Posted on May 19, 2015
Why are Signal Warrants requirements different from the others
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Was just wondering why the 255 Series signal requirements seem to be much compare to the standard requirements for most MOS. They require some civilian professional certifications before your packet could even be looked at among others like your 4 year degree (a must for this MOS), your military education and experiences.. Just wondering if there are signal officers around that can answer these questions. I’ll also like to hear from other specialties about their packet experiences.
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Warrant Officer Candidate School (WOCS)
25A: Signal Officer
21st SIG BDE335th SIG Cmd160th SIG BDE
Warrant Officer Candidate School (WOCS) 25A: Signal Officer 21st SIG BDE335th SIG Cmd160th SIG BDE
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Because Signal Soldiers, NCOS, Warrants and Officers are a technical cut above the rest :-) Branch pride - you can talk about us but you can't talk without us!! In the end the civilian certifications will only help in career transition.
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Considering the warrant track. Thank you sir, MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca for the quick reply. I'm going to work at it, considering the end reward.
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MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca
Best of luck CW3 (Join to see), you can do it!! We're all soldiers, but signal soldiers really have a technical edge. All soldiers are smart but we commo guys have the opportunity to be smarter due to the training we need on the equipment we use. This will hopefully serve you well if you keep your education up to date. Never met or worked with a commo warrant that I didn't idolize, to include a Marine Warrant (or Gunner) in Somalia.
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Civilian certs provide a baseline. It is no longer an army standard but an industry standard. Security + net+ a+ are all base knowledge for 255's. If you don't have one you are under baseline by INDUSTRY standards not just army standards.
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Thank you sir, CW3 (Join to see) I have some industry standard certs like the CCNA (Routing and Switching), CCNP (Routing and Switching) Microsoft MCP, among other industry standards, was told the school house requires that I get the Security+. I am working on it as my understanding is, being a warrant allows me to focus on my MOS and being in the signal field makes my military career much easier since that’s what I’ve done as a civilian for the past 15 years.
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I would also say this MOS is very technical in nature so having things like Security + are a must have. I know on the commissioned side both Net+ and Sec+ are a required part of BOLC. Also since we work so close with civilian counterparts like that in Disa having a commen base helps to work seamlessly across the board.
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Thank you Sir, CPT (Join to see) Do you think that CCNA (Routing and Switching) should be supplemented for Net+. I want to believe that Net+ is an industry standard, though I think Cisco is a little more advanced in their technology as they go in depth into what the industry is and what is mostly the acceptable industry standards?
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SGT Seun Peters. I don't have any experience with a CCNA but I do have a few colleagues that have it. Again I think just having these bases the same across the board just help to achieve that we are all on the same page for the basics
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Yes CCNA is a much more technical certificate than Net+. In fact if you have it you will have an easier understanding of your Warrant Officer Basic Course. It's changed a little since I did it, but the first 6 weeks were CCNA.
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