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We have been married for five years as fulltime students with fulltime jobs so we have the limited hang out time thing down. She understands that we will be moving around so really it is going to come down to how permanent of an engineer they are looking for.
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Wait, do you have a degree? You are making a huge mistake if you enlist as a nuke with a degree if there's any chance of qualifying for nuke officer. You'll make way less while in the military, get treated like poo poo, and make less in the civilian sector.
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I have a lovely BA that qualifies me to teach algebra to middle school kids. I spoke to an officer recruiter and he was not interested. Do I talk to someone else about nuke officer?
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He might not have been interested due to your GPA... or maybe they were full for the month/quarter/whatever they go by. I've had plenty of liberal arts nuke officers. My RTA was an english major.ManMythLegend posted:I have vigor about the topic because I have seen it before, and I am trying to look out for your future JO's, NCO's, and you believe it or not. At some point during your enlistment someone like you is going to sit up and think to themselves, "This is bullshit. I should be an officer..." This should be on every page. KetTarma fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Dec 31, 2011 |
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Its the gpa that must be the problem then (2.75). I did really good on my oar I got a 54 if I recall correctly. The officer recruiter gave me his number and told me to put a package in after my first semester of nuke school. We will see though. I am just glad my wife can follow me.
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Welp, that'll do it. Yeah, your wife can follow you but she's basically slaving her career ambitions to yours for the short term. What engineering related job was she offered around Goose Creek?
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KetTarma posted:Welp, that'll do it. She has a phone interview for something related to civil engineering, maybe it was a process engineering job. She will be back from the barn in a bit and I will ask. She wants to go back to California for her career but our state is so hosed that firms are still laying off engineers right now and it is looking like it will take at least a decade for things to turn around out here. e:Its the entry level position for "interdisciplinary engineering". She says there are like 5 different fields and depending on which one she hopefully gets selected for she will be between gs9-gs11. According to her the biggest deathblow my enlistment could do to her career would be sticking her in Japan for four years. Honestly though I helped her through her school a lot and I think she feels guilty, so she would not dream of saying no to me in anything I wanted to do. 1337_ScriptKiddie fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Jan 1, 2012 |
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Jan 1, 2012 00:33
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Are you volunteering for subs?
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KetTarma posted:Are you volunteering for subs? No and if you are telling me right now that subs are the only thing that draws nukes there then I am about to smile.
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No, submarines are miserable. As a carrier nuke, you're limited to norfolk, san diego (only one carrier is there), japan (ditto), or bremerton, wa. Plan on norfolk because that's where the majority of nukes end up.
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can't be stationed in Japan on a submarine though
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Cerekk posted:can't be stationed in Japan on a submarine though No but you can get Guam!
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Henry Meowlins posted:No but you can get Guam! Or Hawaii!
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Oh no, not a tropical paradise with no barriers to getting hired as an American citizen. Anything but that.
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KetTarma posted:No, submarines are miserable. As a carrier nuke, you're limited to norfolk, san diego (only one carrier is there), japan (ditto), or bremerton, wa. Plan on norfolk because that's where the majority of nukes end up. There are two in san diego
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Really? I was going by the last student orders report. It only listed the Vinson as homeported in San Dog
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KetTarma posted:Really? I was going by the last student orders report. It only listed the Vinson as homeported in San Dog Current Homeports: Norfolk: Enterprise (decom soon), Lincoln (soonish), Truman, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Bush, Ford Bremerton: Stennis Everett: Nimitz (soonish) San Diego: Vinson, Reagan (although I think Raegan has a Bremerton yard period somewhere in the not too distant future) Japan: GW
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Holy Hell, my wife went on a forum for nuke wives and asked a question. All the nuke wives got excited about a newcomer posting there and invited her to get a verified forum account. So she linked her facebook, got approved and invited to facebook group that all the nuke wives bitch on about their husbands and the navy. Well half the group got pissed she was invited before I finished boot camp and is claiming my wife violated their "security clearance". She woke me up this morning telling me that I was not kidding about these people. I now have no objection to her moving her horse out and spending as little time with these people as possible. 1337_ScriptKiddie fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Jan 14, 2012 |
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1337_ScriptKiddie posted:a navy wives club scared me because they were loving insane Yup. Mine is leery of getting involved in any of that because its basically high school drama from people that are too old for that.
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I ran into this married 19 year old A1C last week whose wife is going to "a long tech school at Goose Creek & is in the navy", so I presume it's nuke school. This genius figured that it would be a better idea to live in Goose Creek and commute to Shaw AFB in Sumter every day. 200 miles, 5 days a week. He even said it isn't as bad on gas as you'd think. Not like those navy spouses you just mentioned, but still just as crazy/retarded.
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KetTarma posted:Yup. Mine is leery of getting involved in any of that because its basically high school drama from people that are too old for that. The kicker: It was the mothers of nukes that created the most drama.
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Aaaaaand finals are done. Comp on Tuesday.....thank god.
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http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/02/ap-goose-creek-nuclear-school-plans-expansion-021612/quote:GOOSE CREEK, S.C. — The nuclear power training school at the Naval Weapons Station in Goose Creek is expanding. Will better manning and training equipment fix a lot of the issues with the nuke program? When I read this article the first time I could not believe that they are using 70's technology as a training device.
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Most of the fleet is 70's - 80's technology. Thing about it is, when it breaks in the middle of nowhere you have a chance to fix it without having to carry a semiconductor lab on board.
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1337_ScriptKiddie posted:http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/02/ap-goose-creek-nuclear-school-plans-expansion-021612/ There are as many as a thousand students on hold waiting for prototype class openings at any given time. I can't talk about "training improvements" but we're not getting any manning changes. Forcibly staying at optimal manning by making prototype duty mandatory following your first sea tour, however...
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Hehehe, now that I am done with Power School (and sweet bonus!) it's hilarious to me that the Grad Hold pool is so big. 300+ the last I heard, and there are still people that graduated in December who have no clue when they are going to Prototype.
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itsrobbiej posted:Hehehe, now that I am done with Power School (and sweet bonus!) it's hilarious to me that the Grad Hold pool is so big. 300+ the last I heard, and there are still people that graduated in December who have no clue when they are going to Prototype.
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Not UNIX posted:I graduated in October and I'm praying that I make the next list. Why? Enjoy literally the best time youll ever have in the navy
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1337_ScriptKiddie posted:When I read this article the first time I could not believe that they are using 70's technology as a training device.
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Mad Dragon posted:Sounds like they're going to convert a pair of Los Angeles-class boats. Yeah, they are planning on retrofitting a couple 688is.
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camino posted:Most of the fleet is 70's - 80's technology. Thing about it is, when it breaks in the middle of nowhere you have a chance to fix it without having to carry a semiconductor lab on board. I guess I was picturing that a device responsible for containing fission would have a shorter life than a combustion engine. v  v
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1337_ScriptKiddie posted:I guess I was picturing that a device responsible for containing fission would have a shorter life than a combustion engine. v Ha! Obviously you are not familiar with Naval Engineering. poo poo is built to keep on keeping on at exactly the same level of adequate design forever. Adequacy is our watchword.
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1337_ScriptKiddie posted:I guess I was picturing that a device responsible for containing fission would have a shorter life than a combustion engine. v Nuclear reactors are one of the sturdiest things humanity has developed. I would say that any American reactor could operate much longer than your expected lifespan if the operator decided to continually refuel it.
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Im (hopefully) standing my last navy nuclear watch tomorrow. I'm excited 
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KetTarma posted:Im (hopefully) standing my last navy nuclear watch tomorrow. I'm excited "The Navy was a drill, secure from drill"?
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KetTarma posted:Im (hopefully) standing my last navy nuclear watch tomorrow. I'm excited I still remember standing SRO as my last navy watch. I wasn't supposed to stand that watch but they gave me my TLD back at the last possible second, damned Navy.
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belt posted:I still remember standing SRO as my last navy watch. I wasn't supposed to stand that watch but they gave me my TLD back at the last possible second, damned Navy. I was no long allowed to carry a gun during my last SRW lol
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They let roving watches carry guns? The most we had when I was still in was a lovely wooden baton, later replaced with an ASP. Considering we had zero training on either, they would be pretty much useless if we ever had to use them.
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Mad Dragon posted:They let roving watches carry guns? The most we had when I was still in was a lovely wooden baton, later replaced with an ASP. Considering we had zero training on either, they would be pretty much useless if we ever had to use them. Yeah, can't remember the particular reason why but we started a few months after I got there we did and even carried them in home port. Just SRWs though, not any other nuke watches
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