Navy

The sea warriors

Life at Navy is full of adventure; if you are grown up with the tales of adventure at sea, then Navy can be the best career option for you. It can give you a life full of excitement, respect, and much more. This is the only organization of the world which will send its team to conquer all three poles – Mt Everest, North Pole and South Pole. This is a highly difficult, different, very satisfying and challenging career; these achievements summarize the meaning of a career in the Indian Navy.

Key to Success

To be successful you should have/ develop:

High levels of physical fitness and alertness
A strong desire to serve the nation
Emotional stability in crisis situation
Ability to focus for long periods of time
Good team spirit

Scope and Opportunities

The Navy has a role to protect and safeguard the country’s exclusive economic zone, the ocean resources from exploitation by other countries and protect the coasts from any invasion, control the sea in war time to make sure the safely of passages of our own ships and deny passage to the enemy ships, save friendly merchant ships, attack enemy ships and sub-marines and protect offshore installations. During invasion, navy attacks enemy coastal protects, fires on onshore aims by cruisers and destroyers or bombards them through aircraft carriers based fighter bombers.

Lifestyle & Social Status

Officers can be posted at different terrains and get to see the remotest corners of the country.
They are required to be on the move constantly and duty often takes precedence over personal commitments.
Working under all weather conditions.
It can be 24/7 days job.
Honor and dignity come automatically with this job

Job Profile

A Navy officer holds an important status at ocean operational shipping, flying airplanes, submarine, and an integral part of a ship, onshore bureaucracy coordinating the activity of the fleet, providing domain skill training or giving technical support and back up facilities.

Executive branch

This is the Operational Branch of the Navy. Control of ship at ocean can only be managed by officers of the Executive Branch. There are enormous openings in any of the three arms of the branch:

(a) General Service;

(b) Aviation Arm and

General Service

Navy executive Officers are both ‘working’ and ‘fighting’ during war from the ship. They are an important part of the crucial system that handles the ship and also uses the ship as an equipment of tactical warfare. Navy executive officers learn to have a good knowledge of the ship’s capabilities and limitations and can turn them to their advantage. It is for this reason that a Navy executive Officer alone can aspire to command a naval ship.

Some more profiles in navy as follow:

Logistics officer
Hydrographic survey
Aviation
Submarines
Technical branch
Electrical branch
Education branch

Skill Sets

Critical Thinking
Analytical skills
Complex Problem Solving
Judgment and Decision Making
Interpretation of meteorological reports
Operating sophisticated electronic and mechanical controls

Work Value

Recognition
Independence
Serving the nation

Current Job Scenario

Descending Rank Structure: Indian Armed Forces

Navy

ADMIRAL (Chief of Navy)

VICE ADMIRAL

REAR ADMIRAL

COMMODORE

CAPTAIN

COMMANDER

LIEUTENANT CDR

LIEUTENANT

SUB LIEUTENANT

Course Synopsis

Course Options	National Defence Academy	Naval Engineering
Academic Eligibility	1)For Air Force and Navy -10+2 with Physics, Chemistry, Maths	10+2 with PCM and have secured more than 75% marks in PCM and minimum 50% marks in English
Fees	No Fees	No Fees
Age Limit	Candidates should be between 16½ to 19½ age group	Candidates should be between 16½ to 19½ age group
Duration	3 Years	3 Years
Mode	Regular	Regular
Entrance	UPSC competitive examination 2 times a year, in April – May & Sept. – Oct