Career Path > Navy:Getting In
ET vs. ELT
scruffy:
"The day they got promoted to a "real" division officer job, we got them into the nuc lab and pantsed 'em"
we put their mattress in the freezer after we soaked in with water got several admonishments from the XO when he could keep from from laughing and you dont even want to know what we did to midshipmen
Roll Tide:
--- Quote from: latenuke on Nov 24, 2004, 06:26 --- is it better to be an MM, study real hard, do real well and then hope to get picked up as an ELT?
By better I mean more challenging, more interesting or varied shipboard duties, better job oppurtunities if/when I decide to leave the Navy?
Thanks in advance for any input anyone here has.
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To help get back to the point of this thread, I have included the original question.
My input is that you are better off with an IMA (tender, NSSF, TRF, LMLOP) RADCON tour in the middle of any of the options. You will have the opportunity to perform RADCON or Nuclear Repairs (maybe even both!) in a different environment than the sub. The CVN's have their own IMA, so you could get an assignment there but it wouldn't be my advice.
An EM / MM / ET with a RADCON tour is in good shape for transfer to commercial HP. Just make sure you are getting out soon afterwards, or you will get stuck in that billet again for your next shore duty!
darkmatter:
To the original question by latenuke, I was a ELT, so I'm slanted toward that way as a career choice.
A far as the dispute between scruffy and beer court. I see a Temporal Rift in their perspective. I date from the 70's in the Nuke Navy fast attack sub and we worked more like scruffy's description then beer court's lounge around sluggo lifestyle. (sorry beer court, that just the way I see it, no real malice intended)
Already Gone:
I don't know if I'd call it lounge-around sluggo lifestyle that I got to slack off ONLY when everybody else was, and had to carry the same M Div. load as all the other MM's before they let me do my primary duty. I didn't consider it a vacation that I spent most weeks in-port getting no sleep at all every third day and working from 0600 to 1900 the other two.
I wonder who was cleaning the ERLL bilges while scruffy was sitting in the sonar shack. On my boats that was the prerequisite to doing any RL Div work. I can't figure out why he had to be ELT and ERS at once when the ERS watch (a total waste of manpower except for startup and shutdown) was secured most of the time.
I didn't choose to be a MM or an ELT. I was simply told that I would be. At the time, it didn't really matter. But, anyone who is given a choice should not be biased by the opinion of this (predominantly HP/RP) forum. We all went one way, but that doesn't mean that it is the best way. After all, ET's "stood" most of their watches in a chair. Their uniforms didn't get too dirty. None of their equipment was under a half a foot of oily water, and didn't contain any dead marine creatures. When they get out, they can fix computers instead of surveying reactor cavities. The only civilian job that ELT "qualifies" you for is a job that any Navy nuke can get because essentially anyone who can operate a Masslinn mop is already on this career track.
mattrev:
--- Quote from: Beer Court on Dec 10, 2004, 07:21 ---I don't know if I'd call it lounge-around sluggo lifestyle that I got to slack off ONLY when everybody else was, and had to carry the same M Div. load as all the other MM's before they let me do my primary duty. I didn't consider it a vacation that I spent most weeks in-port getting no sleep at all every third day and working from 0600 to 1900 the other two.
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I know my schedule as ELT was a lot different than yours. No way we could get that much sleep in a day. We were up at 2300. Primary, source checks, morph add on the 00-06. Drills on the 06-12 (every day except Tues (field day), Sat & Sun), Training, surveys or quals on the 12-18. 18-23 was for sleep. Sometimes he could catch some extra sleep or a movie on sat or sunday if we weren't doing ORSE or TRE workups (the last half of every patrol).
I couldn't wait to get off ELT & stand an MO watch. Best time I had was standing the 00-06 EWS every night and running drills on the 06-12 (ships drill coordinator) my last 2 patrols.
Had to love that 8 section EDPO duty in port too. ;-)
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