King's Core EAWS Tutorial

KING'S ENLISTED AVIATION WARFARE SPECIALIST (EAWS) COMMON CORE TUTORIAL

Welcome to the King EAWS Common Core PQS questions and answers study guide. It was designed to aid instructors and students alike.
All of the questions were answered from instructions and directives found in NAVEDTRA 43902, Personnel Qualification Standard (PQS), Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist (EAWS), Common Core.
EAWS qualification is mandatory for all E5's and above serving on sea duty (Type 2 or 4), where a qualifying program exists. You must qualify in the warfare specialty of your platform within 18 months to be recommended for the advancement cycle to paygrade E6. This started in FY 2000.
Your qualification must be maintained at follow-on commands. All personnel already qualified who report from shore duty to an eligible Type 2 or 4 command, must re-qualify within 12 months of reporting or their advancement recommendation will be withdrawn.
Advancement points awarded for warfare qualified Sailors were eliminated by the September 2000 advancement cycle.
Full implementation of the EAWS program went into effect in March 2000.
EAWS Program coordinators may obtain EAWS Certificates by going to Navy Personnel Command.
Go to "Reference Library" then "Forms". The current Stock Number for EAWS Certificates is 0107LF984700, OPNAV Form 1414/1.
Simply click on the link marked "order forms", add the stock number to the search block, and it will give you information on ordering forms for your command, squadron, or ship.

Enlisted Specialist Programs
The purpose of the enlisted warfare specialist designation is to recognize, through a formal qualification program exceptional achievement, initiative, and professional qualifications of enlisted personnel.
To qualify as an enlisted warfare specialist, you must complete a qualification program that is part of the personnel qualification standards (PQS). The qualification program consists of general knowledge requirements of the overall mission, engineering capabilities, combat systems and other mission-essential systems, and basic equipment involved in the particular warfare specialty.
The Navy has four enlisted warfare specialist designations: Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist (ESWS), Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist (EAWS), Enlisted Submarine Specialist (ESS), and Enlisted Seabee Combat Warfare Specialist (ESCWS).
For details on each program, and up-to-date eligibility requirements, consult the following instructions:
Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist Qualification, ESWS, OPNAV 1414.1;
Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist, EAWS, OPNAV 1414.2;
Enlisted Submarine Specialist, COMSUBLANT/COMSUBPACINST 1552.16;
Seabee Combat Warfare Qualification, OPNAV 1410.1.

General qualifications to receive a warfare specialist designation are as follows:
- Be assigned to a command authorized to award a warfare specialist designator. Specifically a command must be a Type 2 or 4 Sea Duty command as defined by the Enlisted Transfer Manual, NAVPERS 15909G.
Specifically Type 2 Duty is defined as 'Sea Duty': Duty performed in commissioned vessels and deployable squadron's homeported in the United States, including Hawaii and Anchorage, AK. Also included are U.S. land based activities and embarked staffs, which require members to operate away from their duty station in excess of 150 days/year.
Type 4 Duty is defined as 'Non-rotated Sea Duty': Duty performed in commissioned vessels and deployable squadrons homeported overseas. Also included are overseas land-based activities and embarked staffs, which require members to operate away from their duty station in excess of 150 days/year.
- Be attached for a specific length of time
- Maintain an overall performance mark set by specific instruction
- Pass a written and/or oral examination
- Be recommended by the chain of command
- Be approved by the commanding officer
- Obtain a page 13 entry in your service record.
The instruction for each warfare specialty gives specific qualifications. They include requirements for any waivers, administrative procedures, disqualification guidelines, requalification requirements, and any related PQS requirements.
The EAWS (Core) program was designed to encompass basic areas of study applicable to the entire Navy. Just click on the section of the PQS that you would like to review.

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The last update was completed: 27 February 2008

EAWS Acrobat Word Files and Message Board:
You can obtain an Acrobat Format version of this study guide provided for me by AE1(AW) Thomas Coleman. Just contact me and I will email it to you, or you can visit his website by clicking HERE.
Thank you AE1(AW) Coleman for this valuable format!
You can also see an EAWS message board, managed by AE1(AW) Coleman. Click here to link directly to the message board.

Core EAWS Exam and Contact Information:
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Just email me your question, comment, or suggestion, and I will answer your email as soon as I receive it.
Also, for a copy of the new, updated EAWS Core practice exam, inputs, questions and/or comments, or if you are interested in developing a webpage for your communities' EAWS specific PQS, please contact me at:

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AZC(AW/NAC) Kimberly King

Short History of the EAWS Program and Wings

In order to recognize enlisted personnel serving in Naval Aviation who were not aircrew members, a new program and set of wings was established.
The Operational Navy Instruction, OPNAVINST 1412.5 of 19 March 1980 established the Enlisted Aviation Warfare Qualification Program and the new wing insignia. The Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist wings are issued to enlisted personnel who acquired the specific professional skills, knowledge, and military experience that resulted in unique qualification for service in the aviation activities of the Navy.
Back when the program was first established, EAWS wings were normally attained from only the aviation ratings.
General requirements included a 3.6 or better performance rating out of a possible 4.0 evaluation, nomination by the Commanding Officer, and a minimum of 24 months of sea duty in an aviation assignment. Candidates had to be in direct or indirect support of air-warfare missions.
Administration, training, and testing was carried out at the command level, and standards were kept high to maintain the integrity of the program.
Individual qualification requirements could only be approved by those who had themselves previously qualified.
Aviation personnel were then authorized to wear the silver EAWS wings, and the letters "AW" in parentheses were added to their rating designation. The specialty was not, and still is not, open to officers, but LDO and warrant officers who qualified prior to commissioning, can retain the priviledge of wearing their wings.
The 1981 Uniform Regulations described the Aviation Warfare wings as follows: “A silver embroidered or silver color metal pin (for enlisted); winged, with a central device consisting of a shield with an anchor superimposed thereon and a scroll at the bottom of the insignia.”
Lastly, if you think this syllabus is difficult, consider what EAWS candidates had to complete prior to 1998. The syllabus back then, NAVEDTRA 43423-D, dated September 1995, was so complicated that in order to qualify you had to know or complete:
- 1,199 questions
- 65 tasks
- Aircraft or Shipboard firefighting Course
- Basic Life Support Certification - Navy Safety Supervisor training course
- Aviation Maintenance Ratings Fundamentals course
- Standard First Aid course
- Airfield or Flight Deck Indoc Brief
- Complete a written exam
- Complete an oral examination board.
Today's much streamlined syllabus includes 259 questions, and only 36 tasks, one course, an oral and written examination. Study hard and remember...it could be much worse.

References for the EAWS Program include the following:
- NAVADMIN message 015/01; Subj: NAVY-WIDE EXAMS FOR ADVANCEMENT IN RATE OF ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE MEMBERS TO PETTY OFFICER THIRD CLASS THROUGH FIRST CLASS
- NAVADMIN message 117/00; Subj: ADVANCEMENT POINTS FOR ENLISTED WARFARE QUALIFICATION AND VOLUNTARY EDUCATION
- All Hands Magazine; Aug 2000; MMCM(SS/AW) Jim Herdt answers why advancement points were eliminated for the EAWS/ESWS programs.
- Link Magazine; July-September 1999; Enlisted Warfare Deadlines Approaching
- Navy Times; July 1999; New Enlisted Warfare Standards
- CNO Message 281952Z Oct 98; Joint Enlisted Aviation Warfare Program Information Update.
- NAVOP message 008/97; Subj: ENLISTED WARFARE QUALIFICATION POLICY CHANGES
- All Hands Magazine; June 1997; Article on 2 Enlisted members onboard the USS Independence
- NAVADMIN message 219/97; Subj: ENLISTED WARFARE QUALIFICATION POLICY CHANGES. (Note: Cancelled; Historical Interest Only)
- Navy Times; 10 Feb 1997; Warfare Pin Overhaul
- All Hands Magazine; date unknown, cira 1997; MCPON answers OS1 Majors on why the Warfare programs were made mandatory
- All Hands Magazine; Enlisted Warfare Qualifications Change; 1997
- Navy Times; Date Unknown; Tighter Rules For Aviation Pin by John Burlage, Times staff writer; cira 1997
- Navy Wire Service, 9 December 1996: NWSB389: Pinning Aboard the USS Independence
- NAVADMIN 226/95; Subj: ENLISTED AVIATION WARFARE SPECIALIST (EAWS) QUALIFICATION PROGRAM. (Note: Cancelled; Historical Interest Only)
- NAVADMIN 094/94: Subj: ENLISTED AVIATION WARFARE SPECIALIST (EAWS) QUALIFICATION PROGRAM. (Note: Cancelled; Historical Interest Only)
- NAVADMIN 123/94: Subj: ENLISTED AVIATION WARFARE SPECIALIST (EAWS) QUALIFICATION PROGRAM. (Note: Cancelled; Historical Interest Only)
- MILSPERMAN 1306-102; Type Duty Assignment Codes
- NAVPERS 156651; United States Navy Uniform Regulations
- MILPERSMAN 1220-060; Enlisted Warfare Specialist (EAWS) Designation
- CNO Message 222208Z Aug 87; Enlisted Warfare Qualification Standards

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EAWS Core JQR Sections

102: First Aid
103: General Safety
104: Chain of Command
105: Naval Aviation Heritage and Doctrine
106: Enlisted Ratings
107: Aviation
108: Airfield Familiarization
109: Naval Aircraft
110: Aviation Capable Ships
111: Other Ships and Submarines
112: Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Warfare
113: Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization (NATOPS)
114: General Administration
115: Naval Aviation Maintenance Program (NAMP)
116: Naval Aviation Logistics Command Management Information System (NALCOMIS)
117: Basic Aviation Supply
118: Hazardous Material (HM)/Hazardous Waste (HW)
119: Pollution Control Fundamentals

Obtaining The Core or Specific PQS Books
The Personnel Qualification Standards (PQS) books can be obtained by doing the following online:
1. Go to the Chief of Naval Education and Training (CNET) website: https://www.cnet.navy.mil/index.asp
2. Click on the tab (left) marked: Professional Development
3. Under Professional Development click on the tab marked
Personnel Qualification Standards (PQS)
4. When you enter the site click on the tab marked "Obtain PQS"
5. This will take you to a log-in screen; log into the system
6. On the next screen click on the tab "Warfare"
7. You can then view the PQS. Note: These are Acrobat files and can be printed or saved in Notepad (text) format.

NOTE:
On page 55 of the EAWS Core syllabus lists NAVEDTRA 12010-B, Aviation Maintenance Ratings Fundamentals, as a required course. This course has changed to NAVEDTRA 14022, Aviation Maintenance Ratings. This course can be found at the Navy Personnel Command website. Go to the tab marked "NETC", then "Navy Advancement Center". Under this site go to "My Advancement" or "My ESO" and then click on the link "Course Listing". Click on the link for the course, 14022, Aviation Maintenance Ratings".

Other Enlisted Warfare Related Sites:

Enlisted Warfare Specialists Updates!
Click to read the latest articles, news, or changes affecting the EAWS, ESWS, and other Warfare Specialists programs.
OPNAVINST 1414.2B; Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist Instruction PDF file
Click to download the latest copy of the EAWS Instruction.
EAWS PQS PDF file
Click to download the latest copy of the Core PQS
Rolfe, Vanscoy, and King's C-40 EAWS Specific Tutorial
PQS questions and answers for the C-40 aircraft specific syllabus, compliments of SK1 Rolfe and AME1 VanScoy.

LHD ESWS Platform Specific Syllabus
Compliments of FCC(SW) W. Lewis, and FC2(SW) D. Girimonte
F/A-18'E'Aircraft Specific Syllabus
Email me for the F/A-18 'E' syllabus generously provided by AME1(AW) Maxwell M. Johnson.
You can also email AME1 Johnson at maxwell.johnson@navy.mil or johnsomm@nimitz.navy.mil
EAWS Tutorial for the MH-60S specific syllabus provided by AT1(AW) Hard
PQS questions and answers for MH-60S helo specific syllabus, provided by AT1(AW) Jason Hard.
Kunz and King's H-60 HS EAWS Specific Tutorial
PQS questions and answers for HH/SH-60H/F aircraft specific syllabus, provided by AW1(AW) Benjamin Kunz.
Chapman and King's VAQ EAWS Specific Tutorial
PQS questions and answers for VAQ aircraft specific syllabus, provided by ADC(AW) Michael Chapman.
Starr and King's C-2 EAWS Specific Tutorial
PQS questions and answers for the C-2 aircraft specific syllabus, compliments of AMS1 Starr.
HM1 Coffman and HM2 Arthur's Fleet Marine Force (FMF) Warfare Specialist Tutorial
PQS questions and answers for the Fleet Marine Force Warfare Specialist syllabus.
NAVADMIN 00117
The latest change to the EAWS Program
U.S.S. Saipan and King's Amphibious Assault Ship, LHA Specific Tutorial
PQS questions and answers for LHA specific syllabus, provided by ET2(AW)Groat.
EAWS Board Game
EAWS Patch

Soldier City and Military Best.
These websites can be used to order EAWS patches online.
King's C-130 EAWS Specific Tutorial
PQS questions and answers for the C-130 aircraft specific syllabus.
King's ESWS Tutorial
PQS questions and answers for the Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist syllabus.

King's Aircrew Resource Page
Aircraft and flight reference page with lots of useful Aviation related links for beginners to instructors. A must for aircrewmen!

King's CVN EAWS Tutorial
Questions and answers for the CVN EAWS specific PQS.
King's C-9B/DC-9 (Specific) EAWS Tutorial
Questions and answers for the C-9B/DC-9 aircraft specific PQS.
King and Pecci Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist (ESWS) Tutorial
PQS tutorial with answers.
Washington and King's Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist P-3 Specific Tutorial
This website has been completely updated.

Watts' and King's EAWS EA-6B Specific Tutorial
PQS questions and answers for the EA-6B aircraft specific syllabus.
Coleman's Naval Warfare Acrobat Files
Download Acrobat Files (PDF) for many of the EAWS syllabus' that are online!
King's Strange Navy and Sea Stories and Terms
Interesting true sea stories and some traditional Navy terms explained

AMH1 John Logsdon's AM Chief Petty Officer Study guide
A Chief Petty Officer study guide for Petty Officers in the AM rating.

Naval Military Personnel Manual
At the Bureau of Naval Personnel (BUPERS) website go to "Instructions" and go to the link for the "Military Personnel Manual". Refer to section 1220-060 of the Naval Military Personnel Manual for details on the EAWS Program.
Personnel Qualification Standard (PQS) Program
Official Navy site for downloading the latest copy of the EAWS Core PQS or your specific platform's PQS.
Tony's VFA Specific EAWS Guide
Questions and answers for the VFA platform.
United States Navy
Official website

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