How do you become a navy Combat Photographer?
Posted by brian | Posted in General Photography Help | Posted on 02-19-2010
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Do you become a navy photographer and after a couple years apply to become a combat photographer?
Also what additional training do combat photographers recieve?
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Join the Navy.
Seriously, though, the Navy does not guarantee jobs. If you want a guaranteed job, see an Army recruiter.
OK, you want to enlist in the Navy as a MC, or Mass Communications Specialist. This is a sort of new rating and it is made up of some old ratings they combined like Journalist(JO), Photographers Mate(PH) and Lithographer(LI). The “A” School for this rating is at Ft. George Meade in Maryland and it is a multi-service school called DINFOS.This means that all of the other services use it as well so bear in mind that the other services have a similar MOS or job. They work in Navy publications and AFRTS plus a multitude of other tasks. Get the rating and get the through the “A” school and you can move in the photog direction you want
there are no more PHs.. they were merged with a few other ratings to become MCs. Not all MCs have the NEC for photography, let alone combat photography
Getting MC is hard, getting the exact path of C schools to become a CP is impossible to guarantee.