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Does anyone have a B/F or Hubby in Avaition Warfare??
Hello, my husband will be picking his job for the Navy next week and he has two that he wants to get into..Intelligence Specialist and Avaition Warfare. He really wants to do Avaition Warfare and i'm alittle nervous about this job. I know no job in the Navy is safe but this one to me seems very dangerous. i dont want to tell him not to do because of my worries, i want to support him in whatever job he picks. Do anyone know anything about this Avaition Warfare? I've tryied looking for a group about Avaition warfare but there isnt one that i found. Does anyone have any info on this job or a B/F or husband in this job now?? Any info would be greatly appreciated!!
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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http://usmilitary.about.com/od/enlistedjob1/a/aw.htm
It isn't that bad, although helicopters are pretty dangerous in themselves. Basically, they're aircrew. Could be doing a lot of different tasks, including flight attendant!!! Very deployable units, which means he could be out to sea/overseas a lot. Very long A schools, and will likely go to a C school for a specialty.
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Thank you for the info Anti..What's the likely that a helicopter crashes?? How long and how often will he deploy?? When he is out to sea or oversea, can myself and our son go with him?? How much will we get to see him?? He's going in as a E3 and he's signed for 6 years on the first sign he's going career though so his recruiter said he will go through A school and C school, does that mean we will be able to go with him too for his schooling?? His recruiter said he could go AW Acoustic, AW Non-Acoustic, or Helicopter AW??
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Helicopters aren't that bad, just part of the job. They just can be scary. The Navy is big on safety, so don't fret too much. Darn things just scare me.
How often he deploys depends on his duty station. If he's on a carrier, he goes by that schedule, which can be six months or more at a time. Sounds like he'll get E-4 through his school contract, that' what six years usually means. That's good, because then if he gets based overseas, you might qualify to go too.
With a long school, you can move to where he is training, and he can get permission to live with you. Once he gets to his first duty station after school, he can live with you. His job will take him away for months in a row now and then, which is a deployment, and you stay behind and do your best until he comes back. You'll see him. There will long stretches when you don't, but communications are pretty good these days. When he is home, he might work what seems like a day job with occasional duty days.
Does this give you a better picture of married Navy life?
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So if someone gets stationed overseas for their duty station , their dependents don't get to go with them to live on base? My husband has been through a tech school and xray school total of 1800 hours so his recruiter told him that Navy will honor that so he will sign for E3 or higher. And he will be going through A and C school. So the Navy will move me and my son to where he's training and pay for it or is it on my dime? How long does the school have to be?? I'm so new at this so i'm sure i'm going to learn alot about the Navy along the way.. :) thank for answering all my question, your a huge help!
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The school has to be six months or longer, roughly. I forget how many weeks, 20 something. The Navy will pay to move you if the school is that long.
If he gets an overseas duty station, he must be an E-4 or above to take dependents. E-3 and below are not authorized to take dependents overseas. Pretty simple. They try not to send the married ones overseas, but if they need him there, he goes. Don't worry about that just yet.
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