MACS-2: These are the Marines that I will be working with while deployed.
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I'm glad you started posting again. I responded to some of your original posts 2 years ago. I'm now a Navy AC, mostly because of you. Thank you for your encouragement. -AC3 Goetsch
Yeah this is a great site. I found it when I came back from MEPS in Charlotte, NC back in November '08. I ship this month and after RTC I'll in Pensacola for my AC rating.
Hey Colin! So I totally found your blog at random.. Anyways, I hope things are going well in Afghanistan. Im in Iraq until April 2010. Enjoy your time in the sandbox. Take care and be safe!
I am 16 years old and i know that i want to be an atc in the navy my dad was in the navy and he says it would be good for me. to go in and go through my enlisting and finish college while in the navy.but i want to know if when i get out of the navy if it is easy to find an air traffic control job?
I'll try to answer your main question: "is it easy to find a job?"
There are many different ATC jobs. The most common route is the FAA. That's what I'm doing and I received a job offer within 6 months of getting out of the Navy. However, it may take up to a year or more before I actually start working. Other options are Department of Defense (working at a military base as a civilian), contract towers (control towers operated by a private company under the direction of the FAA), or overseas military contract jobs (working for a private company in a combat zone under direction of the US military). It's not always a quick process, but most people I know who have tried to get ATC jobs are now working as ATCs. The money is good and I enjoy my job.
If you have more questions, contact me through one of the links on the blog homepage (email or facebook will be fastest). Thanks for reading.
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I'm glad you started posting again. I responded to some of your original posts 2 years ago. I'm now a Navy AC, mostly because of you. Thank you for your encouragement.
-AC3 Goetsch
Yeah this is a great site. I found it when I came back from MEPS in Charlotte, NC back in November '08. I ship this month and after RTC I'll in Pensacola for my AC rating.
how do you get lost on the internet and run into this blog. that i dont know but it happened. ---TP
Hey Colin!
So I totally found your blog at random.. Anyways, I hope things are going well in Afghanistan. Im in Iraq until April 2010. Enjoy your time in the sandbox. Take care and be safe!
AC3 Picklesimer
Wow, great to see people are reading and benefitting from these posts. Maybe I should keep going, haha.
I am 16 years old and i know that i want to be an atc in the navy my dad was in the navy and he says it would be good for me. to go in and go through my enlisting and finish college while in the navy.but i want to know if when i get out of the navy if it is easy to find an air traffic control job?
Anonymous,
I'll try to answer your main question: "is it easy to find a job?"
There are many different ATC jobs. The most common route is the FAA. That's what I'm doing and I received a job offer within 6 months of getting out of the Navy. However, it may take up to a year or more before I actually start working. Other options are Department of Defense (working at a military base as a civilian), contract towers (control towers operated by a private company under the direction of the FAA), or overseas military contract jobs (working for a private company in a combat zone under direction of the US military). It's not always a quick process, but most people I know who have tried to get ATC jobs are now working as ATCs. The money is good and I enjoy my job.
If you have more questions, contact me through one of the links on the blog homepage (email or facebook will be fastest). Thanks for reading.
Colin
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