"Califbill" wrote in message
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I also have both military electronics school USAF and civilian
electronics
school, NCR computers, and an EE university degree.i hired lots of Cal
and
Stanford EEs over the years. Most have no practical knowledge. Were
not
as good of engineers as those with practical training also. And Mr.
Luddite is correct. Navy techs were the best! Learned how to fix,
and
just not swap parts.

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The USAF had some good schools as well.

Back "then" virtually all the electronic gear aboard ship was analog
and most ran on vacuum tubes. The Navy ET's were taught theory,
circuit design, and troubleshooting methods to enable them to repair
equipment that they had never seen before. Sometimes I laugh because
back then current flow was negative to positive only because that's
the only way a tube could work in theory.

I am sure that with the advancement in electronics, the shift to solid
state and digital and the added complexity of the gear has caused
more specialization in the military electronics schools. But back
then, you were expected to fix anything.