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Comment by Douglas H on September 1, 2012 at 10:06am

Nuke Son finally received orders for Prototype, back to GC.  Glad to hear that because Dad likes Charleston!  Also the pipeline seems a bit shorter now at ~4 months.  He was tired of shredding papers and cleaning up at Kings Bay, they did get a little training but not as much as I would have hoped.  New challenges and new opportunities!

Comment by NukeDad on August 29, 2012 at 10:29pm

Nuke Son is coming home for a 4 day Labor Day holiday half way through Power School...can not wait to see him...a wife, a sister -in-law, 2 kids, a grandma and a dog to greet him...man this is good!!

Comment by KTR on August 29, 2012 at 2:09pm

Mine graduated A school 20 JUL 12.  He enlisted DEP 3 days before HS graduation, PIR'ed 30 MAR 12. He hated the rote memorization but did well just by focusing on classes and getting help when needed.  He is home for a week, very satisfied and looking forward to getting back and getting through.  

Comment by mlongst on August 29, 2012 at 1:54pm

My Nuke just finished A school at GC.  He's 24 and had some college but was out of the "study" mode.  He's very goodwith the math and science part but his weakness was the hands on tools, guages, etc.

He's in a very tight knit class and  in asmaller group of 4 or 5 sailors who work well together.  They would try to get study time together and help each other out in  the areas they needed help in. The hands on guys would help the math geeks and vice versa.  The key was the teamwork.  They all got through with pretty darn good grades.  Now they're getting set for power school in a few weeks and plan on continuing their teamwork.  All hands on deck.

 

Comment by Jonathan Cooper on August 29, 2012 at 11:03am

This is great advise and also show how we all pull together to help our sailors. I just hope my sons class gets off order quiet so they can help each other at study time.

Comment by Chris B. on August 29, 2012 at 8:23am

My son went to college at The Citadel right after completing the pipeline (+SPU).  He said going to college is easy compared to the pipeline.  My son is no bookworm, but has very good grades thanks to the skills he learned in Goose Creek/Ballston Spa.   

Comment by proud dad Nuke sailor on August 29, 2012 at 6:54am

I remember the call from my son saying he was a sailor after the dc trainer, you could hear the pride in his voice. Then after my son made it thru prototype he had a picture of him and his class that made it thru, my son told me he was more proud to be in that picture than any graduateing picture in his life.   Just remember God gave us all different gifts they are all great gifts and we all have to work togeather.  The most important thing you can comunicate to your sailor is for them to do there best and that you are proud of them unconditionaly. Not everyone will make it thru the nuke program but at the end of the day all of our sailors have something to bring to the table. Team work is an important part.

Comment by KS Dad on August 28, 2012 at 10:56pm

My son completed Nuke school in the spring of 2011. He went through what several of you have already voiced regarding the pressures of school. I asked him what the Navy had given him that he highly valued. His response was "the Navy taught me how to study and to know that there isn't anything I can't get through when I go to college."

He went from Nuke school, a short few days at home, then a flight around the world to Bahrain and landed on the Ronald Reagan land via COD. The RR was deployed and flying missions along with the Vinson. Now he's in drydock in Bremerton and boredom is his main enemy. He's wanting to go back on deployment to complete the rest of his quals. No quals,  no promotion so that's frustrating him too. 

Comment by Jonathan Cooper on August 28, 2012 at 5:51pm

Thanks we had a long talk with him last night.  He is 23 and a few years past his last Math class.  But we told him he could do it.  That is why he was selected.  We keep the encouragement but they don't have a whole lot of time to call etc.  He has voluntarily given up other distractions so that is a major accomplishment.  He is focusing on the job at hand.

Comment by proud dad Nuke sailor on August 28, 2012 at 4:39pm

My son made it thru the pipeline. There will be many more challenges ahead. I recently went on a tiger with my son. The ship came to port after being deployed for eight months. Everyone was ready to get off of the ship, there was a big celibration familys were waiting for many of the sailors. I was on the ship with my son, My son could not leave the ship until the reactor had been shut down. It ended up being three hours after everyone else had got off the ship. There will be many more chalenges in front of your son. He has to keep the right head about it.

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