Navy Nukes

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Comment by jeremy mcelroy on May 9, 2012 at 9:42pm

downtown area with all the shops is pretty nice to walk through

Comment by Douglas H on May 9, 2012 at 9:20pm

Just booked flights and hotel for NPS grad on 25 May!  Truly excited to see my MM Sailor, his sweet GF and explore Charleston.  Any "must see" recommendations? 

Comment by KenH on May 8, 2012 at 9:02pm

Mine's doing cleanup duty too. His roommate has been here about 4 months, which will be a big help for him. He's also hooked up with other ET's from boot camp, so they're anxious to get started.

Comment by mlongst on May 7, 2012 at 7:25am

My son hasn't classed up yet either.  Waiting for more  to show up.  Probably classing up next week.   About half of those waiting classed up this week with sailors who had been there a few weeks.. Doing cleanup duty now and getting familiar with surroundings.

Comment by KenH on May 5, 2012 at 5:04pm

He still hasn't started school; says he's getting a few briefs, standing watch, out on Liberty now.

Comment by mlongst on May 3, 2012 at 9:47am

My son ( MM ) arrived in GC Sunday.  Has a roomate that has been there about 5 weeks.  This helps him  to get acquainted with procedures and a heads up on whats in store.

Comment by KenH on April 30, 2012 at 7:56pm

My son (ET) arrived at GC on Saturday, bought a laptop, made some friends from boot camp, getting settled, preparing for a "big inspection".

Waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Comment by Ric Pallson on April 29, 2012 at 7:14pm

Totally agree - most Nuke washouts wash out by being stupid.

Not academically stupid -- just juvenile stupid.

Us dads can help with that -- it's a dad's job to teach our kids the difference between what's just fun and what is really stupid - what we called in my day a CLM -- career limiting move.

As for MM A school being easy -- yeah "this is a wrench -- this the the turbine reduction gear - nothing in your pockets - duct tape all pockets - whoever loses anything in this mechanism will cost the Navy 230 million - secure all tools."

Support your Sailor.

Comment by jeremy mcelroy on April 29, 2012 at 9:37am

A school for an MM is 3 months- pretty much this is a hammer/this is a wrench kinda thing. It is 6 months for an ET or EM and they take the same classes up to the last one where they each take a different class.

Most of the people that don't make it through aren't actually from failing out academically. Lots of people who get in trouble for alcohol related incidents, showing a don't give a crap factor where they are always showing up late or not doing what they are supposed to be doing.

Comment by Ric Pallson on April 28, 2012 at 11:51pm

Seems that A-school is more difficult for the ET's also twice as long.

My daughter was MM and she said A-school was easy-peasy but what William posted shows it's much harder for ET A-school.

Daughter is on second deploy now, was top MM honorman way back at power school grad.  Now that ancient history means nothing. They make the ship move. Always. That's their job and they do it.

About ways to blow it in training -- academic -- get sleep, get help  theres lots of help offered by NAVY  and more if your trainee has managed to make some friends.

Other way to blow it in training is to slack off, do alcohol,drugs, fail to support your shipmates or CoC.

Some of the training failures are recoverable -- at my daughters Power School grad ceremony there were two trainees who were listed on the printed program as E-2. Busted two paygrades and still graduated Power Shool.

No way to go -- but it's possible to recover.

Advice to Sailors in the Nuke program --

Be a mensch - don't be stupid - work hard - ask for the help you deserve - give the help you can.

Your classmates will be your shipmates - the training stress is designed to make the trainee competent - but also to teach them who to trust

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