The Navy has to accurately track its equipment, aircraft, vessels and men so as to be able to coordinated their assets and perform the many missions that they face. Serving as a Navy Ground Station Analyst is a job that requires a detail-oriented person someone that is able to handle a multitude of details and do so accurately. Without people trained in Radar devices their ability to track and locate such items would be strictly limited. Members of the operations and radar tracking team, such as the Ground Station Analyst monitor advanced and sophisticated tracking and radar equipment, acting as a team to track and maintain operations in support of the Navy mission.
The Navy Ground Station Analyst is the person that is responsible primarily to use radar and is tasked with locating, detecting and keeping track of ground and surface targets, ships, personnel, vehicles, vessels, aircraft and missiles. You will use state of the Art radar equipment to monitor movement and to help forecast coming weather systems. Operating as a Navy Ground Station operator you will perform monitoring early warning defense and air defense systems, analyzing images and radar data, setting up and operating equipment for radar detection of artillery and missile weapons fire, recording and plotting data on charts and plotting boards, and working with the latest in radar equipment.
You will also work with sending and receiving communications and messages using electronic communications systems and radios, performing equipment maintenance on CGS radar and mission equipment, and analyzing softcopy and radar imagery data. Training to become a Navy Ground Station Analyst requires that you first attend basic training for 9 weeks where you will learn how to become a Navy enlisted seaman. After you complete your boot camp training you will advance to technical school for 20 weeks, where you will receive 20 weeks of individual advanced training. You will work on equipment and operate radar equipment in simulated battle conditions, as well as classroom training on various radar topics and skills.
You will be taught how to identify various aircraft, missiles and sips, how to record and compare the records, and how to compute and determine the direction, speed of travel, and other technical factors. If you are detail oriented, good at mathematics, and have an interest in electronic equipment then this could be the job you are well suited for.