IT Training in the Military?

firehzd1 asks: "Yesterday's article about the new Czar of Security for the Department of Homeland Security raises a very important question, especially lately. What type of opportunities are there for IT work in the military/government. It seems every article I read is bashing the govt/military for terrible IT decisions/systems but I never hear the other side of the story. How bout we hear from those in the field that can give us a idea of what it is like behind the other side of the heavily armed gate?"

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Opening!

[Faust7]

What type of opportunities are there for IT work in the military/government.

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Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years experience neural implantation
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Re:Opening!

[Corgha]

Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years experience neural implantation
- Minimum 4 years experience xenobiology

Awww, man! It's so frustrating! Here I am with 3 years of experience in neural implantation and xenobiology, but all the low-level jobs have been outsourced to India.

Join the military

[m.lemur]

Travel to interesting places
Use interesting computers
Then blow them up!

Hear from them?

[Overand]

What's it like? Well, they could tell us... but they'd have to kill us.

well

[Anonymous Coward]

I work for a branch of the military (i wont say which) but i work in an information security branch. we have top knotch people, some with degrees. some with certifications. some with neither. but every last one of us is TOP KNOTCH. this is why the United States is on top in these fields, trust me :)

Word from the ranks

[dbCooper0]

Well, sorta. My son's office (Navy Recruiting, West Michigan) has been the only recruiting office in the region *not* to have their 2k boxen be hit through the recent RPC holes - or so I'm told.

That's because I know enough to send him links to patches when necessary. He patches his office, it keeps working.

Just talked tonight; I told him that he should fix me up with a phat DoD contract. He said "Do you really want to work and live in Detroit?" Apparently the nearest IP dept is near Gratiot, and downtown...and they don't allow telecommuting.

I said..."Phuk that. I wouldn't pass the piss test anyway :)."

Re:microsoft

[macshune]

"...the f-22 has been plagued by uptime problems for a while now"

What? Like in flight, Mach-2 rebooting? bah! Back in my day, we had to do barrel-rolls to empty out the carbs! And pop the clutch just to get it off the ground! You youngins have it sooooo easy!

Damn, we didn't even have helmets, just eatin' bowls...on our heads!

Which?

[th3axe]

The computers or the places?

You call that a shell script??

[randomizer9]

DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY!