Emergency, Fire & Rescue? US NAVY

Question

Hi everyone,

i want to be a firefighter later on in life.

but i was considering joining the navy seeing as how they offer Emergency, Fire and rescue.

i was trying to do some research but i couldn't find anyone who has done it first hand, or knows people that did it.

so if anyone is in the navy, or specifically did this job, please let me know what it is exactly that you do, and did you like it?

thank you!

Answer 1

good luck  all I can say is look up the job description on the navy web site.

Answer 2

The US Navy has the job for you.... DC (Damage Controlman).  These guys are highly trained to fight all kinds of fires.

(from a web site)...as a DC you are responsible for inspecting, maintainence, and repair of firefighting, flooding equipment and fire suppression systems. You will learn fire suppression systems like AFFF, HALON (or equivelant now), CO2 flooding, restaurant hood systems and so on. You will also be responsible for maintain firefighting and damage control equipment in the repair lockers, (each ship is different for the number of lockers) you also take care of SCBA's or even old style OBA's, chem warfare equipment and so forth.

You will be assigned a position on a fire party and will work your way up to a more leadership position on the party. You will find yourself doing a lot of teaching and instructing of firefighting techniques and training others on equipment. Even though DC is a fire suppression type of rate, you primary job is to ensure the rest of the crew is trained to handle a fire or flooding emergency and you will find yourself doing more incident management than firefighting.

Answer 3

yes, i think the NAVY would have a firefighter career.

i know for SURE that the Army has one

consider joining the Army, pays better

http://www.goarmy.com/JobDetail.do?id=13...