How Did Your Military Experience Influence Your Engineering Career?

RE: How Did Your Military Experience Influence Your Engineering Career?

LucHardware — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 07:59:47 GMT

Even if you have very good results at school, it can not be compared with the military hightech. Here you learn to use spectrum and networkanalysers which are not available at school. Also circuits as PLL (build with TTL and analog components), digital Filtering, radar and sonar are complete new for trouble shooting. I learn a lot on technical and social area in the '80.

RE: How Did Your Military Experience Influence Your Engineering Career?

the-dubster — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 18:16:56 GMT

Well, I spent 25 Years in the Royal Air Force as an Aircraft Avionics Engineering Technician, RADAR, ESM, ECM, ECCM, Comms, Navigation Systems, AC/DC Power Generation and Distribution.

My interests began before this and probably shaped my career choice and not the other way around. Cold War? Check. That and most stuff since . . . (1985 - 2010)

Since I retired from the RAF in 2010 I've stayed close to my roots and now teach others to fix those very same systems on Fast Jets, I guess this was led by my previous experiences and knowledge.

Plus I work 5 miles from home!! [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-259073ab-0629-41ed-aea8-29e88a323b30/contentimage_5F00_938.png:16:16]

RE: How Did Your Military Experience Influence Your Engineering Career?

Jan Cumps — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:05:02 GMT

I served in West-Germany in 1987, while the cold war was still on.

No impact on my engineering carreer [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-259073ab-0629-41ed-aea8-29e88a323b30/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]

[View:/resized-image/__size/620x408/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-259073ab-0629-41ed-aea8-29e88a323b30/contentimage_5F00_182402.jpg:620:408]

[View:/resized-image/__size/150x150/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-259073ab-0629-41ed-aea8-29e88a323b30/contentimage_5F00_182403.jpg:150:150]

I was 19 at the time. Things change....

RE: How Did Your Military Experience Influence Your Engineering Career?

DAB — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:11:31 GMT

Hi Randall,

I did not serve in the Military, but I did work in the defense industry for 35 years.

As an engineer I worked on a lot of projects and helped make a lot of useful equipment, some of which is still in use some 15 years after I retired.

November 11 is bitter sweet for me as I was disabled while traveling to a Military Conference on CMMI, which ended my engineering career.

I never doubted my reasons for helping to make advanced capabilities for the Military. After all, we mostly had peace during the years and many small wars are better than big ones.

The current situation came about because some politicians decided that war was no longer possible after the Soviet Union fell. We tried to tell them they were wrong, but they were bent on their Peace Dividend.

Well that dividend and cut I'm military spending led to 9/11 and the current Middle East mess. A clear case of penny wise and pound foolish decisions.

DAB