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AECF - FCs and ETs

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For families that have a loved one serving the Navy as an FC or an ET. This is the place to share and learn more about their jobs and schools. For subs - look for the SECF group.

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Comment by Anti M on August 8, 2012 at 11:02am: Depends if he's an ET or an FC. He'll find out in boot camp. My hubby and I were ETs. Both are sea-going rates. FCs work on ship weapons systems, ETs work more with radar or communications. ETs have more choices for shore duty. I'd say expect a surface ship right away.

He will go to a C school after A school, although some FCs have been reporting to their ship first.

Comment by ssbeach on August 8, 2012 at 9:41am: Hello all. My son signed up yesterday to be an AECF - he's leaving for boot camp in March. I know quite a bit about the Navy, since my son-in-law is a nuke on a sub in Guam, but not a thing about surface or other rates (as a nuke on a sub, my son-in-law doesn't really get much of a chance to interact with anyone but the galley guys on the boat). Can someone give me just a bit of an idea - which I know is different for everyone, of course - of what he might be doing after school?

Comment by Anti M on August 2, 2012 at 8:21am: 1148 is an Aegis. I'm surprised it isn't on the about.com. Must be a newer configuration.

NECs can vary as new systems/updates are made.

Performs Preventative and Corrective Maintenance (PM/CM) on the MK-99 AEGIS Fire Control System (FCS), MK84 400Hz Power Distribution System (PDS), and the Air Cooled Solid State Frequency Power Generation System on Baseline 7.1 and higher AEGIS units (CG and DDG).

Comment by Lissette on August 1, 2012 at 10:27pm: Her NEC is 1148.

Comment by Anti M on July 31, 2012 at 9:59pm: FCS is Fire Control System. cots is commercial off the shelf. I'm thinking radar. Is there a four digit NEC code on her orders?

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/navynecs/a/fcm.htm

Comment by Lissette on July 31, 2012 at 9:46pm: I guess it is fcs 400hz cots - still wondering what that is

Comment by Lissette on July 31, 2012 at 9:40pm: My daughter got her C school orders. She is FC and her orders are for FCS 400 COTS (or something like that). Anyone have more info on what this is? She will be going to Dahlgren for C school at the end of September. She already knows the base and ship she will be assigned to when she graduates C school in March.

Comment by duhhuh58 Ship 10/Div 267 on July 31, 2012 at 9:23pm: well, my daughter finally got her C school orders. leaving great lakes on 8/7 and has to report to dahlgren on 8/10. 4 1/2 hours from home, i'm a happy mom!

Comment by Anti M on July 31, 2012 at 6:34pm: "line capacitor" (on a power line, they smooth out the interference and "dirt" on the electricity/power source)

Comment by Anti M on July 31, 2012 at 6:32pm: Ibkmom, classing up varies so much, Maybe one of the other moms who had a recent student go through can share their experience.

BR, good question on the length. The contract has been broken, so that can change. How it changes depends on what they do with him.

Better a desk job than chipping paint. ETs do need normal hearing, we use tones in some systems.

I had my hearing damaged as an ET, a lne capacitor blew up next to my head. Slight tear which healed, but I was sick to my stomach for weeks and had bad balance. Of course they wanted me to keep working the night it happened, it was an emergency repair. I refused because I was seeing double. The other tech who came in raised hell about working late, but I tore his happy butt to pieces for not wanting to do his job. He dodged a lot of the on call midnight crap. Should have been his head exploding, grrr.