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Ben, The Mom's Post did not say, just said he is on standby to be pulled out to augment the Army in event of Hostilities in Korea. Just spoke to my son who is in Power School at Goose Creek, he has not heard anything. Right now more questions than answers
Bob Morrell, how long has the boy been at Goose Creek and what does that mean, he's being transferred to the Army???
JUST TALKED TO MY SON HE HAS ORALS WEDNESDAY. HE'S DONE. 30 DAYS OFF SOON. ERIC HAS DONE US PROUD.
My wife just saw a post on Navy Moms, where her son that is in MM Mate A School at Goose Creek (A Nuke) is getting pulled out to Augment the Army if North Korea Starts. Not Good!
Today I sent Matt a text telling him that we loved hime and were extremely proud of him, he is in his 3rd week of Power School. Got a reply from him later in the evening that it meant a lot, that he's been under a lot of stress.
Between Power School, studing and doing all the paper work and retriving documents to be accepted into the STA 21 program he has been up against it.
Did my best to re-assure him, think it helped.
Thank you all for providing your insights and your sailor's prototype experiences. I will provide as much support as possible to my sailor.
Hopefully he will have the drive, self-motivation, and perseverance to see it through.
Good News! Our son cleared medical at the THU in GL and will be shipping out to SC tomorrow. Now he can undertake the challenges you all have been describing.
@John- The entire Nuke pipeline is a long and difficult journey. I thought that Prototype would finally offer some relief from the stress of the classroom schooling. Prototype would be hands on work with real time operation of the plant, thus not so tedious and draining as all of the schooling had been for my son.
Wrong.
Prototype is designed to be even more challenging. Nothing along the way in Nukes gets easier. My son wanted to quit many times. He even had a room mate that worked very very hard and was washed out of Nukes with only two weeks left to finish prototype!
Getting the qualifications and the "checkouts" seemed to be a challenge. the insturctors are busy and your sailor is at the mercy of the time availability of the instructors for the "checkouts". That seemed to be a pretty big source of frustration for my son. Also, if something goes wrong in the plant. which happened twice during my sons time at the Ballston site, the delays can last weeks. During that time nuclear inspectors and top officials must make corrections and inspections of the corrections before prototype training can continue. Problems never happened during my sons watches, but even so the entire program comes to a complete stop and everyone must wait it out till the corrections are made. Again, this could take weeks and was very frustrating.
My son said that he orals at the end were meant to be tricky and you absolutley must know your stuff. They will try to trick you into making wrong decisions in your answers. But this is designed to make sure that you have mastered critical thinking and can handle the stress of making correct decisions on the spot.
Things really don't get any easier for the nukes, at least not for the ET's like my son, until they are fully qualified during their first deployment. After they get fully qualified while at sea things get significantly better for them on subsequent deployments.
Stay tough and realize that your support will be needed for a long time.
Dennis McMillen - I believe our sons are friends and have graduated together and are planning to room together at their next duty station. I sent you a friend request and would like to stay in touch and share any information we each receive to keep us up to date with their activities.
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