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03-09-2008, 23:08
From the Navytimes!
Boost career, earn cash with these 15 hot jobs
By Mark D. Faram - Stafff writer
Posted : Sunday Mar 9, 2008 8:58:53 EDT
MILLINGTON, Tenn. — Looking to take a break from your rating, enhance your career or head for adventure? The Navy has 15 ways you can scratch that itch.
With a tour as short as eight months, you can collect special pays and benefits, learn skills and even boost your chances for advancement.
Those yearning for the familiar can try recruiting; officials often place sailors in or near their hometowns.
Others might want to head to the war zone, where everything from a short individual augmentee tour to a 36-month stint in riverine or coastal warfare is available.
“These jobs can be quite career-enhancing, giving sailors everything from greater advancement opportunity to the opportunity to take their leadership skills to the next level,” said Lt. Todd Oaks, head of the Shore Special Programs office at Navy Personnel Command in Millington, Tenn. “In many cases, you can get special training and extra pay as well, depending on the job — it can really round out a career.”
Even sailors hoping not to venture far from their ratings can take a tour on a precommissioning crew, in which a cadre of sailors help put a ship together — and net themselves the title of plankowner on commissioning day.
“It’s a challenge, but it is also career-enhancing, because you get to work with the latest and greatest technology your rating has to offer and get trained up on it as well,” said Senior Chief Gas Turbine Specialist (Electrical) (SW) Jason Hibbard, a Sea Special Programs detailer who did three precom tours. “You also get to know your ship from the bottom up as you watch it being built.”
Sailors ready for a one-tour career boost can find many of these in the online Career Information Management System alongside regular in-rating jobs. Others require special screening to be eligible, so call your detailer.
The next step? Picking just one.
Special shore tours
1 . Recruit division commander
Location: Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, Ill.
Pays and perks: $375 per month special duty assignment pay; $220 extra annual clothing allowance. Free dry cleaning.
Tour length: 36 months.
Who’s eligible: All ratings, E-5 through E-9. E-5 and E-6 sailors must have warfare qualifications and a minimum of six years in the Navy; E-5s need at least two years’ time in rate. Any hint of character, disciplinary or financial issues can disqualify. Sailors must be in shape and look good in uniform.
Training: 13 weeks of Recruit Division Commander School and instructor training at Great Lakes.
Why you want it: Though considered shore duty, RDC duty is as demanding as many sea tours, officials say. The payoff is a career boost: Over the last six years, 37 percent of E-6s on RDC duty have made chief petty officer; fleet-wide, average advancement has been 20 percent.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-954.htm
2. Recruiter
Location: Throughout the U.S.
Pays and perks: $450 per month Special duty assignment pay; some qualify for extra annual clothing allowance.
Tour length: 36 months.
Who’s eligible: All ratings, E-4 through E-8. Any character, disciplinary or financial issues can disqualify a sailor for duty. Sailors must be in shape and look good in uniform.
Training: Five weeks of Recruiting School at Pensacola, Fla.
Why you want it: Another tough shore tour, with monthly quotas to meet for field recruiters. This is the job for the outgoing, officials say, those who can talk to anyone and those who make friends easily. Those who excel in the job are eligible for meritorious advancement up to E-7. The ability to work alone is essential; many can find themselves in remote locations, where driving long distances is required. Viewed favorably by the chiefs’ board.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-964.htm
3. Navy expeditionary guard battalion
Location: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Pays and perks: Up to $850 assignment incentive pay, $225 imminent danger pay, $100 hardship duty pay as well as $250 family separation allowance. Choice of coast for next assignment.
Tour length: 12 months.
Who’s eligible: Masters-at-arms and sailors holding the 9545 Physical Security Specialist or the 9575 Corrections Specialist naval enlisted classifications. Interested sailors without these job codes can apply.
Training: Two weeks at Gulfport, Miss., and three weeks at Fort Lewis, Wash.
Why you want it: One of the toughest one-tour jobs in the Navy, working with hostile detainees at Gitmo. Guards screen detainees in medium and maximum security facilities. They can be involved in interrogation of prisoners.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-973.htm
4. Washington, D.C., area duty
Location: Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
Pays and perks: No extra cash, but many opportunities for college classes during off hours.
Tour length: Minimum 36 months.
Who’s eligible: Ratings most often needed are BU, CE, CTA, CTI, CTM, ET, IT, MC, OS, PS, SK, UT and YN.
Training: None.
Why you want it: Get an inside look at how the Navy runs on the staffs of flag and general officers in the Navy and Defense Department. Outstanding petty officers can take duty with the Navy’s Ceremonial Guard.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/upd_CD/BUPERS/MILPERS/Articles/1306-900.pdf
5. Personnel Exchange Program
Location: Foreign navies including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway.
Pays and perks: Possible eligibility for cost-of-living allowance, hardship duty pay and foreign language proficiency bonus, depending on location.
Tour length: 24 months upon reporting to exchange billet.
Who’s eligible: Check with your detailer to see if your rating has billets.
Training: Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif.; lengths vary.
Why you want it: It’s a chance to live and work in places most Americans only dream of.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-921.htm
6. Attache duty
Location: U.S. embassies worldwide.
Pays and perks: Possible eligibility for cost-of-living allowance, hardship duty pay and foreign language proficiency bonus, depending on location. May qualify for civilian clothing allowances.
Tour length: 24 months upon reporting to attache billet.
Who’s eligible: Various, mostly administrative and supply ratings. Family screening required.
Training: Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif.; lengths vary.
Why you want it: It’s a piece of U.S. soil far from home, and outside your door is another country. Gain language skills for a Navy career and beyond.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-914.htm
Special NECC sea tours
Most sea-duty one-tour jobs come under Navy Expeditionary Combat Command. While specific units have individual requirements, all have basic eligibility requirements, including:
* At least 3.0 on all performance evaluation marks in the past 36 months.
* No nonjudicial punishment, courts-martial or civil conviction in the past 36 months.
* No involvement with illegal drugs or alcohol-related incidents in the past 36 months.
* A “good-low” score or higher on the semiannual physical fitness assessment, with no failures in the past three cycles, and with waivers.
* Minimum second class swimmer qualification.
7. Maritime expeditionary security force
Location: Based in San Diego and Portsmouth, Va., with recent deployments to South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and Egypt.
Pays and perks: Various, depending on deployment location. Could include combat zone tax exclusion, imminent danger pay, hazardous duty pay and family separation allowance.
Tour length: 36 months.
Who’s eligible: BM, EM, EN, GM, HM and SK.
Training: Mostly unit training.
Why you want it: Units operate small boats, protecting Navy and sealift vessels. High-octane missions include harbor and homeland defense, coastal surveillance and special missions, as well as intelligence and communications.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-977.htm
8. Riverine force
Location: Based in Little Creek and Yorktown, Va., with rotating six-month deployments to Iraq.
Pays and perks: Various, depending on deployment location and could include combat zone tax exclusion, imminent danger pay, hazardous duty pay and family separation allowance.
Tour length: 36 months.
Who’s eligible: Squadrons: male sailors in ratings BM, BU, CE, CM, CS, CS, DC, EM, EN, EO, ET, GM, HM, HT, IS, IT, MA, MM, OS, PS, QM, SK and YN. Group staffs can include female sailors.
Training: Mostly unit training.
Why you want it: This is exciting duty: force protection on rivers and in coastal waters, under threat of hostile fire. And the sailors who do it, love it.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-974.htm
9. Maritime civil affairs
Location: Based in Little Creek, Va., the group operates squadrons located at Yorktown, Va., and Imperial Beach in San Diego, and deploys worldwide.
Pays and perks: Various, depending on deployment location. Could include combat zone tax exclusion, imminent danger pay, hazardous duty pay and family separation allowance.
Tour length: 36 months.
Who’s eligible: BM, BU, CE, CM, CU, EM, EN, EO, ET, GM, HM, IS, IT, LN, MA, MC, MM, OS, PS, SK, and YN.
Training: Mostly unit training
Why you want it: Winning hearts and minds with humanitarian assistance and disaster relief; non-combatant evacuation operations, refugee operations.
Details: Contact Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (757) 462-4316 or at http://www.necc.navy.mil (http://www.necc.navy.mil/).
10. Visit, board, search and seizure units
Location: Norfolk, Va., and San Diego.
Pays and perks: Various, depending on deployment location. Could include combat zone tax exclusion, imminent danger pay, hazardous duty pay and family separation allowance.
Tour length: 36 months.
Who’s eligible: E-4 or above, AW, BM, EM, EN, ET, GM, HM, HT, IS, IT, MA, OS and SK. Must be fit, no fears of confined spaces.
Training: Unit training and certification.
Why you want it: The thrill of “non-compliant” boarding of ships from small boats and helicopters.
Details: Contact NECC.
11. Expeditionary Training Command
Location: Norfolk, Va., but deploys worldwide, with current focus on Africa.
Pays and perks: Various, depending on deployment location. Could include combat zone tax exclusion, imminent danger pay, hazardous duty pay and family separation allowance.
Tour length: 36 months.
Who’s eligible: E-5 or above, BM, BU, CE, CM, EN, EO, ET, GM, HM, IS, IT, MA, MC, PS, SK and YN.
Training: Unit training.
Why you want it: Mobile training teams instruct host nation militaries in leadership and professional development, small boat maintenance, construction, anti-terrorism and force protection, maritime combat operations, and weapons.
Details: Contact NECC.
Special sea tours
12. Mobile Security Squadron 3 Detachment Bahrain
Location: Manama, Bahrain.
Pays and perks: Combat zone tax exclusion, imminent danger pay.
Who’s eligible: E-4 and above, BM, ET, GM, IS, IT, MA, OS and SK; standards parallel those for NECC tours.
Tour length: 36 months
Training: Unit training.
Why you want it: Teams of 12 sailors deploy on Military Sealift Command ships, protecting their crews as well as their cargos of food, equipment and other supplies destined for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Details: Call the Sea Special Programs office at (901) 874-2306.
13. New construction shipboard duty
Location: Bath, Maine; Pasgacoula, Miss.; Avondale, La.; Newport News, Va.; Groton, Conn.
Pays and perks: None, but sailors collect career sea pay once the ship is delivered. Some are eligible for per diem, as well.
Tour length: 24 months after the ship is delivered.
Who’s eligible: Nearly all shipboard and submarine ratings and pay grades. U.S. citizenship is required for aircraft carriers, except for those in the ABE, ABH, AD, AF, AM, AME, AS, CS, PR and PS ratings.
Training: Varies by rating; could include special schools for new gear.
Why you want it: Only on this duty can a sailor walk away with the proud title of plankowner. Sailors in a precommissioning unit work alongside the civilian yard workers as the ship is being built and watch their workspaces get created from the ground up.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-800.htm
14. Littoral combat ship
Location: Shipyards in Marionette, Wis., and Mobile, Ala. Also, the ship’s eventual home port, San Diego.
Pays and perks: None, but sailors collect career sea pay once the ship is delivered. Some are eligible for per diem, as well.
Tour length: 24 months after the ship is delivered.
Who’s eligible: AG, BM, CS, DC, EM, EN, ET, FC, GM, GSE, GSM, HM, IT, MN, OS, SK and STG.
Training: Hybrid training tracks for specific billets on the ship.
Why you want it: This is the “hybrid sailor” duty everyone’s been talking about. Just be warned, the controversial program has experienced delays, and there’s no promising when you’ll get to sea.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-978.htm
Other tours
15. IA duty
Location: Various.
Pays and perks: Can include combat zone tax exclusion, imminent danger pay and family separation allowance. Choice of coast for follow-on duty. Advancement points for E-3 through E-5.
Tour length: Eight to 14 months.
Who’s eligible: E-3 and above, all ratings.
Training: Three weeks of combat skills training at Fort Jackson, S.C.
Why you want it: These individual augmentee assignments, generally with the Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, are short. Many sailors are taking IA tours to lock in their next tour on the coast they want or to keep their family in place to allow for children to finish school, officials say.
Details: http://www.npc.navy.mil/Enlisted/GWOTAssignment
Boost career, earn cash with these 15 hot jobs
By Mark D. Faram - Stafff writer
Posted : Sunday Mar 9, 2008 8:58:53 EDT
MILLINGTON, Tenn. — Looking to take a break from your rating, enhance your career or head for adventure? The Navy has 15 ways you can scratch that itch.
With a tour as short as eight months, you can collect special pays and benefits, learn skills and even boost your chances for advancement.
Those yearning for the familiar can try recruiting; officials often place sailors in or near their hometowns.
Others might want to head to the war zone, where everything from a short individual augmentee tour to a 36-month stint in riverine or coastal warfare is available.
“These jobs can be quite career-enhancing, giving sailors everything from greater advancement opportunity to the opportunity to take their leadership skills to the next level,” said Lt. Todd Oaks, head of the Shore Special Programs office at Navy Personnel Command in Millington, Tenn. “In many cases, you can get special training and extra pay as well, depending on the job — it can really round out a career.”
Even sailors hoping not to venture far from their ratings can take a tour on a precommissioning crew, in which a cadre of sailors help put a ship together — and net themselves the title of plankowner on commissioning day.
“It’s a challenge, but it is also career-enhancing, because you get to work with the latest and greatest technology your rating has to offer and get trained up on it as well,” said Senior Chief Gas Turbine Specialist (Electrical) (SW) Jason Hibbard, a Sea Special Programs detailer who did three precom tours. “You also get to know your ship from the bottom up as you watch it being built.”
Sailors ready for a one-tour career boost can find many of these in the online Career Information Management System alongside regular in-rating jobs. Others require special screening to be eligible, so call your detailer.
The next step? Picking just one.
Special shore tours
1 . Recruit division commander
Location: Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, Ill.
Pays and perks: $375 per month special duty assignment pay; $220 extra annual clothing allowance. Free dry cleaning.
Tour length: 36 months.
Who’s eligible: All ratings, E-5 through E-9. E-5 and E-6 sailors must have warfare qualifications and a minimum of six years in the Navy; E-5s need at least two years’ time in rate. Any hint of character, disciplinary or financial issues can disqualify. Sailors must be in shape and look good in uniform.
Training: 13 weeks of Recruit Division Commander School and instructor training at Great Lakes.
Why you want it: Though considered shore duty, RDC duty is as demanding as many sea tours, officials say. The payoff is a career boost: Over the last six years, 37 percent of E-6s on RDC duty have made chief petty officer; fleet-wide, average advancement has been 20 percent.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-954.htm
2. Recruiter
Location: Throughout the U.S.
Pays and perks: $450 per month Special duty assignment pay; some qualify for extra annual clothing allowance.
Tour length: 36 months.
Who’s eligible: All ratings, E-4 through E-8. Any character, disciplinary or financial issues can disqualify a sailor for duty. Sailors must be in shape and look good in uniform.
Training: Five weeks of Recruiting School at Pensacola, Fla.
Why you want it: Another tough shore tour, with monthly quotas to meet for field recruiters. This is the job for the outgoing, officials say, those who can talk to anyone and those who make friends easily. Those who excel in the job are eligible for meritorious advancement up to E-7. The ability to work alone is essential; many can find themselves in remote locations, where driving long distances is required. Viewed favorably by the chiefs’ board.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-964.htm
3. Navy expeditionary guard battalion
Location: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Pays and perks: Up to $850 assignment incentive pay, $225 imminent danger pay, $100 hardship duty pay as well as $250 family separation allowance. Choice of coast for next assignment.
Tour length: 12 months.
Who’s eligible: Masters-at-arms and sailors holding the 9545 Physical Security Specialist or the 9575 Corrections Specialist naval enlisted classifications. Interested sailors without these job codes can apply.
Training: Two weeks at Gulfport, Miss., and three weeks at Fort Lewis, Wash.
Why you want it: One of the toughest one-tour jobs in the Navy, working with hostile detainees at Gitmo. Guards screen detainees in medium and maximum security facilities. They can be involved in interrogation of prisoners.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-973.htm
4. Washington, D.C., area duty
Location: Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
Pays and perks: No extra cash, but many opportunities for college classes during off hours.
Tour length: Minimum 36 months.
Who’s eligible: Ratings most often needed are BU, CE, CTA, CTI, CTM, ET, IT, MC, OS, PS, SK, UT and YN.
Training: None.
Why you want it: Get an inside look at how the Navy runs on the staffs of flag and general officers in the Navy and Defense Department. Outstanding petty officers can take duty with the Navy’s Ceremonial Guard.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/upd_CD/BUPERS/MILPERS/Articles/1306-900.pdf
5. Personnel Exchange Program
Location: Foreign navies including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway.
Pays and perks: Possible eligibility for cost-of-living allowance, hardship duty pay and foreign language proficiency bonus, depending on location.
Tour length: 24 months upon reporting to exchange billet.
Who’s eligible: Check with your detailer to see if your rating has billets.
Training: Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif.; lengths vary.
Why you want it: It’s a chance to live and work in places most Americans only dream of.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-921.htm
6. Attache duty
Location: U.S. embassies worldwide.
Pays and perks: Possible eligibility for cost-of-living allowance, hardship duty pay and foreign language proficiency bonus, depending on location. May qualify for civilian clothing allowances.
Tour length: 24 months upon reporting to attache billet.
Who’s eligible: Various, mostly administrative and supply ratings. Family screening required.
Training: Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif.; lengths vary.
Why you want it: It’s a piece of U.S. soil far from home, and outside your door is another country. Gain language skills for a Navy career and beyond.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-914.htm
Special NECC sea tours
Most sea-duty one-tour jobs come under Navy Expeditionary Combat Command. While specific units have individual requirements, all have basic eligibility requirements, including:
* At least 3.0 on all performance evaluation marks in the past 36 months.
* No nonjudicial punishment, courts-martial or civil conviction in the past 36 months.
* No involvement with illegal drugs or alcohol-related incidents in the past 36 months.
* A “good-low” score or higher on the semiannual physical fitness assessment, with no failures in the past three cycles, and with waivers.
* Minimum second class swimmer qualification.
7. Maritime expeditionary security force
Location: Based in San Diego and Portsmouth, Va., with recent deployments to South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and Egypt.
Pays and perks: Various, depending on deployment location. Could include combat zone tax exclusion, imminent danger pay, hazardous duty pay and family separation allowance.
Tour length: 36 months.
Who’s eligible: BM, EM, EN, GM, HM and SK.
Training: Mostly unit training.
Why you want it: Units operate small boats, protecting Navy and sealift vessels. High-octane missions include harbor and homeland defense, coastal surveillance and special missions, as well as intelligence and communications.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-977.htm
8. Riverine force
Location: Based in Little Creek and Yorktown, Va., with rotating six-month deployments to Iraq.
Pays and perks: Various, depending on deployment location and could include combat zone tax exclusion, imminent danger pay, hazardous duty pay and family separation allowance.
Tour length: 36 months.
Who’s eligible: Squadrons: male sailors in ratings BM, BU, CE, CM, CS, CS, DC, EM, EN, EO, ET, GM, HM, HT, IS, IT, MA, MM, OS, PS, QM, SK and YN. Group staffs can include female sailors.
Training: Mostly unit training.
Why you want it: This is exciting duty: force protection on rivers and in coastal waters, under threat of hostile fire. And the sailors who do it, love it.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-974.htm
9. Maritime civil affairs
Location: Based in Little Creek, Va., the group operates squadrons located at Yorktown, Va., and Imperial Beach in San Diego, and deploys worldwide.
Pays and perks: Various, depending on deployment location. Could include combat zone tax exclusion, imminent danger pay, hazardous duty pay and family separation allowance.
Tour length: 36 months.
Who’s eligible: BM, BU, CE, CM, CU, EM, EN, EO, ET, GM, HM, IS, IT, LN, MA, MC, MM, OS, PS, SK, and YN.
Training: Mostly unit training
Why you want it: Winning hearts and minds with humanitarian assistance and disaster relief; non-combatant evacuation operations, refugee operations.
Details: Contact Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (757) 462-4316 or at http://www.necc.navy.mil (http://www.necc.navy.mil/).
10. Visit, board, search and seizure units
Location: Norfolk, Va., and San Diego.
Pays and perks: Various, depending on deployment location. Could include combat zone tax exclusion, imminent danger pay, hazardous duty pay and family separation allowance.
Tour length: 36 months.
Who’s eligible: E-4 or above, AW, BM, EM, EN, ET, GM, HM, HT, IS, IT, MA, OS and SK. Must be fit, no fears of confined spaces.
Training: Unit training and certification.
Why you want it: The thrill of “non-compliant” boarding of ships from small boats and helicopters.
Details: Contact NECC.
11. Expeditionary Training Command
Location: Norfolk, Va., but deploys worldwide, with current focus on Africa.
Pays and perks: Various, depending on deployment location. Could include combat zone tax exclusion, imminent danger pay, hazardous duty pay and family separation allowance.
Tour length: 36 months.
Who’s eligible: E-5 or above, BM, BU, CE, CM, EN, EO, ET, GM, HM, IS, IT, MA, MC, PS, SK and YN.
Training: Unit training.
Why you want it: Mobile training teams instruct host nation militaries in leadership and professional development, small boat maintenance, construction, anti-terrorism and force protection, maritime combat operations, and weapons.
Details: Contact NECC.
Special sea tours
12. Mobile Security Squadron 3 Detachment Bahrain
Location: Manama, Bahrain.
Pays and perks: Combat zone tax exclusion, imminent danger pay.
Who’s eligible: E-4 and above, BM, ET, GM, IS, IT, MA, OS and SK; standards parallel those for NECC tours.
Tour length: 36 months
Training: Unit training.
Why you want it: Teams of 12 sailors deploy on Military Sealift Command ships, protecting their crews as well as their cargos of food, equipment and other supplies destined for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Details: Call the Sea Special Programs office at (901) 874-2306.
13. New construction shipboard duty
Location: Bath, Maine; Pasgacoula, Miss.; Avondale, La.; Newport News, Va.; Groton, Conn.
Pays and perks: None, but sailors collect career sea pay once the ship is delivered. Some are eligible for per diem, as well.
Tour length: 24 months after the ship is delivered.
Who’s eligible: Nearly all shipboard and submarine ratings and pay grades. U.S. citizenship is required for aircraft carriers, except for those in the ABE, ABH, AD, AF, AM, AME, AS, CS, PR and PS ratings.
Training: Varies by rating; could include special schools for new gear.
Why you want it: Only on this duty can a sailor walk away with the proud title of plankowner. Sailors in a precommissioning unit work alongside the civilian yard workers as the ship is being built and watch their workspaces get created from the ground up.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-800.htm
14. Littoral combat ship
Location: Shipyards in Marionette, Wis., and Mobile, Ala. Also, the ship’s eventual home port, San Diego.
Pays and perks: None, but sailors collect career sea pay once the ship is delivered. Some are eligible for per diem, as well.
Tour length: 24 months after the ship is delivered.
Who’s eligible: AG, BM, CS, DC, EM, EN, ET, FC, GM, GSE, GSM, HM, IT, MN, OS, SK and STG.
Training: Hybrid training tracks for specific billets on the ship.
Why you want it: This is the “hybrid sailor” duty everyone’s been talking about. Just be warned, the controversial program has experienced delays, and there’s no promising when you’ll get to sea.
Details: http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/508/milpers/1306-978.htm
Other tours
15. IA duty
Location: Various.
Pays and perks: Can include combat zone tax exclusion, imminent danger pay and family separation allowance. Choice of coast for follow-on duty. Advancement points for E-3 through E-5.
Tour length: Eight to 14 months.
Who’s eligible: E-3 and above, all ratings.
Training: Three weeks of combat skills training at Fort Jackson, S.C.
Why you want it: These individual augmentee assignments, generally with the Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, are short. Many sailors are taking IA tours to lock in their next tour on the coast they want or to keep their family in place to allow for children to finish school, officials say.
Details: http://www.npc.navy.mil/Enlisted/GWOTAssignment