my fiance is in bootcamp and going to school for aviation. he says it will take about 6 weeks to complete.
most aviation rate schools will be in pensecola, florida.
The aviation branch of the navy is called the Naval Aviation.
A Yeoman (YN) rating is a clerk or records keeper."A yeoman must be of keen intellect, ambitious worker, conscientious objector towards right or wrong, a brilliant conversationalist, a dramatic orator, an excellent mathematician, a handsome courier, and a genial personality. Very few of the specie of mankind can come up to these standards of perfection and, consequently, deteriorate into machinist mates (aviation and otherwise), quartermasters, ship's cooks, radiomen, and some even go so low as to become pharmacist's mates."From So You Wanna Be a Yeoman, published in OUR NAVY, 1945.
The rate/rank designator MMCS is a Senior Chief Machinist's Mate (E-8). Read in its correct Navy form, it stands for "Machinist's Mate, Chief, Senior".
Could be Aviation Electronics Technician O level. Fun job! I am I level, its better.
At age 17 he dropped out of high school to join the navy, where he found his niche as an aircraft mechanic and aviation electronics specialist.
A Navy term used to describe the original Aircraft Carrier flight deck personnel. Abbreviation for Air Dale is currently used by the AD - Aviation Machinist Mate. http://www.navy-wwii-memoir.com/pdfs/Prologue.pdf
"MM" is the standard rate designation for a Navy Machinist's Mate; however, there are many levels of MM specialties (e.g., nuclear, motorboat, auxiliary, aviation, etc., which is where the extra letter designator comes from. The increase in MM specialties is due to the Navy's policy of combining some older ratings (e.g., Torpedoman) into the MM rating to save money.The "L" designation indicates the sailor is a General Level (no specialty) Machinist's Mate; the "2" indicates rank, in this case a Petty Officer 2nd Class (E-5).
if you are into aviation, sure.
First Class Petty Officer, and a Machinist's Mate (a job rating). The MM stands for Machinist's Mate, and the "1" denotes that the person is a First-Class Petty Officer.
Motor Machinist's Mate 1st Class Petty Officer (MOMM1)
aviation electronics technician airman