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EM

Electrician's Mate

18-week pipeline · Recruit Training + A-School · NETC Great Lakes, IL
Training Pipeline
$30K
18 weeks
Annual MILPERS
$63K
E-4, 3 years service
Equipment Burden
$5K
per year (amortized)
4-Year Total Cost
$302K
DoD investment
4-Year Cost Breakdown
Training Pipeline
$30K10%
Military Personnel (MILPERS × 4yr)
$254K84%
Equipment Burden (× 4yr)
$18K6%
Training: 10% · MILPERS: 84% · Equipment: 6%= $302K
By the Numbers

Electrical failure at sea is not an inconvenience — it is a cascading emergency. EMs prevent that cascade, maintaining systems that power weapons, navigation, damage control, and communications on $1.8B destroyers.

Training Pipeline
Duration
18 weeks
Type
Recruit Training + A-School
Location
NETC Great Lakes, IL
Pipeline Cost
$30K

A Navy destroyer carries roughly 200 miles of electrical cable. EMs maintain all of it — from 450V ship's service power to 5V data circuits — while underway in sea states that would ground any civilian electrician.

Equipment & Annual Burden
Assigned Equipment
  • ·Electrical Test Equipment
  • ·Multimeters, Oscilloscopes
  • ·Electrical Tool Sets
  • ·Arc Flash PPE
Annual Equipment Burden
$5K/yr
Electrical test and maintenance tools amortized
Military Personnel Cost (Annual)
Grade BenchmarkE-4, 3 years service
Base MILPERS$63K/yr
Total Annual MILPERS$63K/yr
Force Structure Context
Annual Accessions~3,800
Avg Career Length6 years
Annual Training Bill$114.0M
Total Force 4yr Cost$1.1B
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Cost estimates derived from DoD Comptroller per-soldier analysis, RAND Corporation military personnel studies, CBO military compensation reports, service-specific training cost testimony, and published equipment unit costs. Error margin ±15%. Individual costs vary by duty station, assignment, and deployment tempo. This is Phase 3 of the Honest MOS DoD Budget Intelligence Roadmap.