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Comment by sunshine73 on March 30, 2013 at 9:59am

my sailor got pinned this morning with his surface warfare pin. So proud of him! He earned it last month but had to wait until his 90th day at sea to get pinned. Pictures to come...

Comment by NavyMom4J on March 26, 2013 at 7:04pm

Craig-how can I get my sailor in touch with you to talk about his coming to Denver to meet you?  He said he wants to chat - he would love to meet you and see if you are available to ask you some questions - see the facilities here in Denver when he comes home in July- I think you said he needs to get a ticket? can you let me know so i can put him in touch with you?  THANKS

Comment by Connie821 on March 16, 2013 at 10:51pm

Yep, it makes sense, thanks Craig. So eventually my CTR son will have to earn the ESWS and th EIDWS too? On his first enlistment, generally?

Comment by Craig on March 15, 2013 at 7:31pm

Ty's - Welcome to the spook shack....~ha

If you look above in the discussion area you will find lots of stuff...  Here is one you should look at:

http://www.navyformoms.com/group/ctratemoms/forum/topics/ct-info-ev...

Comment by Ty's mom on March 15, 2013 at 11:07am

Good morning everyone, I am new this group my son is in boot camp now and will be graduating on 4/19!!! After bootcamp he will be going to Pensacola A school for CTT. What can you tell me about a CTT other than they will be refered to as spooks, lol.

Comment by CTmomof3 on March 15, 2013 at 10:12am

Than;ks Craig,  I can't seem to get this site to download.  After 10 minutes it wasn't even 1/4 done so I gave up.  Must be the site/document as my computer isn't normally slow.   Career wise in your opinion is the program a good thing to get into?  He won't know till April if he's been accepted.

Comment by Craig on March 15, 2013 at 2:22am

CTmomof3 - Military COMINT Signals Analyst Program (MCSAP) means he's a CTR with the NEC 9147. Remember CTR's do the COMINT (Communication Intelligence) and the CTT do the ELINT (Electronic Intelligence).  I can't really go into the 9147, however, I will show you the unclassified statement.  Just go here and scroll down till you get to 9147 (there all 4 digit numbers).  They are in numerical order.

http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/reference/nec/NECOSVolII/Docu...

Comment by Craig on March 15, 2013 at 2:16am

Connie - The easiest way to explain it is using the Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist (ESWS) as an example.  When I got my ESWS pin it was brand new program.  Now it is a require program, just like all the other warfare pins.

Lets use the USS Stark as an example.  The manning of the USS Stark is 200 sailors.  When Iraq fired upon the USS Stark with two French exocet missiles it killed 37 sailors, and severely injured 21. How can a ship survive with 1/4 the ship out of commission?  It because the crew had their ESWS pins.  With ESWS you qualify are each station on the ship.  You might work in the deck department one week, the Gunnery department the next, the signal bridge the next, and it continues until you qualify at all stations.  Does it mean you know that job?  No, it only means you have the basic knowledge and can be easily trained to take over compared to someone that doesn't have ESWS.  It gives the CO a "warm-fuzzy" knowing that his crew is fully qualified when/if something happens.  The ship can continuing fighting with downed shipmates.  

Same as the EIDWS pin.  You have to learn about everything.  You don't just know your job, you know what everyone is doing....  

Make sense? 

Comment by Connie821 on March 14, 2013 at 7:28pm

Craig, what is the significance of the enlisted information dominance warfare specialist?  What do the CTs have to do to get there? 

Comment by sammy1990 on March 14, 2013 at 4:55pm

oh, and another search said the M is for military.

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