Question: What use would SCUBA do me?

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Answer #1:

you can be a diver in the US Navy.

Answer #2:

Civilian (PADI) style training has very little to do with military diving. It is a whole different animal.

I am a Master Instructor with PADI and I have seen the training they go through in the Marine Corps to become SCUBA qualified. It is not even close to the same. Although you will have a bit of a head start on someone taking the course who has never dove, but your scuba certification will count as nothing in the military

Answer #3:

SF

Answer #4:

You would have to retrain as a combat diver mos

or go into SF

Ive never heard of a regular infantry or airborne infantry going to the combat diver school.

Thats why they have a combat diver mos.

Answer #5:

With a civilian diving certification, you can't use it in the Military.

The only ones allowed to go to the combat divers course are Special Forces.
Green Berets. some rangers.

and then you have Army Divers. you could try to transition to that, but being a civilian diver, wont really help.

and if you want to get a diving job, dont do it from the Military.
From what a commercial civilian diver contractor told to me was that, he always hires civilians with civilian training over military training, because although the Military trains it divers great, there is a big difference between military and civilian diving.


but to answer your question. Having a Civilian Certification for Scuba will do nothing.
that only helps in the civ world.
and only spec ops go to combat divers course.


if you want a civilian scuba job in the future, just keep on working on getting more civilian scuba training.





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