I've done two. Believe me, I was grateful to have some time at sea with the Navy before spending a year deployed with the Army! Get with your training officer when you get back and search the RIEP (Reserve Intelligence Employment Plan--every unit has one) for shipboard billets supporting exercises. If your unit isn't assigned one, you'll have to start networking with people in PAC or LANT units with frequent exercises. I'm really only familiar with PACFLT.
At one time NAVRESFOR also advertised various operations, etc., that needed specific officer designators and ranks as well as some specific skills - some would have entailed you getting underway. Those were on the private side of their web site, and you had to do some digging to find them.
Thanks Gents, I'll keep my eyes and ears open. I support the intel center of one of the COCOMs, so I'll have to go outside my unit's usual AT/ADT schedule to do this.
Originally posted by John_Marshall: Thanks Gents, I'll keep my eyes and ears open. I support the intel center of one of the COCOMs, so I'll have to go outside my unit's usual AT/ADT schedule to do this.
That will be challenging. The chief is right that opportunities are posted, but those generally aren't specifically for 1635s and it is very difficult to get approval for your command to do an AT outside of your low-density high-demand field. Network, network, network.
Ha-no worries Res016. I eat challenges and bureaucrats for breakfast. In this case, it will help that my command considers ATs at sea as important experiences vice distractions.
