New Grad to Nuke school

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Permalink Reply by David B. on December 10, 2010 at 11:24am

What a Great Christmas present for your family. 

Permalink Reply by William in Nashua on December 11, 2010 at 12:09pm

That is great, my son will be at boot camp for Christmas he is leaving for boot camp tomorrow.

I am surprised they let them go home for Christmas right after boot camp but that is a nice gesture.

 

 

 

 

Permalink Reply by Dean Alton on December 11, 2010 at 12:23pm

The communication with your son will be long in coming, but have patience. The kid box will be hard on both of you, hang in there. Our son got to make first call in about 4 weeks. My wife was chopping at the bit!! His letters were always upbeat and positive and after PIR he was very positive about the boot experience. I hope your son has the same good fortune. Reviewing the video's about boot will help you both a lot. Good luck and have a Merry Christmas. 
William in Nashua said:

That is great, my son will be at boot camp for Christmas he is leaving for boot camp tomorrow.

I am surprised they let them go home for Christmas right after boot camp but that is a nice gesture.

 

 

 

 

Permalink Reply by Steven S on December 12, 2010 at 3:34am

Dean, Welcome to the group.  My son is in power school, scheduled to graduate February 25th.  He was in the barricks through A school.  He got 2 weeks leave after A school, flew home to Texas and we drove he and his new wife back to GC and into their new home there on base.  We learned all about the Navy move process too.  Anyhow, good luck to your son and if you have any questions, I'll try.

 

Steve

Permalink Reply by Dean Alton on December 27, 2010 at 8:28pm

Thank you Steve for the info. Our son starts "A' school on 1-3-11. I think he is anxious to get started. I hope you had a good holiday with him. We had a good time, and we may go to SC to see him after A school. I like to golf and eat, so what better place.

Permalink Reply by Rob Gennrich on January 20, 2011 at 10:51pm

Speaking from personal experience  "A" school is the easy part of the pipeline. He will need to learn study skills there as well as his rate.   Unless things have changes he will need a 2.75 to pass from "A" school into power school (I was in class 9238T for my "A" school ) and 2.5 to go from Power School to prototype. The volume of information and speed at which you get it is very formidable. It was not uncommon even in "A" school to spend 15-20 hours a week studying and doing homework. In Power School that number for me at least rose to about 30 hours a week. 

Your son will NEED to take Friday night and at least 1/2 day on Saturday  off to just decompress from the week. I know when I went through power school we had a bible and prayer study at lunch on Fridays with the command chaplain (not a job I'd want) providing pizza for us. It helped with the stress  it also allowed us to commiserate with all the classes going through the school.   

Permalink Reply by John K on January 25, 2011 at 3:12pm

How is your son dong? My daughter is also there (grad on 12-3-10) and loves it.....