Has anyone used COMM training received from the USMC and expanded into the civilian sector with it? As a radio operator, I was offered a dispatching job for the Maine State Police one time but turned it down because I was in Aviation Maintenance training at the time. All I did was send a resume and a copy of my Field Radio Operator USMC certificate school completion. That was the only time this training could have made a difference in me getting a job. Anyone out there utilize their training from the Corps in Comm to current work?

Went straight from USMC to work for OCTEL installing voice messaging servers/ unified messaging, learned pbx and cisco ICM. Worked as field tech, tier 2/tier 3 and management for Global NOC for Avaya.

Yes I'd say it did me right

I'm a mechanic right now, but I'm pretty far ahead of everyone else when it comes to electrical problems. Nobody else in the shop can troubleshoot worth a crap or even think about component level repairs.

So yup. It helped me quite a bit everyday.

Not to mention having some work ethic drilled into my head. I'm the only one on time in the mornings, and the only one that doesn't cry about working 20 minutes later.

I was a 2811 Telephone Teletype Repairman back in 67-70. Speny my last 9 months at Base Telephone on Oki, went to work for BellSouth after the Corps & spent 25 years. Started out installing & repairing phones / lines.

It got me my first job in 1975 after leaving the Corps. I was a 2811/2818/2815..telephone-teletype-crypto repairman. Hired as a field service engineer by a scientific instrument company. Did repair for ten years then moved into sales and love it.

I was a 5931 counter mortar radar tech, Jan 1969 I was in Viet-Nam H&S 2/3 3RD MarDiv. During this time I worked on PRC 25, PRC 47 and did many misc jobs including assisting wiremen by climbing poles. It was great I learned many things and when I went into the civilian world I had my selection of electronics technician jobs, I eventually retired from a major computer company as a Field Service Engineer and I can honestly say that due to the electronics training and experience from USMC I had opportunities that greatly benefitted me. Believe it or not when you leave the Corps you have a displine and maturity that exceeds your peers and that will carry you far in civilian life. Without question the Communication and Electronics training was a tremendous boost for me in civilian life.

Roger that. I was a 2542 and lat moved to 4066 Computer Nerd and I have been a Telecomm/IT Manager for almost 10 years since I left the Corps. Jeez come to think of it I don't really know how to do anything else and get paid the same.

No.

Yep!

Yes, After 2841 School I went to work for Lucent Technologies. I heve been in the technical field ever since.

I was a RO as well as a 2532 and it never really helped me land a job on the outside.

If you were a tech of somekind, I would think it would.

If you are a wiredawg, I really don't think it would.

Then again, cable companies will hire just about anyone with a truck and a clean record.

What helped me in civilian life was the GI Bill. Use your benefits. When I was going to school it was only a few hundred a month. Now it's around a thousand or so. Get yourself a roommate and a part-time job at a pub, and you'll be livin pretty good for a college kid.

Also, college chicks dig tattoos and guys with seas stories if you need any more incentive for education!

I was a wiredawg and cross trained as a radio operator. My miltary experience got me where I am today at the NYSE Progamming Hardware and software for digital trading systems...OHHRAHHH

I was an RO back in 69-70, spent time in country, got all that RF stuff straight in my head then went on to work communications contracts around the world. Back in the States I have been in the cellular world since it's conception. Always working on/with the cutting edge of technology has been great. Yea it's been a real help, once you get your foot in the door put your shoulder to it!

Though not a Marine vet I am a USAF vet. In 1980 I was a 361x0 (cable & antenna specialist). I served 4 years in this field.
I am still doing this after almost 25 years, and co-owner of a tower installation/maintenance company based in Northern, NV.
After I seperated in '84 I went on to maintain various AM/FM & TV broadcast antennas & towers then the cellular birth of the mid to late '80's started and it's been crazy ever since.

I actually tried to get into that after I got out, but I moved to NM where they only wanted people with years and years of experience with towers. I was a microwave radio tech, but ended up turning into a mechanic.

I was a radio operator and as of now, I am in an unrelated job, but I may move uo to telecom in the future.

I was a 2531 while in the Corps and now work as a FireFighter/EMT.

Alot of the job is spent communicating via radio and getting info transferred quickly and efficiently in sometimes chaotic and stressfull situations.

I guess being a comm guy helps me with that but none of the other prior service guys and gals I work with were comm dawgs and they get by on the radios just fine. Although every now and then they step all over each other's transmissions, or you get hot mikes or they key the mic for like way to long giving these God awfully long winded reports when crisp concise radio transmissions would do fine.

Sometimes I just shake my head and chuckle a little bit at the radio discipline and I have been know to break in with a "BEADWINDOW BEADWINDOW BEADWINDOW" call when someone uses a Px's name over the air.

-Matt

In the direct sense no. However, the skills learned to trouble shoot a comm problem, I use to trouble shoot in my current job. The process of course is modified.

Semper Fidelis
Duckbo

No its harder than hell to even find something even remotely similar in the area where i live. This place is just about 10 years behind in technology.

Rog that Marine!! I was a 2841 back in the 70's and I am doing the same thing in civilian live....fixing comm equipment!