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I am currently an REA on submarines and after 25 years, I have decided to leave and pursue a career as an ETO. If any submariners are out there, you know what I do, if your an ex-skimmer (sorry about the terminology!), I'm a CEW Artificer (CPO WEA) or CPOET(WESM) that gets a whole lot more than comms and electronic warfare and if I'm talking double dutch, I fix a lot of stuff on submarines including all communications from VLF to EHF (sat comms) and internal communication systems, electronic warfare (like a wide band receivers), telephone systems, radars, periscopes, masts, navigation equipment, computers..............you name it, we get it all! The usual response for a piece of kit going defective when no one knows who's it is, is get the REA! Anyway, I have applied to 'a company' (I'm not sure about any protocol in the forums when talking about the different employers, so I won't say just yet!) as a 2ETO and am looking for any advice, gems of information and basically anything you can think of that I can do to make myself more attractive (plastic surgery is too expensive) to my hopefully, future employer and any interview tips. The first recomendation I received from an ex-submariner was, even though I know an REA can do the 1ETO job, go in as a 2ETO until you learn the politics of the company, and I have followed this.
As a service leaver, I do have time and grants available to assist me in completing courses that may assist me in my future career but haven't found any I really fancy, so if you would like to propose one, I will gladly look! I know a few people have told me 'the company will pay', but if I don't use it, I will lose it! You can see my full profile on LinkedIn here.
Hope to hear from someone or anyone soon!!!
Andy C
Ohh, I have also read all the old posts in the forum and gleamed quite a lot form there!!!
I am currently an REA on submarines and after 25 years, I have decided to leave and pursue a career as an ETO. If any submariners are out there, you know what I do, if your an ex-skimmer (sorry about the terminology!), I'm a CEW Artificer (CPO WEA) or CPOET(WESM) that gets a whole lot more than comms and electronic warfare and if I'm talking double dutch, I fix a lot of stuff on submarines including all communications from VLF to EHF (sat comms) and internal communication systems, electronic warfare (like a wide band receivers), telephone systems, radars, periscopes, masts, navigation equipment, computers..............you name it, we get it all! The usual response for a piece of kit going defective when no one knows who's it is, is get the REA! Anyway, I have applied to 'a company' (I'm not sure about any protocol in the forums when talking about the different employers, so I won't say just yet!) as a 2ETO and am looking for any advice, gems of information and basically anything you can think of that I can do to make myself more attractive (plastic surgery is too expensive) to my hopefully, future employer and any interview tips. The first recomendation I received from an ex-submariner was, even though I know an REA can do the 1ETO job, go in as a 2ETO until you learn the politics of the company, and I have followed this.
As a service leaver, I do have time and grants available to assist me in completing courses that may assist me in my future career but haven't found any I really fancy, so if you would like to propose one, I will gladly look! I know a few people have told me 'the company will pay', but if I don't use it, I will lose it! You can see my full profile on LinkedIn here.
Hope to hear from someone or anyone soon!!!
Andy C
Ohh, I have also read all the old posts in the forum and gleamed quite a lot form there!!!
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