The telecommunications field allows Sailors to work with a full spectrum of communications, mapping and navigation devices, and complex, classified coding and decoding machinery and computers.

The telecommunications field allows Sailors to work with a full spectrum of communications, mapping and navigation devices, and complex, classified coding and decoding machinery and computers.


Telecommunications

Job Overview:

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Classification:
√ Enlisted
Χ Officer
Available in:
√ Active Duty
√ Navy Reserve

A fleet of more than 300 ships, 4,000, aircraft, and 380,000 personnel demands a complex combination of communications and computer systems to keep the fleet functioning as one cohesive military unit. Welcome to the exhilarating and dynamic telecommunications field.

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Job Description:

Sailors in the telecommunications community maintain a full spectrum of communications, computer network and alarm systems; mapping and navigation devices; and complex, classified coding and decoding machinery and computers. Sailors in this field may even work in translating, interpreting, and transcribing foreign-language communications data.

What Will You Do?

As part of this occupational specialty, you may:

  • Work with classified data and information
  • Install, maintain, and repair communication systems within ships and shore-based facilities
  • Maintain and operate TV systems
  • Install telephones and other communications circuits, boxes, switchboards, and bell-buzzer systems
  • Prepare and interpret blueprints, wiring diagrams, and sketches
  • Maintain and repair navigation equipment and plotters
  • Work as a computer systems analyst, systems or software programmer, or computer network technician

Skills and Training

Fields in telecommunications in the Navy offer a great opportunity to get hands-on experience operating vital communications and navigation equipment. Extensive training in solid-state electronic circuitry, electricity, and applied mathematics may also be available. Advancements in pay grades take place after requirements are fulfilled.

Your training may also prepare you for a future career as a(n):

  • Electrician
  • Station Installer and Repair Person
  • Central Office Repair Supervisor
  • Electromechanical Technician
  • Computer Programmer

Earn College Credits

Most of the training in the telecommunications field directly translates to credit at colleges and universities. Continued college education may also be available through the Navy College Program and tuition assistance.

Career Outlook

Telecommunication systems in today’s world are so commonplace that we often take for granted the incredibly advanced technologies required to operate them. Your knowledge of these technologies will allow you to accelerate your life in a career field that is part of the fiber of our lives and the future of human communication.