query Rules of Thumb:

• If you get too many junk or nonsense answers, try:
  1. Add some more words to your query.
  2. Decrease the range of the Proximity control.
  3. Change the Word Forms control to Exact.
  4. Look at the Match Info and see why they are showing up.
  5. Use the Exclusion Operator (-) to remove unwanted terms.
  6. If you are searching for a phrase, hyphenate the words together.
     
     
• If you don't get any answers, or just too few:
  1. Remove some more words to your query.
  2. Examine your spelling.
  3. Increase the scope of the Proximity control.
  4. It just might not be there?