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AECF Rate Leaving For Boot Camp In Aug
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Permalink Reply by Craig on
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It all depend if you'll be a FC or a ET. Go to this link, at the end it will shows the weeks required.
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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From end to end, you can expect at least a year, and up to two years in school. During hold times, you will get bored and frustrated, but remind yourself you are being paid, with all sorts of benefits. Many folks are not. Keep busy and enjoy your time pre-fleet.
I was an ET, ages ago. Loved my job, usually.
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Permalink Reply by GSMfitzgerald on
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Sooo Anti M in total how long did it take you to finish your schooling?
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Permalink Reply by CaptainFatso on
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Yep. ET is a solid rating with very transferable skills. It got me my first post navy job with HP and helped me to establish a decent career.
As for me, I was indeed school for two years. Being part of a precom crew meant that the command had all kinds of time to send me to C Schools. My flipping head was exploding by the time we put to sea.
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I Know I will either be in VA or CA for C School when you get assigned a certain system to work on but do they assign you that system or do you get to choose?
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Things may have changed, but it used to be the needs of your first duty station determined the C School that you were going to. For example, if you went to a Perry Class Frigate as an FC, you were likely going to attend school for the Mark 92 Fire Control System.
Back in the day, you had some control over your final duty station. Orders were assigned to a graduating class. So if a class had 35 graduates, it would receive 35 sets of orders. If you graduated first in your class, you picked first from those 35 sets of orders. If you graduated last, you went to Adak, Alaska.
Funny thing is that I stressed for no reason. I was 11th in may class and was worried that there would be no orders left for the west coast. It never occurred to me that people actually wanted to be stationed in Norfolk, Pearl, Guam or the Philippines. By the time it was my turn, I had my first pick for all orders on the west coast.
I'll be interested to learn how they do it now.
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Permalink Reply by Angie on
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Sometimes school orders are still done that way, but more often then not..they are just handed out..maybe the first 2-5 will get to pick from the list that the class is given..but more often than not they just get what they get.
Also they have the students fill out a dream sheet.. (yep, just what it sounds like, a dream) I think it makes the students feel like they have control over where they are going..which they don't. If it just happens they put CA on the dream sheet and get CA...it is just the luck of the draw.
As for the "C" school...again that is just the needs of the Navy.....also many of the AECF students get their "C" School orders...go to "C" school..than get there duty station orders part way through "C" school.
When I went through "A" School...it was like how you got orders...
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here are a couple of groups that are pertinent to you http://www.navyformoms.com/group/fcsfirecontrol and http://www.navyformoms.com/group/leavinforbootcampinaugust
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