NECC/ SWCC/riverine

[mike172]

I am trying to figure out the difference between these different communities. I know some of them are new, it's all very confusing. Are you going to be able to apply to say NECC like you would SWO, Aviation ect. I'm trying to learn about all the communities and these are very difficult to get a grasp on. If anyone could provide any info, knowledge that be great.

thanks

Edit: Ok i got that riverine forces are all being rolled into the NECC, so I guess i only really need to find out about NECC. Thanks

 

[HeyJoe]

I am trying to figure out the difference between these different communities. I know some of them are new, it's all very confusing. Are you going to be able to apply to say NECC like you would SWO, Aviation ect. I'm trying to learn about all the communities and these are very difficult to get a grasp on. If anyone could provide any info, knowledge that be great.

thanks

Edit: Ok i got that riverine forces are all being rolled into the NECC, so I guess i only really need to find out about NECC. Thanks

NECC is a Type Commander as are CNAF (Aviation), CNSF (Surface), CSF (Subs) and NETWARCOM (networks, space, IW) which all reposrt to USFFC. NECC is taking over Riverine Warfare and Coastal Warfare squadrons as well as EOD and security forces and Seabees. NECC also is assigened task of getting IA personnel ready to go to theatre.

That said, you'd wouldn't apply directly to a Type Commander for assignment.

Currently the Marines are turning over their Riverine responsibilities to the Navy. Below are Marines at Lejeune assisting Navy personnel undergoing training to be qualified as RIVRON boat crews. Photo by HJ two weeks ago

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[HeyJoe]

Assignment to NECC

.....I only really need to find out about NECC. Thanks

Check out the NECC website. Here's what they say about orders:

There are many career opportunities within the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command community.

With the exception of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians and Navy Divers, who have their own detailers, all other billets within NECC component commands are processed in the same manner as other commands.
Orders to Commander, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command staff require flag screening.
Billets for Riverine Group One (RIVGRU), Naval Coastal Warfare (NCW), Seabees, Maritime Civil Affairs Group (MCAG), Expeditionary Combat Readiness Center (ECRC) and Expeditionary Logistic Support Group (ELSG) are processed on JASS.
Riverine Squadrons are not considered a "special program." Orders to Riverine Squadrons One, Two and Three have the following requirements:


Limited to only males at this time;
No non-judicial punishments (NJPs) for the past three years;
No physical readiness test failures in the past two years; and
Must be processed on the Job Application and Selection System (JASS)
If you are interested in a maritime expeditionary career, please speak with your command career counselor, your detailer, or visit the Bureau of Personnel’s web site at https://www.bupersaccess.navy.mil.

Photo by HJ

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[BigDeckDriver]

Any aviators out there taken the Specialty Career Path into NECC? Sounds highly interesting to me. Wondering if it's a good enough community to leave helo aviation for?

 

[wlawr005]

To the OP, all the officers I know in this community lateral transferred from other communities after earning their warfare device (mostly SWOs). I'm in ROTC and I haven't heard of any direct accessions to this community...

 

[HeyJoe]

100429-N-8273J-220 NORFOLK (April 29, 2010) Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead speaks with and answers questions from Sailors assigned to Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC) at Naval Base Little Creek. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tiffini Jones Vanderwyst/Released)

 

[Pags]

Any aviators out there taken the Specialty Career Path into NECC? Sounds highly interesting to me. Wondering if it's a good enough community to leave helo aviation for?

It's probably good enough to leave HM for

 

[navy09]

Mike- unfortunately, you can't select NECC out of ROTC. I don't know how it works for other communities, but as a SWO you'll have the opportunity to do a NECC tour as your second divo tour. I think there are also opportunities to go there as a department head but I don't know anything about them.

 

[desfend]

It's probably good enough to leave HM for

These are orders just like a MARDIV or a DDG are, you dont "leave" your rate. You will qualify for the (EXW) pin and when you end your tour of duty you will go to the next duty station like any other corpsman.

Nothings "good enough" to leave corpsman for.

 

[A4sForever]

...Nothings "good enough" to leave corpsman for.

Uhhhhhhh ... I could be wrong ... but I don't think he was talking about the Hospital Corpsman rate.

Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron (HM)

 

[BigRed389]

Mike- unfortunately, you can't select NECC out of ROTC. I don't know how it works for other communities, but as a SWO you'll have the opportunity to do a NECC tour as your second divo tour. I think there are also opportunities to go there as a department head but I don't know anything about them.

Not entirely true. NECC is a lot bigger than Riverine, it includes Seabees, EOD, MSRONs, Combat Camera, among others.

Meaning you "could" direct accession by going straight into EOD, Intel, CEC/Seabees, PAO, etc if you're OCS. I know ROTC can't do most of those, but I know EOD is an option out of ROTC for a slim few.

For RIVRON specifically, SWO DHs only fill the OPS billet, so only 1 DH billet/RIVRON. EOD and SWO split all the non-Warrant/LDO/RL billets in a RIVRON.
SWO 2nd tour DivOs are Det AOICs, Det AOICs are either EOD or SWO post-2nd tour DivOs, and CO/XO are 1 SWO/1 EOD, depending on which squadron you're with.

There are also RIVGRU billets as well(which are open to females), but you don't do anything "fun" with Group...they're stateside staff.

 

[Pags]

These are orders just like a MARDIV or a DDG are, you dont "leave" your rate. You will qualify for the (EXW) pin and when you end your tour of duty you will go to the next duty station like any other corpsman.

Nothings "good enough" to leave corpsman for.

Uhhhhhhh ... I could be wrong ... but I don't think he was talking about the Hospital Corpsman rate.

Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron (HM)

Yeah, I was talking about HELMINERONs. Plus, I know BigDeckDriver so I was just busting his balls. He's not leaving HM anytime soon, these days anyways.

 

[AllAmerican75]

How does the specialty career path work? Can aviators do riverine as a disassociated sea tour kind of thing? Seems like it would be a pretty sweet deal.

 

[BigRed389]

How does the specialty career path work? Can aviators do riverine as a disassociated sea tour kind of thing? Seems like it would be a pretty sweet deal.

No.

I know...never say never in the Navy, but the billets don't exist.

 

[Jim123]

No.

I know...never say never in the Navy, but the billets don't exist.

One (count 'em one) of my friends did his dissociated tour with a MSRON about two or three years ago. I don't know the details of how he got there, if the billet was coded as a 1xxx, if PERS-41 and 43 made or horse trade, or if it was no big deal at all. Off the top of my head one of his peers at the job was a squared away LDO (prior enlisted MA) and others were various SWOs, so I got the idea he was bit of a fish out of water. I also think that him being there confused his first DH screen board because the detailer subsequently moved him to a more conventional nonflying billet before his second look.

FWIW.