Master Chief Christopher Rambert, a graduate of Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, is the U.S. Navy’s first Robotics Warfare Specialist.
The Chief of Naval Personnel, Vice Adm. Rick Cheeseman, right, and Navy Personnel Plans and Policy Division Director Rear Adm. Jim Waters, present the new robotics warfare specialist rating insignia, worn by Master Chief Robotics Warfare Specialist Christopher Rambert, at Naval Support Facility Arlington, Feb. 27, 2024. It’s a lesson he learned more than two decades ago while attending Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville.
That path, as hinted in its name, deals in robotic and autonomous systems. It aims to establish a dedicated enlisted workforce specialized in unmanned and autonomous technology, according to a report from the military’s media service. He moved to Naperville in the late 1990s — between his freshman and sophomore years — and enrolled in Neuqua Valley just as the school, started in 1997, was getting established. Neuqua is where the roots for what would eventually become his focus in the Navy took shape, Rambert said. Namely, it was in electronics class with a teacher name Joe Wagner.
“When he started working on something, and something would blink or start working, this smile on his face and that look of, ‘Oh wow, I did that,’” Wagner said. Initially, Rambert only intended to take his electronics and shop skills as far as working as a mechanic or a basic electrician one day, he said.
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