Enlistees are taught the fundamentals of this rating through on-the-job training or formal Navy schooling. Advanced technical and operational training is available in this rating during later stages of career development.
Great Lakes, IL --115 calendar days
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Does that mean after Navy BT; you dont go straight to the Great Lakes "A" School, but you go to your station and get on-the-job training and the schooling is volunterary, or what does it mean?
2006-12-23 14:42:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
if you sign up for the Navy, make sure you are guaranteed an A school. if you have an A school, you will go to it right after boot camp. some rates only have an apprenticship school which is only a few weeks long and then you are off to the fleet where you will get your on job training. your A school is your formal training. the advaced technical training is your C school. at the end of A school you choose your next duty station. on the day you choose your duty station, the detailer comes to your class, and has certain ships, shore stations, and C schools to choose from. you get to choose your next station by your standing in class. if you are #1 in your class, you choose first, if you are #12, your choice isn't going to be too good.
2006-12-23 14:51:41 · answer #1 · answered by Smith Jerrod 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ok, you get OJT after A-school. Depending on your rating. Not all ratings are in Great Lakes I believe that HM's and a couple of other ratings are still there as well. Schooling is never voluntary. Even un-designated rates go to a 2 weeks school.
2006-12-23 14:52:04 · answer #2 · answered by Amous 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what rating you picked. Most rates you go to A school. Some are at Great Lakes, but most of them are all over the country, depends on the rate. C school is a more specialized school that most rates go to later in their career. Some rates go, boot camp, a school, c school, then your first real command. Sometimes you can get a certain school in your orders, it all depends.
2006-12-23 17:33:16 · answer #3 · answered by redneckking_99 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you enlisted as. You enlist as a seaman recruit, usually, but you can also enlist as Hospital Corpsman, Dental Corpsman, Steward, and Musician, all in the recruit rank.
Whatever, you go to a general boot camp and then you go to a station, as an apprentice. If you enlisted as one of the non-seaman ratings, usually they specify you are to be assigned to the work related to that.
During boot camp, though, they test you several times for this and that, and if they find that you have aptitude for, say, sonar, they note that in your record and will make arrangements if they need sonar men.
Me? I enlisted in the Hospital Corps, and during boot camp, I was assigned to the base sick bay, and then I was sent to a ship, and sent to sick bay, and had on the job training while waiting for them to get around to sending me to the school I was entitled to go to, Hospital Class A school.
On the job training? "OK, now you got your shots, welcome aboard, and here is another guy come along, so now give him his shots, just like I gave you yours." Duh, OK...
"Ah, hah. There you are, this guy needs sewing up, no time like the present, go get a suture set...."
Well, then I got to go to Hospital Class A school. Where they taught me everything I already knew, except for the stuff I knew beyond what they taught.
There is no voluntary schooling - if you haven't signed up in one of the "special" categories, you can apply for rating other than seaman. Otherwise, you are a seaman apprentice, then a seaman. Seaman then I think go into bosun's mate rating, and there are other ratings like gunner's mate....
Generally, the Navy sends everybody to a school.
2006-12-23 15:00:43 · answer #4 · answered by sonyack 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means that once you graduate from BLT, you'll get a two week leave ( if you want ) and after that you will be sent to a battle station ( ship ) After graduation, you'll get your assignment, you'll go to your new base, and be taught and trained on the job on base by CPO's and above. You may be sent to a training school, but now - a - days its a seminar and you'll be more than likely taught on the seen.
2006-12-23 14:47:56 · answer #5 · answered by Jason M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey Meurte; im looking into Gunners Mate in either the Coast Guard or Navy; I gotta question for you. (Id email you but its not on your profile) Can I get the 'A' school put in my enlistment contract? And does that gurantee me that I'll be a Gunners Mate if thats what school I go to (And had the necessary ASVAB)? Email me if you can
--Thanks
2006-12-23 15:11:34 · answer #6 · answered by I Hate Liberals 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depending on the rating you're assigned to, you will either get an "A" school or be assigned directly to the fleet for OJT.
Nothing is voluntary once you sign up. You'll be told what to do.
2006-12-23 14:45:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
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