Hello everyone, I am a SSG and I just reenlisted to reclass to 25P. I wanted to find out if anybody knows how the AIT is, and also as a SSG what would my day to day duties be like? Thank you all.
Posts: 49 | Location: Soon to be Arifjan, KU | Registered: 21 August 2007
If you have a signal background 25P school might make sense, and you might get a lot out of it. If you don't have a signal background the school is completely worthless until about 6 months after you get to your unit. So take good notes, because they won't make sense until you go back to them.
The things to take away from the school are the basics of setting up equipment, and signal flow. I don't think they stress signal flow nearly enough at the school, so if they glaze over it, try to dig a little deeper and take what you can out of it.. A monkey can program the equipment, but 80% of the job is understanding signal flow. That is which piece of equipment the signal travels to, and what that equipment does to the signal and why it needs to do it to the signal. When they get ridiculously in depth like breaking down what an ATM packet looks like its a waste of time, because they hire civillians to figure that stuff out. It would be good to know if you wanted a civillian career like that, but the problem is its too mind bottling to make sense of if you haven't worked in the signal world.
Anyway, thats my overview/rant because I got to my unit clueless of how to do my job or how to troubleshoot and the only thing I took away from school was equipment. And I know if I went back to 25P school today I would learn WAY more this time around. Anyway, have fun with the signal thing, I had to leave it for something more exciting.
Similar question with 25U. I'm schedule to start my class on Sept. I'm an E5 with 4years in service. My question is the living condition and duty while your in AIT prior service.
1. Can I bring my POV? 2. whats the living condition? 3 what can i expect from the cadre? treatment? 4. time after class??? can I do whatever on my own time with care few? 5. Can i bring my laptop with internet?
Sorry, I know that most of my question can be answer on my briefing. but not for another 2 months, and i need to plan ASAP to include my family. thanks
1. Yes you can have your POV. 2. You will be staying in the MOS-T or permanent party barracks, they pretty much suck. 3. You will be an MOS-T, they will treat you like permanent party, with a few exceptions. You will be on student status. 4. Your time is your time. When not on staff duty or what not, you are pretty much left to your on devices. There will be no curfew. 5. Yes, you will have to pay for your internet servce in your room.
I just left there as Cadre and student. It will try your patience to say the least. Just learn what you can and school and stay out of trouble..its too easy. Hope this answered some of your questions.
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Posts: 78 | Location: Arifjan | Registered: 16 February 2007
thank you very much BultToLast, for your info. now, i got one last question- I might be having a foot surgery this end of April and might not leave me enough room to recover.
Can I report to school with a running profile? Do i have to take the PT test on that first week?
Originally posted by SgtGuapo: thank you very much BultToLast, for your info. now, i got one last question- I might be having a foot surgery this end of April and might not leave me enough room to recover.
Can I report to school with a running profile? Do i have to take the PT test on that first week?
You need to talk to your Career COunselor to see if your school date can be pushed back.
I was wondering I reclassed to 25B from 25Q and have a school date in July. I already attended 25Q BNCOC and am wondering if I will have attend 25B BNCOC in addition to my actual MOS school, if so can you attend them back to back and that would put me over the 20 week mark so could I bring my family? Any advice or knowledge would be great! Thanks
I recently reclassed from 25F to 25P and asked the same BNCOC question. I was told that a signal BNCOC is a signal BNCOC. I don't have any documentation for you, just some personal experience.
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Posts: 78 | Location: Arifjan | Registered: 16 February 2007
