What job would you recommend in the navy Jow Forums?

That's an awful job

It's an awful job, but it is pretty much the only job you can go into as enlisted and come out with a great paying civie job

I don't plan to make my navy job into my career

What about computers and shit?

Pecker checker

That's a perk given to all senior enlisted

doing computer shit in the military will guarantee you a top secret clearance and a DoD job after you leave, so if you want that then the navy is your best bet

if you just want a computer job, learn on your own, if you're into sysadmin work start reading about that, if you're into programming pick up a book on python or c++, experience will get you farther than a bunch of navy tattoos and a love of men

Why not just get a boring Quota Job?

CTN or really any CT rate

What do you want from the Navy?
Travel? GI Bill? Skills? Action and adventure? 3 squres and a place to sleep? Free meal at Applebee's on veterans day without ever being in harm's way?
Navy can get you any of those things but not necessarily all
choose your rate, choose your fate

I'd like to travel, and learn a language of my choosing, if possible. Might be kinda picky, but anything involving that is fine by me

...oh shit bruh, get ready to study your ass off (unless you're already fluent in whatever they give you)

Would you choose Chinese Russian or Arabic?

CTI senpai

I'm already studying a language. How much power of negotiation do I have when signing a contract?
No to all three.

If it's Japanese just give up now you weeb, the Japanese all speak English anyway

It was actually [spoiler] French [/spoiler]

He wants the government to pay for his girl hormones.

Not him, but I already have a bachelor's degree in Chinese (as well as anime language). Wat do?

Not OP but I have a question if I already know decent Russian (since my family is from there), and I'm pretty sure with a couple of months of studying I could become basically fluent, in what branches and MOSes will that give me an advantage?

We need a separate board for milfags.

CTI
You do code breaking and translating, need to be able to get top secret clearance.

They will use your experience learning languages to demonstrate that you are capable at it then they will teach you Arabic and farsea(?), Good news is after learning those other 2 you'll be proficient in all French languages

CT rates are pretty good, on a ship and on land you are in dark air-conditioned spaces with access strictly limited so you don't get surprise visits from assholes, no one but your own leadership knows what you do so you get in trouble for dumb shit less

>Good news is after learning those other 2 you'll be proficient in all French languages

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Do code breaking and translating present good career opportunites after service?

Naval Aviator

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I'm gonna go for CT, but if I can't do that I'm honestly pretty interested in MC. But, I'll really take whatever job they offer I just want to serve.

jobs post navy for ITs, ETs, FCs, etc. pay well, not great like nuke field jobs.

First off, whether you're enlisted or officer go aviation. much more laid back than surface navy.

enlisted: avoid maintenance rates of any kind. try and go for AZ which is aviation records and logbooks basically clerks. also like some user earlier said go AW, AWR or AWS if you're in decent shape. they are enlisted aircrew rates so you'll be flying, get out of shit jobs etc.

officer: pilot or intel officer.

t. former navy aviation structural mechanic.

>No to all three.
then you aren't interested in learning a language the navy needs, so the navy won't waste money on you.

That's fine. I'll pick a different career than language then.

>but if I can't do that I'm honestly pretty interested in MC.

if you're gonna do that don't fuck around in A school. MC A has a shockingly high attrition rate, and if you flunk out you go needs of the navy.

>CT rates are pretty good, on a ship and on land you are in dark air-conditioned spaces with access strictly limited so you don't get surprise visits from assholes

unless you're a CTT, in which case you're in combat which just means you get a buzzer before the asshole visits.

CTI doesn't lead directly to a job but never looks bad to have multiple fluencys on your resume.
If your really into computers CTR are naval trained hackers, that'll transition to a job really well but it's mostly land based so you won't get much travel out of it

Also if I do pass the top secret clearance, what will that mean for me in the long run? Will I not be able to visit certain countries, higher probability of kidnapping, and things like that?

Corpsmen

>CTR
>hacker
no.

Plus you will basically be a Marine and not a fag.

>ignoring CT rates
>ignoring CTN for computer shit
smdh
CTN is easy fucking money without the restrictions of being nuke. Not only will you get a clearance, but opportunities for certs and fast promotions, a win/win whether you stay or go.

No, just means that if you have need to know you can view top secret info
It's not something that you get labled with to the outside world, just means you passed an FBI background check with interviews and possible lie detector

>what will that mean for me in the long run?

you'll have to avoid doing things which will make you loose your clearance

>Will I not be able to visit certain countries

you won't be able to visit certain countries regardless of your clearance while in the navy.

>higher probability of kidnapping

I mean, yeah? not really. you have a 1.1% chance of being kidnapped as opposed to a 1% chance, if that? there are hundreds of people with TS/SCI clearances on the ships in Norfolk, and as far as I know none of them have ever been kidnapped for what they know.

Oh, was thinking CTN because they do network security stuff

If you have a TS Clearance you're probably in a job where you can't go to certain countries, actually.
the obvious ones like china, iran, and russia are a big fat no, but there are others depending on your line of work. Regardless you need approval, which is easy to get for non-shit countries.
Otherwise it's pretty normal stuff.

>CTN
>Network security
they're pretty broad and do a lot more than that. why are you trying to talk about stuff you have no clue on?

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Depends on which path they take, they can accompany Marines and be badasses or they can be on a carrier babying a lieutenant when she's having a painful period

Sorry I wasn't clear enough, I meant for those questions to be applied AFTER service. I mean, higher chance of kidnapping because of classified info, not able to visit certain countries for fear of defection, etc.

not him, but what do CTNs do generally? I leave in October for CTN

>>Disclaimer, I was a sonar tech on a destroyer but this was the job everyone who had no experience doing this said they wished they did. Never actually talked to an AW

Just replace AW with every other job I talk about

analyze things.
hope you don't like going on boats, cuz you wont for awhile, if ever. I also hope you like computers because you're going to be looking at a lot of data, but what data that is no one can say until you roll up to your assignment. Different folks do different stuff. Could be as simple as pcaps.

>I mean, higher chance of kidnapping because of classified info

same answer. if the likelihood changes it's nearly imperceptible. no one is gonna come after you.

>not able to visit certain countries for fear of defection

the government can't restrict your travel if you don't work for them.

>etc.

the only thing you've got to worry about is if you intend to share what you learned while in. if you do the US will take legal action against you.

Well if information gets out then they are going to take a look at who had access to it and find the leak, but there's no restrictions on your life just because you had the clearance.
Like I said you need to have a "need to know" to be shown secret documents, it's not like you get your clearance and can go find out every government secret just out of curiosity

why tf would you have classified stuff after service and be in a foreign place with it?
unless you're in a shitty country that will kidnap you for being american in the first place, you're gonna be ok.

Ok thanks then

The marines

I'm a massive fucking weeb and want a Japanese based job in the military.

Marines are in Okinawa and the Navy is in Yokosuka I think.

based user

Yokosuka and Sasebo both have naval bases

There's no Japanese based job, get a ship based job, do the best in your new school and maybe they'll listen to your location preference based on needs of the navy

Also Japanese based boats are at sea most of the time, don't expect to actually be in Japan more than a month or 2 a year

If you join the Marines and would like to go to Japan, they'll send you in a heartbeat.
Why? Because it fucking sucks being a Marine in Japan. It's like being a Marine anywhere else except when someone fucks up (regular occurrence) you feel the pain too! :D

It's more about the clearance for CT I'm worried about.

k, you still have to have a secret for MC

oh

Admiral.

Unless you regularly fuck, gamble, and go bankrupt with some ruskie wench, you probably don't have much to worry about as far as a clearance goes.

Go CT and get on a fucking ship. None of this shore bull-shit. Get warfare qualified and ID qual'd. Volunteer for VBSS. Fuck bitches. Make sure you cross-train and understand comms and you can actually get to do some high-speed shit if you go to Damneck, etc.

Sign up for every god damn school you can go to. Including Ferrier. Especially Ferrier.

Former druggie, but no record. Just worried they're gonna interview the wrong people.

Paranoia, I'm sure.

>warfare qualified
Why?

>it's an awful job, but it is pretty much the only job you can go into as enlisted and come out with a great paying civie job
I'm not him, or military at all, but what kind of jobs does being on a nuke sub translate to?

Can’t go to war without your permit lad.

Nuclear power station operator
Doesn't sound glamourous but it'll pay 6 figures straight out of the Navy

Quartermaster. Great skill that you can use to get into a great career on the outside

No. I wasnt a nuke and have a car now paying pretty well.
Checkmate Nukes

>marine
>not a fag
This is not correct

Don't know if it's been said already, but go hospital corpsman if you can. It's a respectable rate and right now they have a $10k enlistment bonus for it. After my four years and seeing all the different rates, that's what I'd pick if I could go back, even without an enlistment bonus.

I'd also look into Seabees. I've only ever known one Seabee and he wasn't crazy about his job, but when he "deployed" it was 6 months in Japan, so how bad can it really be?

This. My old man worked nuclear power his whole life. The hours are hell, but you make a lot of money.

Hm is not a respected rate and seabees are literally retarted.

You can make money in much less stressful ways

Equipment operator ir reactor operator/senior reactor operator at a plant.

And that's staying in the nuclear house.

Working on coolant systems nets jobs working industrial HVAC, data network centers for amazon, facebook, and google.

Then there's the maintenance side of things, working non-nuke propulsion systems for ships as a civie or being the maintenance manager at a colca cola factory.

Piping and pump work gets jobs at refineries and water treatment.

Chemical control work gets jobs at chem plants and breweries.

And Qualty Assurance can get you anything from an inspector for ferrarri to standards enforcement at Hormel.

Not to mention straight lab work for 3M, Honeywell, etc.

Then there's teaching people on all these systems with Master Training Specialist.

The sky is the limit if you can handle the stress and toxic work environment.

I think you're the "retart". HMs are good people.

>MC A has a shockingly high attrition rate
It’s not terribly hard. There’s just a lot of rules here and we all just got in trouble. Most of the people I’ve seen get kicked out is for fucking up at the detachment, not because they failed the school work.

>if you flunk out you go needs of the navy.
The one guy I know who did flunk out for failing was given a choice of some other decent rates.

I'm in Sasebo right now and this is not true at all lol.

HM's are literally shitter repairmen.

If you have computer or language skills, go a CT rating for cush job and good money with fast advancement. Some locations could suck balls (Alice Springs), others can land you augmenting Aviation Squadrons and being in the desert, or you could just end up somewhere state side.

Aviation is the more "relaxed" side of the navy but, you still run a good gambit of ending up on a boat depending what platform you get put on.

>HM's are literally shitter repairmen
Lol what? I think you're confusing it with HT buddy. Two totally different things. Do you even Navy?

Hm is as low as Ma

If you ever want to volunteer for extra schools/certs and other shit like that then having your warfare quals g2g shows that you are ready, motivated and all that Jazz. Not to mention it can put you over the top for Evals if it comes down to it which largely affects your chances of making rank. If you care about that stuff that is.

I got tri qualed in less than a year and shot up to E5 breddy fast in my first command. I never got turned down for any special shit I wanted to go do. Conversely there was this dude who almost got his orders pulled and generally shat on for failing to qualify in his primary warfare in 3 years time...

Let’s be fair. Both Rates can be good if you’re able to make a plan and excel in your peer group. If you’re high speed then you can go FMF as a corpsman or get a good NEC like K9 handler for MA. Obviously there’s good prospects in the first responder community. Very easy to get into Fed Law enforcement from MA work. Most HMs I know that like their job go on to do EMT work civvy side or commission through one of the various Nurse/Medical Corps routes.

I’ve seen my share of stellar and shitty folk from both rates, just comes down to the person.

Be a corpsman. They now get a $10k enlistment bonus because it is undermanned apparently. Though as a corpsman myself, it's funny that they are having issues with trying to keep lower enlisted sailors in but instead of giving that money to current junior corpsman for reenlistment, they are giving it to boots. Really shows how much the upper ups have their heads up their asses.

When I joined back in 2012 HM was one of the rates I wanted most. It wasn't available at the time I went to meps, and since I was impatient and stupid I went in undes. I spent 2 years putting in applications for any rate that wasn't BM, CS, LS, OS, or other equally shitty jobs, and I always put in for HM when I could, but I ended up getting ABH (I thought it would be better than it was). It kind of pisses me off now that HM has a $10k bonus AND undes airman is $10k too like fuck me right?

It shows how incompetent the navy is. There are a lot of disgruntled junior sailors in the HM rating because making rank is difficult and there is no real incentive in being in the navy anymore after 5 years. But the navy NEEDS these junior sailors to stay in but instead of giving these bonuses to current enlisted corpsman, they give it to fucking civvies who probably don't even know what the corpsman rating really entails because their recruiter is a fucking ship or Aviation rate that just think all we do is give out motrin and plug people.

FMF corpsman

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