Do you list your college degree?

[29palms]

Incidentally, communications was quite interesting field. I don't know too many people that have a clue as to how a radio sitting in your living room works. Alot of people don't know anything about radio waves or propagation of them. If you are like most people, you hook up a pair of rabbit ears to a television set, move the antenna around to pick up the best reception possible, and that's that. In my field, we took that concept alot further into understanding what blocks radio waves and how to pick up the best reception and best success in transmission. I actually went to school for this for 3 months in MCCES MCAGCC in 29 Palms USMC base. Everything from water proofing radios, to field expedient antennas, to setting up various tactical antennas and perform preventive maintenance on them. Unfortunately, the military is the only real organization that uses radios for tactical purposes. Maybe the police or swat teams. I mean, anyone can talk on a radio, but the USMC Field Radio Operator goes into it in a different level. He must also write down messages in short hand, calculate zulu time, know about grids for calling in air strikes, keep radio watch in the field. It's more than humping a radio on you back. It involves establishing successful communications on all types of military vehicles and armored vehicles and in the field.
And then there is the RADIO TECHNICIANS. Those guys that get inside the box and change out things, troubleshoot them, repair them. That school is a year long. They get into electronics like changing resistors, capacitors, soldering, using test equipment. I've been told by those guys that it was boring. (I can do those things too but in today's world, everying is the computer chip now and very disposable.)
I have a technicians ham license and a Marine Radio Operators Permit. (MROP) but I seldom do the ham operator thing. I preferred listening to short wave radio. Getting kind of absolete with internet now. Short wave was great on a ship. Too bad they don't offer college credit for my skills in communications. They seem to offer it for far less studies.