Topic: Usable skills ?

[waterat]

Here‘s a question...would I be able to use my commercial diving experience in the Army at all? It has included plenty of subsea construction / inspection etc, as well as all that oilfield stuff, and No, I don‘t want to be in the Navy, thanks (before anyone suggests it)...I also work as an industrial climber, so with all the rigging exp etc, maybe the Engineers ?? Anyway, thought I would ask...cheers

[St. Onge]

Choose what you‘d enjoy most, but I would recommend:

Combat Engineer (043), a combat arms trade in which your rigging experience would be applied -- and diving experience, especially if you were able to become Combat Diver qualified.

Line Technician (052), a combat arms trade in which only your climbing and rigging experience would be a factor.  You could expect to climb antenna towers of 400+ ft in height, and poles of 30 to 90 ft in height.  You may only spend a small percentage of your career actually climbing anything -- as linemen work in a few places other than pole-lines, and antenna farms.

Cheers.
     

(edited fer spellin‘)

[St. Onge]

waterat -- a supplement to my last...

More info on Combat Diver here:

 http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/ael/pubs/300-006/B-GL-361/007/FP-001/B-GL-361-007-FP-001.pdf

 

[waterat]

Thanks, mate...I‘ll look into that...slainte.