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Comment by Craig on August 12, 2011 at 7:08pm

When you're in Hong Kong, the Philippines, or Korea, and they say since you never finished you ESWS PQS, you'll not be going off the ship on liberty.  It's a wake up call.  There's no pushing at all.  It all rest upon the sailor.

Comment by Craig on August 12, 2011 at 6:13pm

Sandy - Let me tell you what the ESWS does, then I will tell you what needs to be done to earn it.

The ESWS pin means a sailor is qualified to stand the different positions on the ship.  It doesn't mean he's fully qualified, but he's one that has the basic idea of how to do it.  

Why is it needed?  The Navy knows that every ship is vunable to some type of problem.  For example, on May 17, 1987 Iraq fire two Exocet antiship missiles at the USS Stark.  Both hit the ship.  37 sailors were killed and 21 were injured. A ship must still be able to fight and carry on, but 58 sailors are now dead or injured.  Who does it?  When something like this happens, then they will grab the most qualified sailors, the ones with ESWS, to fill in for those that our gone.  Yes, their own division will suffer a little, but now the ship has all the positions covered again.  It can return to fighting.  So the ESWS guys are the ones that are very knowledable of the whole ship.  Which is a really good thing.

Now for the qualifications.  You have two Personal Qualification Standards (PQS) books.  One is just the common stuff that all sailors need to know, then you have the book that is written for each specific ship.  So the entire book must be sign off, and to earn those signatures, you have to stand duty at each position.

It took me about 9 months to earn mine.  It is really hard...

I will attached both the common PQS and a Ship specific book (I used the USS Arleigh Burke class which is about 64 different ships) here....

ESWS_Common_Core.pdf

ESWS_DDG-51.pdf

Comment by Craig on August 12, 2011 at 8:40am

clockard - the rule for the IDW are the same for SW.  You must get one.  When I got my ESWS pin, it was actually new and no one had it.  The incentive to get one was it gave you 2 points on the advancement test.  However, those days are long gone.  For any "pins" you get no award points.

Secondly, if you don't get your pin within your time limit then your liberty is gone until you do get it.  All liberty and leave is cancelled.   If it gets to that point, your career has basically ended.  It will be documented with a Page 13 in your service record and you will go no further in the Navy.  

Being so new, alot of commands haven't set the start time for the sailors yet.  But those days are coming too.  I bet within a 18 months, everyone on this board will have a sailor that has a IDW pin.  Nerd warfare is here and now!

Comment by momoffour(Ship 11 div 119) on August 12, 2011 at 3:55am

Back form being sick and trying  to read everything and catch up! Congrats on your son's medal Craig, that is really impressive and I know you are a beyond proud dad!! Someone below mentioned the nerd pin, my son said that they are now required to get it and given a deadline, he has to have his within a year from now. I saw the pics below, are there two or are you showing the gold and silver, you can choose from LOL (I am thinking choosing your color is not a Navy thing, but us girls would love it!!).

Comment by ActiveDutyCTN on August 11, 2011 at 11:41pm

ION is basically a four month course to receive intensive training on very specific software...not the "over the counter" stuff in Best Buy ;-)

Comment by Craig on August 11, 2011 at 11:40pm

christy - Beleive it or not, clockard just ask that question about a week ago.  Go look at page ~5 for my post on 8-5-11 @ 11:04am in this thread.

 

Ellen - I was an "M" also.  What years where you?  I was 1978 thru 1996 (took the early retirement).  What was your NEC?  I was TACINTEL, then I moved to DF, then I went to Classic Wizard.  

Comment by Ellen S. on August 11, 2011 at 10:29pm

Cool looking.  I was an "M" brancher.  Never got to sea.  Rats.

Comment by Craig on August 11, 2011 at 9:38pm

 

Ellen - It's the new warfare pin earn by those that are nerds,  It's called the Enlisted Information Dominance Warfare Specialist (IDW) pin (akaNerd Warfare)

It came out about 1 1/2 years ago, and not many have it.  It's just sooo new.  But one you get it then you will be authorised to use that in your rating designation:  Like CTT2(IDW) similar to a surface warfare guy having CTT2(SW).  So let say you have both a Surface Warfare and a IDW, then you'd be a CTT2 (SW/IDW).  It just a way that people know you went that extra step.  

Here is the very 1st sailors to earn it... Both gals, both CTN's.  They are CTN1(IDW) Theresa Verity and CTN1(IDW) Michelle Krecota.
Well Done! Very impressive.  

I actually wrote about this on Oct 30, 2010 @ 3:17am.  Just seach back to page 50 or so....

 

Here is the offical stuff:

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=51448

 

http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/reference/messages/Documents/...

 

Here is the Navy Times article, which is good:

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2011/02/SUNDAY1navy-information-domin...

 

 

Comment by Ellen S. on August 11, 2011 at 9:05pm

Okay Craig, what is the NERD warfare.  I know SS, SW, AW

Comment by Craig on August 11, 2011 at 8:36pm

Sandy - Awesome picture of the medal.  I actually stole that and put it on other areas....  (I finally spelled medal correctly ~ha)

ITnow - You really have to be into the software for 9308 & 9309.  I don't beleive there is billets in Korea or Japan for that NEC.  You may want to check on CMS.  

Ellen - Thanks... Next step for him is getting the Nerd Warfare pin.  I hope he gets that....

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