Enlistment

[Gorduz]

I cant say much as I only served one year as a conscript in the Norwegian Navy, but generally I think the advises here are worth listening to.

Make sure you get a job that can give you skills useful for a civilian occupation as well. And I don't mean things like leadership and teamwork which is more about personality development than direct skills, I mean theoretical and practical knowledge in fields like computer science, nuclear engineering or logistics and administration. In Norway I have several friends who served as navigational officers on patrol boats and could use their experience to get international navigational certificates for commerce shipping.

If you plan on going into the coast guard my experience in the navy generally suggests that the smaller the ship the better.