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Mr. Luddite

On 12/3/2013 9:02 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:14:05 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

There were many Navy LDOs in the electronics fields mainly because the
enlisted ET schools that they graduated from were so good. For purposes
of the Navy they made better division officers than a university grad
with a electronics related degree who then joined and received a
commission in the Navy.

More malleable, less likely to question authority, know how to spitshine
shoes and march in them.

Again your overpriced education has failed you. They don't have a lot
of that spit shine crap in a Navy electronics school, certainly
nothing like an academy or even a gung ho ROTC unit.

They are giving you knowledge at a much faster tempo that you got in
college and there were consequences for failure.
They don't waste a lot of time with the Gomer Pyle stuff

It has been awhile but I attended both branches of the old Navy "ET"
school (both the communications branch and the radar branch). For a
while I was one of a few that were both an "ETN" and an "ETR" at the
same time. I also took many courses at civilian colleges and
universities while in the Navy and after I left military service.

The Navy ET school typically covered a particular subject in two - three
weeks that the university curriculum would cover in a semester. The Navy
school also often covered the material in more depth. It is (or was) a
very intense but efficient method of teaching electronic circuit
design, function and troubleshooting techniques down to the component
level.

Not to brag but the college and university courses I took over the years
that were electronics related were a breeze for me thanks to the Navy
schools. I had more trouble with Accounting II.