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To: Dale Baker who wrote (125986)	12/2/2009 9:15:57 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (3) of 542598

For the most part, the military skills are only partially transferable. I learned avionics, one of the most selective and specialized ratings in the Navy. Even that only prepared me to be a cable installer or phone lineman when I got out without additional training. Employers like idea of military service and you get partial credit for it, but they want related civilian experience before they will pay for it as real work experience. It was a very expensive jobs training program but for me it returned a positive investment based upon the taxed wages that I made in the next ten years. About 2% of the Navy guys end up in avionics though. The other ratings qualify you for security guard work (a common 2nd job for active military based stateside). An exception was the revolving door of the military support contractors. You could do your Navy job for 3x military pay as a civilian but it was boom and bust.

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