Question by heidegger_001: How hard is to become an electronics technician in the navy?
I want to become one. Do they usually give you your first choice? Is electronics technician filled up?
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Answer by lunatic
Your Navy recruiter will administer an aptitude test which will show whether you meet the standards. If you do, you can be guaranteed a slot in the ET training program. However, if you fail training, you will then become “fair game” for any and all open jobs the Navy may need you for. Also, specialized training sometimes requires enlisting for additional time.
What do you think? Answer below!
First, I was not an ET. But I was in the Navy a quarter of a century.
If you took the ASVAB honestly, and without preparation, and if you qualified for ET, while it might not be a cake walk, you should do ok… that’s what the ASVAB is designed to do, as lunatic implies.
If you’re not really qualified… that is, if you took a lot of practice tests and the results on the ASVAB only indicate you’re ability to take the dumb test, then you may be able to do the job, but you might have difficulty doing it. If that’s the case you’re going to have to work ten times as hard as the guy who’s qualified to get the job done reasonably well. At the end of the day you’ll be exhausted. You won’t like the job, and you’ll be back here asking if you can change your rating,or how you can get out of the Navy. Or, you’ll get out after your contract is up. And you’ll blame the Navy.
But, if you’re not qualified, and you blow it, it’s like Lunatic said… you’ll be in the fleet and assigned to whatever rating they need at the time. I’d say that they’ll probably look at your ASVAB scores to see if you’re qualified for any other rating, but we know how indicative and accurate those scores will be.
When I enlisted, they didn’t have the means to “prepare” for the test. They administered it in Boot Camp. My rating selected me. While it wasn’t a bed or roses, had it been a terrible experience, I wouldn’t likely have stayed in for 25 years.
It changes every week.
You really dont know for sure until you are at A school.
When you take the ASVAB (aptitude test), you meet with the recruiter afterward and he’ll go over various rates (job specialties). He may try to steer you into another job with promises of big bonuses and blah blah blah, but stick by your guns and tell him you want to have guaranteed ET “A” School in your contract. Then you’re as good as in….don’t believe that they will change things on you while in boot camp.
Just remember that there are nuke ETs and regular ETs. Nuke ETs run the reactors, regular ETs get to do all the other stuff. If you don’t want to get stuck working in the reactor plants, then avoid the nuke program.