Veh Tech Training

[jimbah]

I'm joining the reserves this summer but I'm not too sure which job to pick.  I was thinking of going as a veh tech but I heard that the only veh tech training I would get in my first summer would be learning to drive the trucks. I know I have to learn to drive them if I want to fix them, but will I get any tech training at all this summer? 

I'm also in school to be an engineer and wanted to know exacty what I would do as an engineering officer in the reserves. Is it similar to any civy job?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Eowyn]

I doubt you will get any tech training, this summer.  First you have to do BMQ, then EME Common, then QL3.

 

[Tpr.Orange]

vech tech training is approx 13 weeks long and will take your entire summer, The other possibility is that you can get on a reg force course, and only do the reserve half of it. Which goes on in the fall/winter times. So if your in school, looks like you will be doing your bmq/sq/driver wheel all during the summer and first fall/winter and then the next summer your off to CFSEME to do your QL3 as a veh tech.