Navy Nukes

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Comment by B'sNukemom&dad⚓️MM on June 2, 2014 at 4:56pm

KenH - San Diego is beautiful - we live about an hour from there.  I would love it if my son ended up there but won't get my hopes up! 

Enjoy your road trip to San Diego!

Comment by B'sNukemom&dad⚓️MM on June 2, 2014 at 4:51pm

Brian - our son passed and was very pleased with his score.  Like you said now it's "On-Crew" and the fun begins!  I'm looking forward to talking to him tonight to see how things are going.  I don't remember if he said they were starting on-crew today or next Monday.....

Comment by Michael Burrow on June 1, 2014 at 5:44am

When I went thru the school Class 8003. Power School was the hardest part by far. It remains to this day the hardest thing I've ever done. Prototype was easier. Being on submarines wasn't easy but was better than school. Even with a 90 min bus ride to the site every shift.

My son is in Phase 2 of A school now. Congratulations to all the kids who're graduating this week. 

Comment by KenH on May 31, 2014 at 10:40pm

Hi Ric

I probably won't repeat what you said, and let him experience it his own way. No matter how hard they work him and test him while underway, I think getting through the training program will be remembered as a major achievement.

Comment by Ric Pallson on May 31, 2014 at 4:55pm

"Needs of the Navy" will prevail.

When our (my) kid get to the fleet - no sunshine for a week at a stretch, and that's on a carrier.  All the training, and power school, and prototype will be past. They will be qualifying and re-qualifying and tested and re-tested for all the watches they can stand.

Sometimes you won't get a message from them for a long while. They can't say where they are, and maybe don't know.

Their shipmates will be totally dependent on them for making the ship move.

The training part has had all us parents (but our kids much more so) worrying and stressing. 

When our nuke kids get to the fleet, the difficult part has just started. They have to make the ship go. Absolutely, no errors, ever.

Bless  em all.

Comment by KenH on May 31, 2014 at 2:32pm

Correction: Japan first choice, east coast second

Comment by KenH on May 30, 2014 at 9:33pm

Amen, Paul.

Brian, my son made Japan his first choice, and I believe, the West coast his second.

Comment by Paul Collins on May 30, 2014 at 7:57pm

My sailor just graduated A school. Now on to Nuclear power school. May the Lord continue to bless him and all our military.

 

Comment by Brian E. Moore on May 30, 2014 at 5:03pm

B'sNukemom How did your son do? Amanda told me she passed. ......And so the fun begins

Comment by Brian E. Moore on May 30, 2014 at 5:02pm

@KenH Did your son put down west Coast on his wish list? My daughter wants the West coast but everyone is telling me to tell her to choose eat Coast if she wants the West

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