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The Navy's Advanced Electronics / Computer Field offers extensive training in all aspects of electronics including computer systems, radars, communications systems and weapons fire control systems such as the Navy's advanced missile system, Aegis. The standards for selection for enlistment in the Navy's Advanced Electronics / Computer Field are high. Personnel interested in applying for Advanced Electronics / Computer Field should be seriously interested in pursuing the challenge this highly technical field offers. They must be mature, ready to take on significant responsibility and willing to apply themselves. Enlistees enter as E-1s (seaman recruits). Advancement to paygrade E-2 (seaman apprentice) will be made after successful completion of recruit training. Advancement to E-3 will be made after completion of all advancement-in-rate requirements (including minimum time and course work). Advancement to paygrade E-4 (petty officer third class) will be made after successful completion of initial school training and after all advancement-in-rate requirements (including minimum time and course work) are completed. Advancement to E-3 and E-4 is contingent upon maintaining eligibility in the Advanced Electronics / Computer Field program. Eligible personnel may be paid bonuses at the time of re-enlistment. All bonuses are in addition to Navy salary and allowances for food and housing.

What They Do:

Only two Navy job specialties, called "ratings," are included in the Advanced Electronics / Computer Field: Electronics Technician (ET) and Fire Controlman (FC). The rating in which an Advanced Electronics / Computer Field candidate is trained is determined in the initial phase of the Advanced Electronics Technical Core Course in Great Lakes, Ill. However, eligibility requirements are the same for both ratings in the Advanced Electronics / Computer Field. ETs maintain and repair electronics equipment such as radar, communication and navigation equipment. The ET and FC (AEF) ratings comprise the basis of the ship's Combat Systems department aboard ships and are responsible for maintaining the ship's readiness for combat operations.

Detailed List of Required Duties

ASVAB Score:A

AR+MK+EI+GS=223

Other Requirements:

Must have normal color perception. Must have normal hearing. Security Clearance, (SECRET) Requirement. Must be U.S. citizen

Technical Training Information:

Not Available.

Working Environment:

Jobs performed by ETs and FCs are performed throughout the Navy's fleet of surface ships including aircraft carriers and Aegis cruisers, and at repair activities ashore.

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It's a little confusing Donna, he is in the A school program but it has some steps to it and they are ALL computer classes. He will get to do some labs in the A school portion but it's all about the computer modules.

After boot camp, he went to indoc for a few days, SCC and then to ATT - which is apprentice technical training, once he completes that he will usually starts the physical "A" school immediately but all of these programs make up A school for the ETs.

Alot of folks think they go from boot camp directly into A school but...these other classes make up his A school as well and they are factored into his orders as far as how much time he will be in GL. As long as he is sitting in front of one of those computers - it's a good thing :-D
Hi Julissa,

I can't answer the "why" about the moving from ship to ship, but my son, Dan, has moved about 6 times, and he just started A school a week before Christmas break. One time he moved twice in one day - he had just gotten settled in when he was told he had to move again! Something about some other group they wanted to move into that building as a group, so several others had to move out. He started out in the USS Cole, which I guess is newest and maybe nicest. Then maybe the Franklin, I'm not sure, but he didn't like that building, whatever it was. Now he's in his 3rd or 4th of a row of ships, which are all closer to the main gate than the Cole, which is about as far as you can get I think! He has seemed to like all of these latest buildings ok. His last move was to the Bonhomme Richard, and it was upon graduating ATT - so at least it made some kind of sense. He is housed with his classmates in A-school. They are all attending school nights (what I think of as 2nd shift), apparently the daytime classtime is full. I can see a lot of sense in housing people attending school 2nd shift together - since they would keep different hours than those attending school in the daytime.

I wish we could see their rooms and not just the entry area (aka quarter deck)... We live a 3 1/2 hour drive away, so I get there sometimes and was just there on Sunday. It is really an attractive "campus" if you can see past the freezing conditions! It's prettier when there's grass and leaves!
The moving of Sailors at GL before the holidays was crazy madness - it seemed like some of them did move twice in a day. Typically (goodness, I use that word alot here!) they move into one building after PIR and stay there thru SCC and then move to their "permanent" home for the duration of A school. Hopefully it will settle back into that now that the holidays have passed.

I have seen photos of the rooms in the newer buildings - they are actually very nice. One of the moms of a female sailor was able to take pictures while visiting. I'm sure if I asked my son...can I see your room - he will tell me a big NO because my first question would be...why did you keep your bedroom this clean at home!!! LOL
I have two sons in the Navy both are ETs -- Pat just made E5 with the last exam so they are both currently ET2s.
I live in Arizona but now have a place to stay when I go to visit them because Chris bought a house in Norfolk and Pat is his roommate (Pat currently is on deployment). Chris is stationed in Little Creek and is going to school it seems every other week for something new. Both of them had their C schools in Norfolk and their A school in Great lakes.
Congrats to Pat on his E5 or to you JoAnn for having two ET2s! It is great that they are continuing in school even after finishing C school. The more schools the better! You must love that they room together, sounds like you have a couple of sharp sons.
Liesa Marie - here is the ET description -
The basic ET job description:

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/enlistedjob1/a/et.htm

But it far more complicated than that.

The very, very many ET specialities (NECs):

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/navynecs/a/et.-urm.htm
Electronic Technicians (ETs) are responsible for electronic equipment used to send and receive messages, computer information systems, long range radar, and calibration of test equipment. They maintain, repair, calibrate, tune, and adjust electronic equipment used for communications, detection and tracking, recognition and identification, navigation.

What did I do as an ET? I worked on secure voice communications, I had a Top Secret clearance. I was stationed at Communication Stations, as women were not allowed on ships "back then." ETs aboard ships are usually working in either communications OR radar OR the computerized systems, a few have the C schools and clearance to cross-train and work on a variety of things. Some gear may only be touched by an ET who has a clearance and the school, this is common with crypto gear.

What is an ETs daily job? I can tell you the shore duty half. Ships have a lot more going on, as all hands must keep the ship clean and safe. More drills at sea.

The main thing we did was PMS. Planned Maintenance System. If this has changed, let me know, but I'm fairly certain it still works the same way (I'll look it up if I can find it). On Monday, there is a new weekly PMS board signed and posted. The gear is on long schedules, monthly and annual. This provides for planning to take systems out of service to do the maintenance checks. So most ETs know what their week will be like even before that Monday board comes up. Maintenance is printed on cards which specify every detail of cleaning, checking and servicing gear. There are PMS checks performed by work center supervisors, the LPO, the Chief and the 3-M manager. No cheating!

The second big part of what we did was troubleshooting gear and systems. Some stuff must be up and running full time. If it goes down, the ETs work until their gear is up. This means time off and liberty, even leave in extreme cases, is not going to happen until the gear is running.

Test equipment? That was different ETs at a different command. There's a C school just for fixing test equipment. I imagine some shipboard ETs would have that NEC! We were not supposed to mess with the insides of our tests equipment, we didn't have the gear to recalibrate it.

Paperwork. You have to sign off on all sorts of things, be able to order parts. And there's a work center log and a duty log ... and so on. Then there's training and courses and military evals. The more you advance, the more paperwork you do and the less hands on you get. The lower ranks do the cleaning. Fridays are often field days... no, not sports, cleaning. And a working party is a detail with a specific job to finish, not a party at all, LOL.

And duty, the commsta ETs had a rotation which was less than at school or on a ship. I stood duty two or three times a month, and that meant staying overnight at work so there was always a tech on hand. If you couldn't work on the specific gear, you had to know who to call to get their tails into work at all hours. Liberty can be canceled anytime. When there was a typhoon, we had to stay at work if we were "essential personnel". That meant no one else could do our job, so we hand to stay until the all clear was called.

Does that help?
Thanks Anti M...appreciate you.

Liesa Marie
Anti M, Mary.............my son is an E4, and let me tell you ladies, I learn a lot from you both of what my son does in the Navy! Thanks, great explanation!
We're all here to help each other Mabel, glad you find info helpful.
Mary: my son has been in the Navy for more than 4 years and I so happy about this site, I have learned a lot thanks to moms like you! Always you can find a lot o info here!

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