Correspondence Course Navy
Q: I notice that several regulars in misc.survivalism always seem
interested in new books. Particularly those with contents of interest
to survivalists.
Well, a friend of mine was gathering up material he needed to show his
previous education and experience. Ex-Navy, like myself. And like
myself he'd not only had formal schooling in arious Nay classrooms,
plus work experience, he'd also done a number of Navy correspondence
courses.
A:Hey, if one wanted to advance into more senior ranks, one went after
every advantage possible before going before advancement selection
boards. I did it, and so did many others I knew ... we'd knock out at
least one, often 2 or 3 correspondence course in a 6 to 9 month
cruise. And not just the required one's for one's main job.
In any event, he'd taken some of the same correspondence courses as I,
and asked if I still had the books around, with the table of contents.
So he could accurately list the material covered.
I had some, not all. So I nosed around on the net and found out that
Uncle Sam's Navy has been nice enough to post some, in their entirety
at a web site.
http://www.advancement.cnet.navy.mil/
Now, they do not post anywhere near all of them. And this site does
not post a rather HUGE number of various manuals I could get my hands
on when I was in service, which are not correspondence courses (which
the Nay calls NRTC's, non-resident training courses). It'd take a
hell of a server to do that, and a lot of work and money. Plus
someone to go thru all and delete classified crap.
But there are a number posted and available to anyone to read and
download. They're in PDF format, by chapter.
As a hint, yah might just want to first view the 'Introduction' to
each, which contains the table of contents, note chapters you might be
interested in and only download those.
Keep in mind, these are fairly 'basic'. Meant to cover just the
basics of each subject. A sailor studying for Machinest Mate First,
for instance, would not just study that course book. If he's smart.
He'd read related stuff such as the Boiler Tech book, Damage
Controlman, a pile of NSTM's as tall as he was, etc. The coursebook
for his job is meant to outline the bare minimum he should know. If
that's ALL he knew, he'd be having trouble in front of a selection
board picking only a few out of many applicants.
With a number of selections, the titles of which might be pretty
meaningless to others not used to the terminology. On that page, one
would pick selection at the bottom of the middle column, Non-Resident
Training Courses (NRTCs) ... Navy lingo for correspondence courses.
That'll take you to a page with the letters
A: ..B...C...D... etc. Click on the alphabetical letter to see a list of courses available at that site in alphabetical order. Or, click below to go straight to the above page. http://www.advancement.cnet.navy.mil/navigation/cat_courses.htm Keep in mind that much of the