On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 8:50:47 AM UTC-4, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 9/7/16 8:41 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 9/6/2016 9:12 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 9/6/16 8:11 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 20:00:32 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:



Not if you got in...

I doubt you would get much more than the statistical guessing average
(~25%) on the ETST (a test that is a prereq for Navy electronics
training)


Why would I want Navy electronics training?


Not to worry. You wouldn't qualify for it anyway.



You mean, my soldering and assembling a half dozen Radio Shack kits
(from the Crown Street store) while I was in junior high and high
school, my ability to take completely apart and properly reassemble
outboard motors and lawnmower engines, and my A's and B's in algebra,
geometry, chemistry, calculus, and physics in high school wouldn't have
done it for me? Damn! Then I guess I would have had to go to college and
not join the navy. Drats!

Our company trains middle aged ladies with high school diplomas to be electronic assemblers in a few days. The kits you built are the equivalent of paint-by-number paintings. Your daddy's outboards that you may have torn down are a far cry from today's which require special tools and likely factory training to do what you claim.

You just don't get it. You may have taken algebra and physics, but the ability to apply them, along with electronic theory, to design and repair electronic circuits require *far* more of an understanding than that Radio Shack kit could even hint at. And to be honest, a good electronic technician has innate skills that just can't be taught, especially in a college environment. You can't teach a kid to ride a bike at a seminar, or a lecture.