Where will I end up?

sweetmtn · 04-18-2012, 07:59 PM

My friend that is an ET, his first duty was in Iraq, was "suppose" to be putting in all the electronic communications, but ended up mostly getting coffee for the Marines stationed at that post and fixing all the stuff they broke. He was also an instructor for "C" school for another duty, a recruiter for another, a ship earlier, and in his final tour is with Admiral Staff fixing their office stuff on a carrier in VA. You may get a "dream sheet", but sometimes you make the choices by the location(where in this world do you want to be) not the job/ship/shore.

Craig · 04-18-2012, 10:24 PM

If your smart you'd tell your instructors that your family works on "ground terminals" and you'd like to get into that area too. Ground terminals are the 85 foot dishes that collect the satellite payloads. You can't put those dishes on ships (well there is 2 you can). Thus you will get a shore billet.

You want this NEC

NAtomS · 05-09-2012, 01:59 PM

Dont worry ETs arent THAT bad. Me being a FC or course im a little bias, but ETs still have some cool things you can do. I have a friend that got accepted into Devgroup( i think that was the name) and he basically works with the Seals. He had to go to dive school and do all the things pre buds do. You can still go IA. ETs do have a higher probablity of getting shore duty but whether you get ET or FC im sure youll be happy.

04-18-2012, 10:24 PM	#2
Craig Administrator Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Centennial, Colorado Posts: 2,767 Rep Power: 286	If your smart you'd tell your instructors that your family works on "ground terminals" and you'd like to get into that area too. Ground terminals are the 85 foot dishes that collect the satellite payloads. You can't put those dishes on ships (well there is 2 you can). Thus you will get a shore billet. You want this NEC __________________

04-18-2012, 07:59 PM	#1
sweetmtn Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: N. CA Posts: 3,792 Rep Power: 0	My friend that is an ET, his first duty was in Iraq, was "suppose" to be putting in all the electronic communications, but ended up mostly getting coffee for the Marines stationed at that post and fixing all the stuff they broke. He was also an instructor for "C" school for another duty, a recruiter for another, a ship earlier, and in his final tour is with Admiral Staff fixing their office stuff on a carrier in VA. You may get a "dream sheet", but sometimes you make the choices by the location(where in this world do you want to be) not the job/ship/shore.

05-09-2012, 01:59 PM	#3
NAtomS Newbie Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 17 Rep Power: 0	Dont worry ETs arent THAT bad. Me being a FC or course im a little bias, but ETs still have some cool things you can do. I have a friend that got accepted into Devgroup( i think that was the name) and he basically works with the Seals. He had to go to dive school and do all the things pre buds do. You can still go IA. ETs do have a higher probablity of getting shore duty but whether you get ET or FC im sure youll be happy.