NAVY PERSONNEL COMMAND: 5720 Integrity Drive, Millington TN 38055-0000 Address Correspondence to: Attn: PERS-### or BUPERS-### This is an official U.S. Navy Website Need Career, Pay or Personnel help? It still sucks though. Acoustic operators listen to and look at the info from sonobuoys to find and track submarines. I was looking into becoming a reservist so I could do both Navy and college, and then maybe do a couple of years of active duty afterwards, however I have been seeing that reservist aircrewman are only able to get the AWF rate, and that this rate is being phased out. It was previously designated as aviation anti-submarine warfare operator. You're considered a Level 100 Operator upon graduation and this is where you're promoted to E4. To become an aircrewman, you'll need to sign an AIRC or AIRR contract. You need to be decently smart and in EXTREMELY good shape to be a swimmer. Press J to jump to the feed. Try and do what it takes to get to a P-8 squadron or a P-3C squadron. detailer contact list pers-401 – navy diver / seal / swcc / eod fax: 901-874-2716 rate email phone branch head pers401_admin.fct@navy.mil 901-874-3569 assistant branch head pers401_admin.fct@navy.mil 901-874-3865 administrative officer pers401_admin.fct@navy.mil 901-874-3622 seabee (e8-e9) cb89_detail.fct@navy.mil 901-874-3571 seabee (e7) cb7_detailer.fct@navy.mil 901-874-3559 Monday you'll have a 0500-1900 workday for a mission, Tuesday you'll bounce (touch and gos, like a pilot training flight) in the evening because you can't do a morning event because you landed late the day before. AWF, AWV, and AWO all go to the same FRS, VP-30 in Jacksonville, FL. Male sailors have different minimum standards for boot camp compared to females. Particularly the P-8 Poseidon. AWS A School: If you're a dry crewman or swimmer, doesn't matter. I swore in a few weeks ago with a job in aviation, not specifically aircrew but that is definitely something I want to do. This is actually the hardest part of the training and by far the most common place for people to fail out. You'll spend 12-18 months upgrading from level 100 to level 300, which is a fully qualified operator. Load masters are usually FTS (full time support, a reservist who works full time) or normal reservists who were prior active duty AWO/AWF/AWV. Pay the fuck attention though, if you get to FRS and don't know A-school information, you instructors will not be happy. If you every played a sport at a decently competitive level, this 4 weeks will be a cake walk. You'll almost certainly be an E5 within four years of enlisting, and less than three years is very common. Just want to throw in a reminder about your future outside of the Navy. AWSs are colloquially called "Sierras" for the same reason AWRs are "Romeos". New accessions accepted for AIRC and AIRR must be enlisted at pay grade E-1. But yet, the Navy counts my time with as sea duty (because of going on 6 month deployements). 1.2. AWRs serve primarily at HSM squadrons. Thanks u/HM_Gravy for calling me out. NAVY PERSONNEL COMMAND: 5720 Integrity Drive, Millington TN 38055-0000 Address Correspondence to: Attn: PERS-### or BUPERS-### This is an official U.S. Navy Website Need Career, Pay or Personnel help? But the problem is that you want to fly - correct? AWFs can also be Load masters or flight attendants on logistical aircraft, which is anything that starts with a C; C-40, C-130, etc. TLDR; There's a ton of info here, so if you don't feel like reading all of it and you're considering an AIRC contract, read just the AWO, NACCS, A-School, FRS, and Fleet portions. Although the new P-8 is not a prop but has enlisted aircrew. I'm a 2nd year uni student doing biology, I am considering joining the royal navy as an officer - thinking of warfare or something. We do various jobs from operating mission-related equipment, loading and unloading cargo, in-flight maintenance, assisting pilots as a flight engineer on older aircraft, or jumping out of helicopters to save drowning people in the middle of the ocean. That's great. So at the time, they gave guaranteed Aircrew contracts in exchange for 5 years. The Naval Aircrewman rating (known as Aviation Warfare Systems Operator or AW prior to 2008) is an enlisted rating of the US Navy. Step 1:Determine the points you earned for each activity. Yes, things are a bit different now. That's true for all aircrew ratings. Hey there! I was an AO but an Aircrewman as well. I got to constantly fly, go around the world, be on alert for special missions & more. You COULD get IFT on EP-3s I guess but that's probably not possible at this point. I've been to six continents. 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