A Career in Noaa

By Department of Commerce

Book Id: WPLBN0000689163
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 1.05 MB
Reproduction Date: 2000

Title:	A Career in Noaa
Author:	Department of Commerce
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Department of Commerce and Labor Document, Commerce.
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Department of Commerce Collection
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Excerpt
Excerpt: The NOAA Corps offers commissions to selected applicants who are U.S. citizens, hold a baccalaureate or higher degree in science, math or engineering, meet the entry requirements, and pass the required physical examination. Candidates are commissioned as ensigns and, after successful completion of a Basic Officer Training Class, report to a NOAA ship for their first assignment. There is a two-year obligatory service period for new officers. All applicants must meet two academic and two vision requirements to be minimally qualified: candidates must have completed 6 semester (9 quarter) hours in integral and differential calculus and a minimum of 8 semester hours (12 quarters) of physics, and they must have normal color vision and uncorrected visual acuity no worse than 20/400 (each eye) correctable to 20/20 (each eye). Training: Although there is no military drill or stringent physical training, the curriculum is demanding, with onboard ship-handling exercises coupled with classroom instruction in leadership, seamanship, navigation, and military protocol. Aviation training is available on a limited basis. Selected officers serve as pilots and navigators on NOAA?s research aircraft. Officers are considered for flight training only after they have completed their first sea tour.