AECF total wks in school?

[kate0116]

Thanks for the info, that was more helpful then my recruiter was...

[eihander]

Giving an update on the new AECF, -- June 2013

"A"
School is 9 weeks ET/FC (2 1/2 months)

"C"

FC Strand is 12 weeks (3 months)

ET Strand is 17 weeks (~4 months)

I just finished up my MEPS and on DEP until FEB2014. Wish it was sooner!

[navywife83]

Originally Posted by eihander

Giving an update on the new AECF, -- June 2013

"A"
School is 9 weeks ET/FC (2 1/2 months)

"C"

FC Strand is 12 weeks (3 months)

ET Strand is 17 weeks (~4 months)

I just finished up my MEPS and on DEP until FEB2014. Wish it was sooner!

This is somewhat incorrect.... My husband went through FC "A" school but cross rated before "C" school due to being on hold for 5 months waiting for orders.

A school was MUCH longer than 9 weeks....

He classed up March 2011 and completed all the training that is held in Great Lakes (ATT and A school) October 14 2011 then sat on hold until March 2012 when he decided to crossrate.

His friends that stayed in the rate eventually went on to their "C" schools in San Diego or VA - I cannot help with info on that though since my husband went on to be an ITS.

EDIT:
What you have here is the aprox ATT and FC/ET A school time frame

[calie89]

I am in FC "A" right now. FC "A" is 15 weeks. I can't really speak for ET "A" because I don't really talk to any of the ETs. They are on days and we are on nights.

ATT for FCs was 10 weeks and ETs have 11 weeks (I think). ATT is...terrible. If you have an AA, you will probably be bored out of your mind, like I was. I have a bachelors degree. The hardest part was how unbelievably slow we went.

But, as for C school, that depends on what NEC you get. Right now we are picking orders based on GPA in A school. The orders are coming in faster that they were earlier this year, but that fluctuates. There was a class that finished a couple of weeks ago that had orders when they graduated. There was also a class that graduated last week with no orders. I have 2 weeks left, still nor orders. However, of those that picked orders, they still don't leave for a while (September/October), unless they pick shore duty, which leaves within a few weeks of graduating.

Again, things change here very quickly, so by the time you get here, it may be different. But, this is how things are right now.

[Little Red]

That's so strange how a schools lengths can change so drastically in such a short time. When I swore in April 11 of this year they gave me a few job cards, one for AECF and then I asked for more detailed on each rating so the classifier gave me one of ET and FC. The job card for AECF was revised in 2008 said a school for FC was 12 weeks, and ET was 17 weeks. But on the individual ones which was revised in oct of 2012, says ET a school is 42 weeks, and FC a school is 20 weeks. I mean for an ET a time frame change like that can be very surprising lol

[still.motivated]

Yeah, when I got my rating card...sheet. I saw 9 weeks.. then like 12/17 weeks for whichever specific job they assign to you.
But when I was in my Dep meeting, there was a guy who just finished C school and he said quote "The schooling is really long, the only other job that may have longer schooling than us is the nuke kids and maybe a few others"

But he also had to wait like 6 months before he went to C School. So he just did some assistant teaching kind of stuff at Great Lakes. Overall.. after bootcamp.. it took him about a 1 - 1 1/2 years to get to FC.

[calie89]

I completed FC "A" on June 28, after arriving at TSC after bootcamp on November 21, 2012. This included a couple of weeks hold before I started ATT, Christmas stand down, and a week hold between ATT and A school.

My class just picked orders last week, and I picked SPY 1B. My class starts mid October, and it will be 8-10 months. Other NEC's have shorter, mine is one of the longer ones.