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In a word , NO you will have to choose, if you get to choose that is BEFORE you go to "A" school which you are going to go to be will most likely be determined before you go to RTC
Lead Mod Navy and Recconect America Forums catherine0830@msn.com Democracy will survive until the government figures out it can bribe the people with their own money.
Would i be able to choose between FC and ET after class A school?
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ETCPJ Member Posted Sun 05 October 2008 08:23 PM In a word , NO you will have to choose, if you get to choose that is BEFORE you go to "A" school which you are going to go to be will most likely be determined before you go to RTC
Im currently a rated FC in route to AEGIS Coomputer Networking C school in Dalhgren, VA. During the last week of bootcamp, you will get your written orders and it will show exactly what rating you will receive, you will have no choice to say in it, unless your NCS or a FTS then you will be a ET. but for your first 6 months on school you will be doing the same things minus a few key differences. Once You get to A school ET's will have to go through all the communication gear then to the radar systems, whereas FC skip comm's and go straight to Radar. Feel free to ask if you have any other questions regarding the AECF program
I read the link as best I can tell "AE/CF" is the modern day equivalent of what I went to in 1979 which was Basic Electricity and Electronics (BE/E) school no back then it was more than just ET's and FC's but including ANY rate that had an electrical or electronics background, including EM's IC's and GM's the only difference was how far you went.
Some time in the 80's I don't know exactly when "they" decided to seperate the rates and each rate had thee own "phase A" of "A school" how it worked for every rate I can't say but for ET's it was two parts half was in Orlando and was for all itents and purposes was BE/E school and the second part was taught in Great Lakes and was called AE and it more or less replaced what would have been what was the first two phases of the A school I went to, A-1 which was basically comm systems principles, oscilators, amplifiers power supplies, transmittes and recievers worked and A-2 which was basic RADAR theory synchro/servos, magnetrons, klystons other microwave devices, PPI/CRT theory.
This was followed by COMM or RADAR on actual equipment. When I graduated in june of 1980 the school was still "dual-tracked", you went to either COMM or RADAR that changed in OCT. to student going to both.
When I came back to teach ET school as an ETC in 89 it was still that way.
There were discussions about returning to a dual tacked school in order to make the school shorter. The way I remember it the 89-93 COMM and RADAR version of ET school was 17 weeks long.
I guess it proves that if you wait long enough that history will reapeat itself.
Damn straight. But remember we all glow in the dark. So it is never dark where I am. 
