Navy Nukes

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Comment by jeremy mcelroy on July 4, 2012 at 4:07pm

definitely dont miss seeing that.

in case anyone was curious, zoom in on google earth and look for the big cylindrical shapes, the smaller one is MARF and the bigger one is S8G

Comment by Zazzws on July 3, 2012 at 11:28pm

The aerial view of the facility at Balston Spa has been declassified.

43.045298, -73.949995

Comment by William in Nashua on July 3, 2012 at 11:58am

  They are expected to practice on their own and find time to get it all done not just the academic part of the program.   So if somebody seems to be spending more time in the study hall but is letting his physical fitness slide the training command will come down hard on them.  People have been kicked out of the program for failing the PFT.  My son saw it happen while he was there.  He had a "good - high" score so was not required to attend the morning PT but usually he went anyway.

Comment by jeremy mcelroy on July 3, 2012 at 7:21am

@Phillip- Beginning last year the Navy instituted a policy where if you get 3 official PRT failures in 4 years that you are involuntarily separated. I have seen this come up on my boat for both a nuke and a nonnuke. Good thing about being a nuke is that you are highly valuable so when they filed the paperwork to boot him out some high up admiral came back down that it wasnt going to happen. They said he won't be kicked out and will just do the time he has left on his contract and then leave. For the nonnuke guy though unfortunately he will be out the door here soon.

How this will go for a nuke in training i am not too sure but it probably wouldnt go well as they havent finished schooling and gotten a big reenlistment bonus so the Navy isnt losing too much if they get rid of them.

Need to tell him that if he doesnt want to risk getting kicked out that he needs to just keep trying his best

Comment by Phillip Mitchell on July 2, 2012 at 11:39pm

Heard from my FN/MM at GC that failed his PFT....He passed the BIG test today and will COMPLETE A School, he was uncomfortable with GRADUATE, they gave him a striker patch to wear above FN.  He's comming home Friday.  He couldn't explane how he gets E-4. 

His GPA was good.... B+, and, this is the big one, It's not that he can't pass the PFAs.....When he went to BC he just earned his second degree Brown belt and won two world championships in American Taekwondo.  He knows conditioning, and can't be that far from good shape.  He doesn't like to run.  I'm taking him to the dojo next week and letting him explane to Master Youshock what happened.  Didn't talk contracts, or legnth of commitment, or DEP bonus.  He mentioned possible 2 month T Track before power school and maybe we can do something then.

Something else about 4 PFTs a year, with PFAs in between.  We may have to wait until fall to retest and see what happens.  Either way, I just don't want it to be a distraction at Power School when he needs to concentrate on drinking from the fire hose.

Comment by Ric Pallson on June 29, 2012 at 5:28am

Need to be in ship shape.

When in Everett, jog to the carrier was only 3 miles - no sweat (literally).

When at sea or standing shore watch - many many hours of climbing ladders up and down - much more work than jogging the 3 miles to the ship in port. This was only to check and double check whatever they check in the propulsion spaces.

And it's only getting hotter where they are at sea --

Always 100 degrees plus in the engine room

I'm totally sweating (sorry) the waiting until my daughter gets home.  She's totally sweating on her job. Ship recently published "all hands" advice on keeping your electrolytes up and not fainting or losing it to heat stroke on the job.

So do whatever you can to keep in shape through the academic part. In the fleet, it will make a serious difference.

R

Carrier nuke dad

Comment by old Lt on June 27, 2012 at 7:38pm

lJust an note on physical fitness. my son's group at power school had pt every morning. because he was and maintained an outstanding or low outstanding, (i guess that was it outstanding or whatever the top rating was) physical fitness rating he didnt have to paticipate. This meant 1 to 2 hours of extra sleep in power school. He graduated with honors and he said the extra sleep made a difference in his studies. The key is to get there and maintain

Comment by jeremy mcelroy on June 27, 2012 at 7:25pm

Well just tell him to start working out more and get that PRT passed. From there it won't take much for him to get E4. Tell him not to sweat it that much that he is still E3 right now, not really much of a money difference at this point.

Comment by Phillip Mitchell on June 27, 2012 at 7:07pm

Thanks for the answers guys, I haven't pestered him with alot of questions since this is his last week of A school and I will see him next week.  He said he was going to power school as E3, he moved to his new room already,  and doesn't seem overly concerned about the whole affair but he did say getting the crow was more complicated than just passing another PFT - so I'm confused.  Took me the better part of 2 years to make BM3, 40 years ago, and I so wanted to see that MM3 arm patch on him.  Any info to help me, when we have our talk next week, will be appreciated.   One thing at a time I guess, graduate A school and come home for 10 days and we will see.  Thanks guys.  I will pass on anything I find out.

Comment by William in Nashua on June 27, 2012 at 4:06pm

Mine is a student at BS prototype now, he is a ET3.  

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