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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on April 28, 2008 at 5:37pm

What is a Fire Controlman?
Fire Controlmen (FC) provide system employment recommendations; perform organizational and intermediate maintenance on digital computer equipment, subsystems, and systems; operate and maintain combat and weapons direction systems, surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missile systems, and gun fire control systems at the organizational and intermediate level; inspect, test, align, and repair micro/minicomputers and associated peripheral equipment, data conversion units, data display equipment, data link terminal equipment, print devices, and system related equipment; make analyses for detailed systems, computer programs, electronics, and electronic casualty control; and operate associated built-in and external test equipment; load, initialize, and run preprogrammed diagnostic, performance and testing routines for digital computer equipment, digital subsystems, digital systems, and overall combat systems.

Here is a general list of what we are responsible for…

ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONIC MAINTENANCE
ELECTRONIC SUPPORT EQUIPMENT
ELECTRONIC CASUALTY CONTROL
ELECTRONIC HAZARDOUS MATERIAL CONTROL
COMPUTER AND PERIPHERAL MAINTENANCE
COMPUTER SYSTEMS OPERATIONS
WEAPONS HANDLING/MAINTENANCE
COMBAT DIRECTION/WEAPONS DIRECTION/FIRE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAINTENANCE
COMBAT DIRECTION/WEAPONS DIRECTION/FIRE CONTROL SYSTEMS OPERATIONS
COMBAT SYSTEM READINESS ASSESSMENT
ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
RADAR MAINTENANCE
We are a very unique rate that is responsible for numerous equipment.

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on April 28, 2008 at 5:33pm

Navy Enlisted Rating (Job) Descriptions and Qualification Factors
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Fire Controlman (FC)
General Info:

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.

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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. FCs operate, maintain and repair the electronic, computer and control mechanisms used in weapons systems. 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.

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