in the correct spaces when you need it. As shop
supervisor, you should always be willing to help others,
but you must have a system to keep track of material
assets.
You can make a simple equipment checkout log
containing information, such as item description,
serial number, work center, name of the person to
whom the item is checked out, date loaned out, date
returned, and a space for the lender’s initials. Logging
this information will allow you to track tools
borrowed and returned and to identify the borrower.
(This accountability system works only if everyone
uses it!)
Whenever you issue tools to ship personnel in the
form of toolboxes or kits, keep an inventory of the
tools issued. Tools are government property and, as
such, are accountable items. Thousands of dollars are
needlessly spent on tools each year because tools
“walk off’ or are carelessly left lying around to be lost
or stolen.
TRAINING
Training for personnel may be either formal off-ship
training or shipboard division/shop training. As a
supervisor, you spend a good part of your time training
your work force or arranging for training. Much of this
training is informal, such as showing a new technician
how to align or adjust a radar repeater or how to use a
technical manual. A good training program contains a
balance of the various elements of training. The better
trained your work force is, the more readily your shop
can perform the required maintenance with which you
are tasked.
FORMAL OFF-SHIP/SHOP
TRAINING
Formal off-ship training is composed of one or more
of the following schools:
Factory schools–held by various vendors or
contractors. This is the costliest form of training
available. In addition to travel funds, full or partial per
diem usually must be funded by the type commander
(TYCOM). Often these schools are the only source of
training available for new types of equipment being
installed on new vessels or vessels undergoing
modernization.
Navy class A and C schools–designated class A
or C to identify the level and type of training offered.
Class A schools offer the basic technical knowledge and
skills required to prepare personnel for job entry level
performance and further specialized training. Class C
schools offer the advanced knowledge, skills, and
techniques required to perform a particular job in a
billet. To send your personnel to these schools, you
must obtain training quotas. The Catalog of Navy
Training Courses (CANTRAC), discussed later in this
chapter, contains information on how to obtain
quotas.
Other formal schools–available from mobile
technical units (MOTUs). The classes offered cover a
wide range of equipment in use in the fleet and some of
the basic skills required to maintain this equipment.
MOTUs announce scheduled classes via messages to all
local units. This is done on a monthly or quarterly basis,
depending upon the location of the MOTU.
The Catalog of Navy Training Courses (CANTRAC),
NAVEDTRA 10500, lists all formal courses of instruction
offered to naval personnel. This catalog contains the
following information on each of the courses listed:
Location
Length
Class school (A, C, P)
Convening frequency
Purpose
s c o p e
Prerequisites
Quota control
Reporting destination
The CANTRAC is an invaluable aid for the senior
ET and supervisors as they plan off-ship training. The
CANTRAC is normally located in the Educational
Services Office (ESO).
SHIPBOARD OR SHOP
TRAINING
Shipboard or shop training is necessary throughout
the naval establishment. Technicians reporting to their
first duty station from a C school have much to learn
about their particular work center or work group
operation and system configuration. The courses of
instruction that ETs attend generally provide only the
fundamental theory and skills required to perform the
minimum maintenance on electronic and digital
equipment. Most C schools do not have the manpower
or equipment available to have the students perform all
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