ELECTRONIC WARFARE OFFERS NEW JOBS FOR TECH-SAVVY GUARDSMEN

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | February 18, 2009 | Copyright

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- The National Guard issued the following news release:

A new career field makes room for 1,600 full-time electronic warfare professionals for the active-duty Army, the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard, a senior officer said yesterday during a Defense Department Bloggers Roundtable conference call.

The "29-series" electronic warfare specialty became an official career path Jan. 26, said Col. Laurie G. Moe Buckhout, chief of the electronic warfare division in Army Operations, Readiness and Mobilization.

"There's been a sea change, a huge paradigm shift in the ...

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