If you want training in aviation maintenance, don't join a Service that separates the various skills and won't allow you to work on different systems. That describes the Army and the Air Force in case ya didn't know.
In the Coast Guard, the AMT rate (rate is equal to MOS) works on every part of the aircraft except the avionics. That means the engines, the hydraulics, the flight controls, the sheet metal work, the electrical wiring, etc.
I started out as a 67N (Huey Mech) then a 67T (Blackhawk Mech) and after 8 years I switched Services to the US Coast Guard and worked on H3 Pelicans and H60 Jayhawks. Never regretted that decision.
I've got my A&P now, but don't use it to make a living.
