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Future Female MM :(
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Permalink Reply by JessicaB-Sailor Mom on
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I left you a greeting message on your page with links and other info that may be helpful
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Thanks alot!
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I was an EN for 10 1/2 years before changing rates. What would you like to know about the Engineering rate? When I wasn an EN, I was only 1 of maybe 2 female Engineers on my ship. Now a days it is about 30-40% females on each ship.
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Ok so im taking it EN is somewhat the same?? because alot of people i have talked to EN has came up in the conversation! But i just want to know the REAL information bout the rating...i mean i read all the informational links and websites but i still just dont get it! is it a very difficult job? will i be able to handle it? all people have really told me is that is will be EXTREMELY HOT and you will get dirty! i just want to be more prepared!
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Only difference between EN and MM is MM works on Steam plants and EN's work on Diesel engine's. All the other equipement is the same, AC/R, R/O system, laundry, galley, aft steering, ect... All the stuff you read about.
When I joined I was 5'6" just under 100lb's and my first ship was a steam ship so there where more MM's than EN's but we all did the same things didn't matter your rate you where an engineer you worked. I wasa put in the pit (where the main engines where) and they where ran by steam, so yep it was really hot! Well me being soo small I got sick from all the heat. So after I got better they put me with the top side engineers. I didn't get to work in the pit anymore ( boo) but I worked on the AC/R and the landry and galley equipement along with the engines on the small boats. I had issues with the heat, but that is me and I still do to this day.
As for the tools and manuel labor, i found ways to do things. LOL! On one of the engines I worked with, one of the tools was almost 4 feet long and really heavy. well I won't let the guys carry it for me, so one of the welders helped me build a cart that I could pull down the p-way which I put my tools on and would pull to where I needed to go. Well it got to some of the guys would pick on me for it, but I let it roll off my back. Than one day the guys needed to move something really heavy and they had to come beg to use my cart. After that they didn't mess with me for doing things smarter.
My thoughts are that being an engineer is soo much fun. After you fix something you get to see it working right away. People always need you on the ship. If the AC/R breaks everyone wants you to fix it. If the laundry fixed, people will stink unless you fix it. If the galley equipment breaks, the whole crew can be eating cold cut's until you fix it. Most important if the ship is ran by steam, if there is no steam the ship isn't anything with out you fixing it.
If you want it you will do GREAT!
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Thanks...that helps alot!!! sooo i guess i just hav to accept the fact that im going to be hot lol! im actually 4'9 bout 140 lbs soooo i know im going to be struggling already!...i have put in a DAR form supposely but they inquired that its a 50/50 chance of getting my rate changed! but thats if he even put the form in!...So the pit is worst than steam ship? it sounds like a rough job but i guess its all in your mind!
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No the pit is what the engine room of any ship is called. It is in the pit of the ship, down in the furtherest spot of the ship that is why it is called the pit.
What is funny is most times the engineering spaces are hot, but they make the AC for the rest of the ship. It is hot due to the equipment running.
Keep in mind if you don't want to be an MM, once you leave for bootcamp if that is the rate in your contract that is the rate you are getting. You can't change in bootcamp, and if you fail out of "A" School odds are you will go undes fireman which means you will still be working with the engineers
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im begining to become a lil comfortable as each day goes by...im glued to the cpu looking up all the info i can!! :) but im very anxious for april to get here...but i know it will be extra hard on me because im sooo short lol and im pretty sure the equipment is bigger than me lol!!! now do you know anything bout the carriers?? like the different opportunties ??
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Permalink Reply by RWG (ship 09, div. 206) on
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Congratulations on your decision to join the Navy. My son goes in on april 19th also.
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Thanks and tell your son the same...and what is his rate?
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His rate is IT. Goes to pensacola for A-school
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RWG here are a couple of groups for you to join http://www.navyformoms.com/group/leavinforbootcampinapril here you'll connect with other N4M's as well as get info that will be helpful to the both of you
Also join the A school group and the rating group
There are several dads on here...the is a NavyDads.com group but it isn't as chatty and supportive as this one. I'm a member there but aren't on there very much. They do have good info. It isn't sponsered by the Navy whereas this site is.
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