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SURFACE WARFARE
Surface Warfare officers serve aboard many different
surface vessels like the DDG-51 Arleigh Burke class
destroyers and the CG-47 Ticonderoga class cruisers.
He/she will select his/her ship assignment prior to
commissioning and report soon afterward.
Upon arrival, the new ensign will be assigned as a
division officer in charge of approximately 10 personnel
and several administrative duties.
Ultimate goal of becoming qualified as a Surface Warfare
Officer while a division officer, which includes
standing watch at various watchstations throughout the
ship including Combat Information Center and the Bridge.
He/she will learn such subjects as navigational rules of
the road, communications, shiphandling, basic tactics,
and weapons systems.
Upon earning his/her Officer of the Deck qualification,
he/she will be sent to Surface Warfare Officers School
in Newport, RI for a three week finishing school.
Following completion of school, he/she will return to
his/her ship to finish qualifying as a Surface Warfare
Officer.
NUCLEAR SURFACE WARFARE
Some SWOs choose to take on additional responsibility
and train to be nuclear engineers on aircraft carriers.
During their senior year of college, candidates for
Surface Warfare Nuclear Propulsion Training must first
go to Washington, D.C. and be personally interviewed by
the Director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion. If
accepted into the program, they will follow a similar
path to conventional SWOs, except that their second sea
tour will be a 24 month division officer tour aboard a
nuclear powered aircraft carrier. During the first tour
aboard a conventional surface ship, they earn their
Surface Warfare Qualification. After the initial sea
tour, they attend the six month Naval Nuclear Power
School in Charleston, SC. Nuclear Power School is an
academic environment where students are instructed in
math, physics, chemistry and theory of reactor plant
design and operation. After Nuclear Power School, they
receive hands-on experience for six months at the
controls of an actual nuclear reactor at one of the two
Nuclear Power Training Units (also known as Prototypes).
Upon completion of Prototype, they go on to the 24 month
division officer's tour in the engineering plant of a
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
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SUBMARINE FORCE
Those assigned to the silent service begin by studying
Navy nuclear propulsion at Nuclear Power School in
Charleston, SC, for six months of schooling, followed by
six months of training at one of several nuclear reactor
prototype sites located throughout the country. You then
go to Navy Submarine School in New London, Conn., for
the 10-week submarine officers basic course. Your first
tour of duty with an attack or fleet ballistic missile
submarine lasts about 36 months.
In a nuclear submarine, junior officers lead divisions
of 10 to 20 men. You have responsibilities in a vital
area of operations such as engineering, weapons or
communications. You also stand watches and work to
qualify as engineering officer of the watch, diving
officer and officer of the deck -- all steps towards
earning the gold dolphins of a Navy submarine officer.
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AVAIATION (PILOT)
Learn skills that are necessary to land a
high-performance jet on board an aircraft carrier deck
pitching in the black of night or track a submarine
while flying low over stormy seas.
Naval Aviation requires a combination of talent and
dedication as well as academic and physical prowess.
After being selected for flight training, he/she will
attend Aviation Preflight Indoctrination (API) program
at Naval Air Station Pensacola. This course involves
academic training in aerodynamics, engineering, air
navigation, aviation physiology, and water survival, as
well as physically challenging practical applications of
physiology and water survival training.
After API, a Student Naval Aviator (SNA) will be sent to
Primary either in NAS Corpus Christi, TX or NAS Whiting
Field, FL to fly the T-34C Turbomentor, a single-engine
turboprop aircraft. Primary flight training includes the
basics of contact, instrument, formation, and aerobatic
flying.
Students will be selected for one of five pipelines
after Primary: Strike (tactical jets), E-2/C-2,
Maritime, E-6, or Rotary wing (helicopter).
After advanced and intermediate training, SNAs are
awarded their wings and proceed to specific Fleet
Readiness Squadrons for specialized training in their
aircraft.
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AVIATION (flight officer)
Student Naval Flight Officers (SNFOs) are selected for
flight training during their final year of school. They
are all volunteers.
SNFOs complete API alongside SNAs at NAS Pensacola, FL.
After API, SNFOs report to one of the NFO training
squadrons (VT-4 or VT-10) in Pensacola, FL for fourteen
weeks of intense training using the T-6A Texan II, a
single-engine turboprop aircraft. Students learn visual
flight rules and basic airmanship while accumulating an
average of twenty-two hours of flight time over eight
flights. SNFO’s then go through an extremely extensive
ground syllabus concentrating on navigation and aircraft
electronic systems before returning to the T-6A to
complete 14 flights focusing on Visual Navigation,
Instrument Navigation, and Low Levelss. Flight
simulators are also extensively used.
SNFOs then report to tactical navigation Intermediate
training in Pensacola, FL or the Air Force's joint
training squadron, 562nd Flight Training Squadron at
Randolph Air Force Base in Texas. Training will include
flight time in the T-6A and the T-1A Jayhawk (a multi-
place twin-engine jet used jointly by the Navy, USMC and
the Air Force).
If assigned to the 562nd FTS, SNFOs are awarded their
wings after twenty-two weeks and proceed to Fleet
Readiness Squadrons to train for navigator slots for the
P-3 Orion patrol plane, EP-3 Aries electronic
reconnaissance aircraft, C-130 transport, or E-6
strategic communications aircraft.
Those not selected to join the joint Air Force training
squadron will remain in Pensacola for fourteen weeks of
training. Upon completion, the new NFO will be selected
for one of three training pipelines: Strike (EA-6B
Prowler), Strike/Fighter (F/A-18F Super Hornet), or
Aviation Tactical Data System (E-2C Hawkeye). Those
selecting E-2C complete their training at VAW-120 in
Norfolk, VA where they wing after 6 months of training.
Those selecting Strike or Strike/Fighter report to VT-86
aboard NAS Pensacola for 4-6 months of intense training
in Radar Navigation, Strike Planning, and Low Level
Composite flights in both the T-39 Sabreliner and in the
T-2 Buckeye.
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SPECIAL WARFARE
The Special Warfare Officer concentrates on the development of skills in
the areas of unconventional warfare, counter-insurgency,
coastal and reverie interdiction, and tactical
intelligence collection.
To enter this career area, the officer must meet the
various physical prerequisites, volunteer for hazardous
duty, and request to be selected to receive Basic
Underwater Demolition / SEAL (BUDS) Training. BUDS
Training is a 6-month course that is both physically and
mentally demanding.
In BUDS Training officers receive instruction in the
planning and conduct of all phases and forms of Naval
Special Warfare, including the various forms of
hydrographic reconnaissance, land and underwater
demolitions, individual and crew served weapons, 12px
unit tactics, land reconnaissance, and various types of
SCUBA.
Successful completion of BUDS Training signifies that an
officer has attained the necessary skills to be assigned
to a SEAL or SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team and this initial
assignment marks the start of a SEAL officer's
professional development.
A first tour SEAL officer can expect to be assigned as
an assistant Platoon Commander, receiving advanced
instruction that will expand upon the basic skills
obtained during BUDS Training. Additional training in
new areas such as parachuting and SEAL Delivery Vehicle
Operations will also be included. A new SEAL officer
will also receive pre-deployment training prior to a
first deployment to a forward deployed Naval Special
Warfare Unit or with an Amphibious Ready Group.
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