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Operations => Emergency Services & Operations => Topic started by: aviator9417 on January 20, 2014, 03:38:30 AM

Title: Advice for a new senior member to get into ES as soon as possible?
Post by: aviator9417 on January 20, 2014, 03:38:30 AM
I will be a senior member in about 2 weeks and was a former cadet 4 years ago.  Unless the IS classes for GES have changed I should already have that out of the way.  I was never gym qualified or UDF qualified only UDF trainee.

what would be the best and fastest way to get ground team qualified?
Title: Re: Advice for a new senior member to get into ES as soon as possible?
Post by: Eclipse on January 20, 2014, 03:42:02 AM
The quickest way to get it done is NESA.

Until then, start with UDF, which shares many tasks, and can get you on actual missions with very little pre-requisite work.

Title: Re: Advice for a new senior member to get into ES as soon as possible?
Post by: HGjunkie on January 20, 2014, 03:42:14 AM
Go to NESA in the summer.
Title: Re: Advice for a new senior member to get into ES as soon as possible?
Post by: a2capt on January 20, 2014, 03:44:33 AM
Takes about a smidgen of an evening to do GES anyway.

Fastest way, like everyone else. Sign up for training exercises. Study the guide so it's not foreign. Get the equipment.

..and there's no PCR-CA-020, so fix that or take it off.
Title: Re: Advice for a new senior member to get into ES as soon as possible?
Post by: SarDragon on January 20, 2014, 04:31:41 AM
Quote from: a2capt on January 20, 2014, 03:44:33 AM
Takes about a smidgen of an evening to do GES anyway.

Fastest way, like everyone else. Sign up for training exercises. Study the guide so it's not foreign. Get the equipment.

..and there's no PCR-CA-020, so fix that or take it off.

Maybe he's in Sq 20? The Chino gang.
Title: Re: Advice for a new senior member to get into ES as soon as possible?
Post by: a2capt on January 20, 2014, 04:53:50 AM
Then that would be PCR-CA-437. But according to the posts, he's not in anything just yet. ;)
Title: Re: Advice for a new senior member to get into ES as soon as possible?
Post by: aviator9417 on January 20, 2014, 05:02:41 AM
Can senior members go to NESA as a student?  I though that was a cadet activity?
Title: Re: Advice for a new senior member to get into ES as soon as possible?
Post by: Panache on January 20, 2014, 05:05:32 AM
Quote from: aviator9417 on January 20, 2014, 05:02:41 AM
Can senior members go to NESA as a student?  I though that was a cadet activity?

Yes.  In fact, many NESA courses are for SMs only.

http://ncsas.com/?emergency_services_academy&show=career_fair&careerFairID=37 (http://ncsas.com/?emergency_services_academy&show=career_fair&careerFairID=37)
Title: Re: Advice for a new senior member to get into ES as soon as possible?
Post by: Alaric on January 20, 2014, 05:05:49 AM
Yes they can go as a student.  That's how I got my initial certification as an MS/AP/MO in 2010

Title: Re: Advice for a new senior member to get into ES as soon as possible?
Post by: aviator9417 on January 20, 2014, 05:10:11 AM
Quote from: Alaric on January 20, 2014, 05:05:49 AM
Yes they can go as a student.  That's how I got my initial certification as an MS/AP/MO in 2010

Thanks!  I will be sure to check that out and start saving up money.