mail your self-scored answer sheets to the 

 Naval Education and Training Program 

 Development Center where the scores will 

 be verified and recorded. Make sure all 

 blanks at the top of each answer sheet 

 are filled in. Unless you furnish all the 

 information required, it will be 

 impossible to give you credit for your 

 work . You may wish to record your scores 

 on the assignments since the self -scoring 

 answer sheets are not returned. 



The Naval Education and Training 

 Program Development Center will issue a 

 letter of satisfactory completion to 

 certify successful completion of the 

 course (or a creditable unit of the 

 course) . To receive a course-completion 

 letter, follow the directions given on 

 the course -completion form in the back 

 of this NRCC. 



NAVAL RESERVE RETIREMENT CREDIT 



This course is evaluated at 24 Naval 

 Reserve retirement points, which will be 

 credited in units as follows: Unit 1: 

 12 points upon satisfactory completion of 

 Assignments 1 through 6; and, Unit 2: 12 

 points upon satisfactory completion of 

 Assignments 7 through 12. These points 

 are creditable to personnel, eligible to 

 receive them under current directives 

 governing retirement of Naval Reserve 

 personnel. Naval Reserve retirement credit 

 will not be given for this course if the 

 student has previously received retirement 

 credit for any Aerographer ' s Mate 3 & 2, 

 NRCC or ECC. 



You may keep the textbook and 

 assignments for this course. Return them 

 only in the event you disenroll from the 

 course or otherwise fail to complete the 

 course. Directions for returning the 

 textbook and assignments are given on the 

 book-return form in the back of this 

 NRCC. 



PREPARING FOR YOUR ADVANCEMENT 

 EXAMINATION 



Your examination for advancement is 

 based on the Manual of Navy Enlisted Man- 

 power and Personnel Classification and 

 Occupational Standards (NAVPERS 18068-D) . 

 The sources of questions in this examina- 

 tion are given in the Bibliography for Ad- 

 vancement Study (NAVEDTRA 10 52) . Since 

 your NRCC and textbook are among the 

 sources listed in this bibliography, be 

 sure to study both in preparing to take 

 your advancement examination . The stand- 

 ards for your rating may have changed 

 since your course and textbook were 

 printed, so refer to the latest editions 

 of NAVPERS 18068-D and NAVEDTRA 10052. 



COURSE OBJECTIVE 



The objective of this course is to 

 provide the Aerographer ' s Mate with infor- 

 mation on the enlisted rating structure, 

 rating requirements, procedures for 

 advancement, and sources of information; 

 operation, care, use, and maintenance of 

 pressure, wind, temperature, humidity, 

 precipitation, cloud, and visibility 

 equipment, and recording procedures; the 

 function, operation, care, and use of 

 radar and satellite equipment; operation, 

 care, use, and operational procedures for 

 communications, office, and specialized 

 meteorological equipment; watch routines 

 including observational programs, pro- 

 cedures, and code systems, plotting and 

 analyzing surface, upper air, oceano- 

 graphic, and specialized weather charts, 

 the filing and display of weather data; 

 the fundamentals of oceanography; admin- 

 istration, publication, and supply; basic 

 meteorology including air masses and fronts, 

 circulation patterns, and meteorological 

 elements. 



While working on this nonresident 

 career course, you may refer freely to 

 the text. You may seek advice and instruc- 

 tion from others on problems arising in 

 the course, but the solutions submitted 

 must be the result of your own work and 

 decisions. You are prohibited from re- 

 ferring to or copying the solutions of 

 others, or giving completed solutions to 

 anyone else taking the same course. 



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