Fire control technician

Fire control technician
	Rating insignia
Issued by	United States Navy
Type	Enlisted rating
Abbreviation	FT
Specialty	Weapons / combat control systems

Fire control technician (abbreviated as FT) is a United States Navy occupational rating.

Fire control technicians perform organizational and intermediate level maintenance on United States Navy submarines combat control systems and equipment, and associated test equipment including tactical computer systems and peripherals.[1]

The Fire Control Technician (FT) is responsible for all operational and administrative aspects of the submarines computer and control mechanisms used in weapons systems and related programs. You cannot enlist with a guarantee for this rating. You enlist in either AEF (Advanced Electronics Field) or SECF (Submarine Electronics and Computer Field). You are then assigned to be trained as an ETR (Electronics Technician Radio), ETNAV (Electronics Technician Navigation), FT (Fire Control Technician), or ST or STS (Sonar Technician or Sonar Technician Submarine, respectively). You may get your rating assigned randomly, by need.

Training and Qualifications

A-School (FT Pipeline)

Groton, CT-4 weeks (Basic Enlisted Submarine School)
Groton, CT-Self Paced (Apprentice Technical Training)
Groton, CT-4 weeks (Tactical Computer Network Operator)
Groton, CT-18 weeks (FT "A" School)

Some students may be selected for advanced training ("C-School,") prior to shipping to the fleet depending on what kind of submarine they are given orders to. If they are in the top 10% of "A" School class and have an average of 90 or above they can choose to sign on an extra year to their contract and be advanced from E-3 to E-4 in 6 months automatically.

ASVAB Score Requirement

AR+MK+EI+GS=222 or VE+AR+MK+MC=222

Required Qualifications

Must be U.S. Citizen
Must have normal color perception
Must have normal hearing.
Must have no record of conviction by civil court for any offense other than minor traffic.
Moral turpitude offenses are generally disqualifying.
No history of drug abuse.
This job prior to 2015 was closed to women.

Career Progression

Note: Advancement ( promotion ) opportunity and career progression are directly linked to a rating's manning level (i.e., personnel in undermanned ratings have greater promotion opportunity than those in overmanned ratings).

Sea/Shore Rotation for This Rating

First Sea Tour: 54 months
First Shore Tour: 36 months
Second Sea Tour: 54 months
Second Shore Tour: 36 months
Third Sea Tour: 36 months
Third Shore Tour: 36 months
Fourth Sea Tour: 36 months
Fourth Shore Tour: 36 months

Note: Sea tours and shore tours for sailors that have completed four sea tours will be 36 months at sea followed by 36 months ashore until retirement.

gollark: * potatoß

gollark: It has its own internal VM system. And runs on the lua vM.

gollark: (Good luck with that given the horrific dependency chain and auto update mechanisms)

gollark: Why don't you fork potatOS and add your own stuff?

gollark: Literally every user interaction is logged but I never read them because it would be really inconvenient to.

References

"Navy enlisted manpower and personnel classifications". Bureau of Naval Personnel. US Navy. Archived from the original on 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2007-01-11.

http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/career/enlistedcareeradmin/Pages/default1.aspx http://usmilitary.about.com/od/enlistedjob1/a/ft.htm

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[HIST-1] "Navy enlisted manpower and personnel classifications". Bureau of Naval Personnel. US Navy. Archived from the original on 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2007-01-11.