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For Ermi Roos - Pre- NEC Graphs

Sporting a petty officer's chevron on your sleeve at 18 IS very impressive, John. I would have thought that at age 18 you had just enough time to learn marching and knot tying.
 
Yes Ermi, I enlisted when I was 17. After boot camp I attended Aviation Electronics Technician School (Class A) in Millington, TN. This was a 20 week, 8 hours per day course in basic electronics, soldering, the use of test equipment and troubleshooting. The meat and potatoes covered Ohms and Kirchoff, basic circuits, transmitters and receivers, radar and timing circuits, vacuum tubes and lightly on transistors. Then I was in the the AFTA program's initial start-up. (Advanced First Term Avionics) This was an intense 26 week course that nearly kicked my butt (but) I made it. So in all I had 46 weeks of schooling before I arrived at my next duty station in Albany, Ga. There were several "C" schools I went to that specialized on specific gear.

I have been involved in electronics basically my entire adult life. I owe the US Navy a lot. My bio is on QRZ.com
 
Thanks, John. I read your profile on QRZ.com with great interest. It is true that having a ham license can profoundly affect how your life progresses. There were RF projects that established the direction of my own career, which I was assigned mostly because I was a ham. Someone I know had been only a freshman EE student, but he also had a General Class ham license, and he was able to leverage these limited credentials to a career in technical support.
 
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