The White Falcon - 02.10.1964, Side 3

Friday, October 2, 1964
WHITE FALCON
3
You In Preparing
For Your Future
TELEPHONE CALLS! TELEPHONE CALLS!
— Answering inquiries is just part of the job Paul
R. Watson, SN, has to do. He also takes care of
USAFI testing, USAFI correspondence courses,
university correspondence courses and he gives
tuition aid assistance for the University of Mary-
land. Administering high school and college level
GED tests is still another phase of Watson’s job.
CORRESPONDENCE CORNER — Surrounded by
Moore, SN, assisting Chief Faustino Cabcabin in
It Doesn’t really matter what Naval Station sailors are
interested in learning. What’s important is that they make
an attempt to study something that will benefit them—
now and later.
Helping many sailors here to enroll in study courses and
obtain text books is the job of the Education and Training
Office. However, this is only one
facet of their job.
E & T personnel check every
service record to make sure men
are eligible for advancement in
rating. When the time comes, they
also order exams from the testing
center in Great Lakes, Ill.
For the salior who has not com-
pleted high school, E & T is the
place to go. Administering
General Education Development
tests is part of their job. After a
person has completed the tests with
passing grades, E & T personnel
assist in obtaining a diploma from
the persons former high school.
E & T also gives college GED
exams which, if successfully pas-
sed, are equal to one year of col-
lege.
For five dollars, sailors can
take out their first United States
Armed Forces Institute course.
After the first course there is no
longer any cost. E & T works
in liasion with USAFI in making
this possible. Both college and
high school courses are available.
Colleges also work with the
E & T office in bringing their
courses to the service man, how-
ever the cost is usually somewhat
higher.
Have you ever heard of NES-
EP, SCORE or STAR? Well if
you haven’t, you are missing out
on what could be the biggest op-
portunity of your life. These are
just some of the programs offered
by the Navy for you to further
your education and advance your-
self in rate. The place to go for
them? Right, E & T.
texts is Jerry C.
filling out an ap-
CHECKING THE WORK — Chief Personnelman
James S. Rasmussen has his hands full; all work
performed in the office must pass through him
so that he can check it before it goes to the officer
in charge. Here he checks work done by one of the
office staff on a man’s service record.
HUNT AND PECK — Dennis Buice, SN, may look like he hunts
and pecks the keys, but that is not the case. Buice makes all NEC
entries in service records and he has to be accurate—making an
error in a man’s service record would cause many complications.
plication for a Naval Orientation course. Moore is in charge of all
E & T personnel are trained
Buice is also in charge of E-3 advancements and the administering
military correspondence courses and he “issues and receives” per
to assist you in finding the pro-
of the exams. Assisting personnel in changing their rate is another
sonnel coming aboard. He also helps in administering E-3 exams.
gram that will help you the most.
task assigned Buice.
KEEPING UP WITH CHANGES — Taking care of all special pro-
grams is John W. Hockenbrock, PN3. Special programs include UDT
and officer programs. Hockenbrock also handles all BUPERS in-
structions and must keep changes in them up to date as he is
doing here.
PLENTY TO DO — The responsi-
bilities of E & T Officer in Charge,
Ens. Don G. Dorner, are many-
fold. It is his job to make sure
all work done in the office is cor-
rect and in order. Ensign Dorner
is also Officer in Charge of the
barracks division.
IN SAFE KEEPING — Assistant office supervisor James I. Howell,
PN2, handles all military confidential correspondence courses and
keeps them locked in the above safe. Howell is also in charge of
enlisted classification codes E-4 through E-9 and rating advance-
ments E-4 through E-9.