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12-10-2015, 05:46 PM | #1 |
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CTI's at sea
I have the opportunity to reclass to CTI possibly and I have a few questions but one in particular. I am interested in being on ships at some point in my career and I haven't seen a clear answer on whether or not CTI's get on ships often. I understand that they aren't part of the ships crew when they do but I was wondering how common/easy will it be to go to sea as a CTI. If I volunteer to will they put me at sea? Also how long do CTI's usually get to go to sea for?
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12-10-2015, 06:54 PM | #2 | |
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CTIs get attached to deployable assets on an as-needed basis. So you might only be at sea for a couple weeks of their 6 month deployment. In some cases you'll ride the whole deployment, but that's not suuuper common. CTTs and CTRs can pretty much go wherever they want: ships, subs, aircraft, or shore. They'll do full tours at whatever they go to as a full time crew member for the most part. So there's that. /r CTT1
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12-10-2015, 10:46 PM | #3 |
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Hi, CTI2 here. Like CTT1 says, it really depends on the language. Some have no opportunities for certain types of dirsup, others are a little bit more open. Your chances to go to sea are better if you stay in past the first enlistment - for Chilings it's less than 20% for E4 or E5, but about 50% as an E6.
You can look on the community manager pages to see the breakdown for a specific language family - "sea" includes ships, subs, and aircrew though. Of the dirsuppers I know, most go out for a month or two at a time. Longest I've heard of was 9. |
12-14-2015, 05:37 PM | #4 |
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Your only opportunity to get on a ship is through DIRSUP Surface orders. When I went through DLI, the only orders we were allowed to volunteer for were DIRSUP Sub orders, but you may have more say as a fleet returnee.
However, even if you're DIRSUP, you may be farmed-out to a local shop as there are usually only a limited number of opportunities for a bunch of E4-E6 linguists. If this happens to you, as it did me, just make sure you make yourself heard and keep bugging your home division as you could get lost in the shuffle. I was literally forgotten while working a shore mission. After 2 years I showed up to let them know I was ready to deploy if they had a spot and they thought I was coming to volunteer from another division. I was on a Med tour for about 6 months and our crew left out of Norfolk with the ship. This is rare as most are flown out and flown back for short stints. I was an Arabic linguist, though. As the others stated, it is probably going to be different depending on your language. |
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