so i want to be a weapons engineer

[Automaggot68]

boy ill slap the **** out of you

OH NOES!!!111oneoneonseventeen

[Automaggot68]

Sorry sometimes I forget im talking to a bunch of internet geeks who sit at their computers all day long.

[-=Squid=-]

boy ill slap the **** out of you

Says the Juggalo.

I hate to say it, but Automaggot has every bit of ability to run around breaking people in half.

[Automaggot68]

Says the Juggalo.

I hate to say it, but Automaggot has every bit of ability to run around breaking people in half.

DOOOOD

[Kai]

Sorry sometimes I forget im talking to a bunch of internet geeks who sit at their computers all day long.

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Edit- People, stop confusing Wicked_Wayz with Wicked_Klown.

[WicKeD_WaYz]

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Edit- People, stop confusing Wicked_Wayz with Wicked_Klown.

Please do, I hate ICP

[Automaggot68]

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Edit- People, stop confusing Wicked_Wayz with Wicked_Klown.

Awwww. Now where's the fun in that.

[Will Wood]

Pie!

[Fred]

wow you guys trashed this thread...

[master_alexander]

yea you did.

oh well...

i can always just delete it...

or wait for someone to get banned...

or it will just die...

[WenULiVeUdiE]

Ehh, I'll give this a thoughtful reply.

Look into different clubs in your HS, robotics specificly. Not only do you get to make things with your hands, you get to design/engineer different things. I took this root and I am very ure I want to get a degree in Mech. Eng. Also, you may want to take a few classes that involve engineering next year. This can include wood shop, auto body, small engines, mech. drawing, etc. See if this sort of thing is for you. Engineering is not all working with your hands and shooting things. Alot of it is calculations and design perfection. Alot of the time you dont even build it yourself. A prototype engineer(i.e. machinist) does that for you.

Dont set your future up just yet. Next year you may find you love earth science or english literature.

[Alpha]

I'm smack dab in the middle of highschool and I want to go into the same field. I know I'm enlisting in the USMC when I'm done with HS. I, too, have a fond relationship with things that go boom. For years I've been interested in explosives and firearms alike, and have studied up well on both subjects.

I'm still kinda shaky on what I want to actually do. I don't want to sit in aberdeen, md making guns while other marines have to go to war. I dont WANT to go to war, but the way I figure it, if I dont go, that means someone else will have to, which is my entire reason for wanting to join the military. I dont want to fight, but I will fight for a cause.

I'm the kidn of kid that if somethign is broken, I'll pick it up and fix it in 5 days with a paperclip and rubber band, and somehow make it better. I love watching reruns of MAcgyver.

I still have 2 more years to go. You've got 4. If your interested in the military, take jROTC in highschool. I HATE JROTC now (mostly its just my unit. I'm white, and my corps is 90% asian, and I am very often the victim of racism (as wacky as that may sound).. Plus the senior class has an attitude.. bleh I wont go into details, just join rotc. It'll start you off in the military (if you decide to enlist) as a higher rank (more money) and will certainly put you in boot camp with a slight advantage (mostly with drill).

Talk to a recruiter though.. They can give you advice on which courses to take. Just don't let them play you. They have a quota to fill.

gg

[gimp]

Glickman and Fred gave some good advice. I was in the same boat as you. I loved to tinker with stuff. I ended up going to college for Mechanical Engineering, then switched to computer science, then to computer engineering, then to electrical engineering. You know, the only real engineering. Oh, and when I went to school. I was sure that I wanted to be a mechanical engineer too.

If you wan't to work with your hands and tinker with stuff, you want to be a technician. They're the people that get to test the engineers designs, and try to troubleshoot. The engineer comes up with it on paper. It's real easy to become a technician if you've got the engineering degree though.

For high school, just take all the math you can. No matter what type of engineering you do, it's all just applied math. Your first priority is math, then physics, then chemistry. For languages I'd take german if I had the choice.

This is a little early to be saying, but I'm gonna say it anyway. Electrical Power Engineering is gonna be a huge field soon. It covers electromechanics. I think that will be the next big thing in weapons design. Right now, the power supplies are the bottlenecks to a lot of systems performance. It's gonna be a big field soon. I wish I had majored in it.

*edit - Just thought I'd add this as a side note. The defense industry is really big right now. It's fairly easy to find a job if you've done well in school. I didn't do that well, but I still got a job that I'm excited about. I'll be working on nuclear reactors in submarines.

[Army]

Alpha, Aberdeen is a Proving Ground, not a weapons maker.

Aberdeen tests some of the most exotic and futuristic weapons under development today.

As Supernumero of my 45B class (Feb 4-May 27, 1988), I got to go behind the fence and see some COOL stuff in testing...ever wonder what a 6500+fps HE tank projo will do to 12' of reinforced concrete? Rail guns will make alll your hair stand on end...even my, then, very bald head I even got to fire the original M4.

[Alpha]

I thought they made adn tested em there.

they should mount rail guns with 10" projectiles on convoy trucks. Might make those insurgents think twice about an ambush