What are your career options in the U.S. Navy?

Answer 1

The U.S. Navy has by far the most career options of any of the military branches. It includes all elements of warfare - Aviation, Ships, Submarines, Land, Space, and even its own Special Forces. No one (myself included) that I know of who has ever left the Navy has ever had a problem with their career choices after leaving. If you're curious, you can look at my Supervisor Bio and it'll show you where my Naval career took me.

Even a Navy Cook is trained to such a degree that many old friends of mine are now successful Restaurant owners, Chefs, etc.

Your career path/choices are determined by your overall ASVAB score - I was fortunate enough to score high so that I could pick whatever I wanted. It's important that you study for this test in order to do well and have your choice available, but remember also that careers are given in order of force requirements first, your choice second. But recruiters do their best to make people happy, so only a small percentage (usually those who don't score very well) are given careers they didn't choose, or opted to enter through a non-career path to decide later.

You can view the current Navy Careers on the Navy's Recruiting site - the link is below. It will give you a list of current Jobs and the corresponding civilian career.

Something else to consider - all Veterans are given hiring preferences for Government jobs, and also for civilian jobs by Federal Law. Also, virtually all technical careers in the Navy or military require an active Security Clearance; it cost a lot of money for the Government to do a background investigation. This is why those with prior clearances are always hired over those that don't by civilian contractors - they don't have to pay for a BI if the contract requires that workers have clearance, as it's already been done by the Government.