Pilot Training vs. Nuke School: Which One’s Harder?

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  • @DavidGarcia-zu3hl
    @DavidGarcia-zu3hl 27 днів тому +12

    When I saw the title I thought it was going to be a comparison between naval flight school and navy nuke school. I went thru the first one as a Marine. I think the second one I mentioned is just a tad more mentally rigorous than what you described.

    • @josephpadula2283
      @josephpadula2283 27 днів тому

      Same thoughts here !
      I thought it was a navy aviator that was in the aircraft carrier Captain pipeline that had to go to Nuc school
      As an “ old “ guy .

    • @HVACQualityAssurance
      @HVACQualityAssurance 25 днів тому +2

      I was a main propulsion engineer (conventional), and worked with people who passed 'nuke school' and those who washed out of it. The USN nuclear Power school is basically BUDS, but for nerds.
      It has the same wash-out rate as S.O. training- GB, SEAL, MARSOC, PJ, etc.

    • @DrewGalyen
      @DrewGalyen 24 дні тому

      Former Navy Nuke here - thought the same thing. I can't speak to BUDS or Pensacola, but NNPTC was no joke back in the day, by the time I went through the were already rumblings that it was lightening up, but it's probably still right up there.

    • @HVACQualityAssurance
      @HVACQualityAssurance 23 дні тому

      @@DrewGalyen MM, EM, or ET?

  • @juanvillota9097
    @juanvillota9097 24 дні тому +5

    I’m in Navy Flight school, close to finishing. It’s real rough, it’s fun, and I wouldn’t change it for the world…but it sucks sometimes

    • @Lucy-id3df
      @Lucy-id3df 21 день тому

      That’s cool man! What stage are you at? Do you find it’s the time crunch or the pressure or both? I just got selected for SNA

    • @juanvillota9097
      @juanvillota9097 20 днів тому

      @ are you in AirWarriors by chance? You can PM me there if you want, I’ll be happy to answer all questions you have

    • @Lucy-id3df
      @Lucy-id3df 19 днів тому

      @ yes I am! What’s your handle?

    • @juanvillota9097
      @juanvillota9097 19 днів тому

      @
      Villo0692

    • @DrChim_Richels
      @DrChim_Richels 15 днів тому

      You should dor if you need affirmation from UA-cam commenters

  • @PermanentExile
    @PermanentExile 24 дні тому +7

    Some folks in the comments sections are mixing two different types of “nuke school.” There are missileers (or equivalent) who are responsible for nuclear weapons, and there is the Naval Nuclear Power Program (which starts with “nuke school”), but that is about nuclear reactors for power and not nuclear weapons.

    • @keinaanabdi6821
      @keinaanabdi6821 18 днів тому +2

      The reactor guys are actually engineers, they hire people out of engineering schools and offer them a two year master’s in nuclear engineering but the airforce guys he’s talking about are not engineers and they’re only job is to learn the protocols for maintaining nuclear missiles and firing them if we come to that.

  • @stevefowler2112
    @stevefowler2112 24 дні тому +1

    I'm a recently retired Aerospace/Nuclear Engineer with a large American defense contractor's Fleet Ballistics Missile company, so I have more than a passing knowledge of all things aero and nuclear. Back in the day one of my golfing/drinking/skirt chasing buddies was a former A.F. Nuke Missile operator...he is a very cool dude but definitely not a straight-laced arrow either.

  • @scottgreer2700
    @scottgreer2700 24 дні тому +2

    I knew a nuke guy at Lowry AFB that lost his security clearance and kicked out of nuke school over a book he checked out of the base library.

  • @adamsolomon9353
    @adamsolomon9353 18 днів тому +2

    I knew you weren't talking about Navy Nuke school at 0:24

  • @panteliskaramailis1287
    @panteliskaramailis1287 27 днів тому +2

    03:48 everyday spy telling us he has taken an undercover role

  • @Warrior99980
    @Warrior99980 24 дні тому

    I heard that the rate of cancer among missileers is on the high side. Is that true?

  • @RaymondMQuick
    @RaymondMQuick 25 днів тому

    Quite a difference from my 4 years pulling a total of 300 24 hour alerts in Montana. Things change.

    • @DavidJones-hr9bn
      @DavidJones-hr9bn 25 днів тому +1

      Not a whole lot! You averaged a little over one in five days underground, he averaged one in six with no Cold War adversary to worry about!

    • @francismoran1230
      @francismoran1230 15 днів тому

      But, that was the job; plus, the travel time to the silo.

  • @VOLTRIZZZLE
    @VOLTRIZZZLE 27 днів тому

    Wow. Glad I went to Pensacola!

  • @deleteduser3749
    @deleteduser3749 28 днів тому +1

    Makes me wish I didn't say no...

  • @jeff122670
    @jeff122670 24 дні тому

    Until you get to the Wing and start doing monthly T1 and T3/4 classes…. And dealing with ICBMs. Yeah, no pressure….

  • @KarlMarch-z6k
    @KarlMarch-z6k 28 днів тому

    Heartbreaking

  • @donfrance3
    @donfrance3 28 днів тому +6

    i like this guy

    • @Misslucyli
      @Misslucyli 28 днів тому +1

      Interesting

    • @Okami404
      @Okami404 28 днів тому +1

      Same 🦢✨🦜

    • @ChocoLater1
      @ChocoLater1 28 днів тому +4

      He doesn't like you 😂

    • @Okami404
      @Okami404 28 днів тому

      @@Misslucyli 🦢✨🐦

    • @Okami404
      @Okami404 28 днів тому

      @@ChocoLater1 I believe you 🐧

  • @brockjennings
    @brockjennings 28 днів тому

    So many hours of REACT simulator training at Vandenberg.

  • @JUSTINFARRAR-i4p
    @JUSTINFARRAR-i4p 21 день тому

    Pilot jus got have the hours that it you got the hours and you can take off and land in all of the instruments on the panels it's really not that bad and most of the stuff is done with with set up as a drone nowadays so you're not even actually in the aircraft

  • @johnandrobinmccoy8305
    @johnandrobinmccoy8305 27 днів тому +3

    So this guy went to flight school? Did he flunk out?

    • @tafan321
      @tafan321 27 днів тому +3

      I'm confused as well since every other podcast he's on he's a CIA operator.

    • @marrg-n5r
      @marrg-n5r 26 днів тому +4

      Air force academy -> nuclear officer -> cia -> cvs corporate -> private intelligence contractor-> podcast guy/ entrepreneur

    • @lukebelvin4900
      @lukebelvin4900 26 днів тому +3

      @@marrg-n5r flunked flight school somewhere in there

  • @yyyfffff33333
    @yyyfffff33333 28 днів тому +3

    You always think everyone wants to be a pilot . Nice hearing someone say that it wasn't for him .

    • @lukebelvin4900
      @lukebelvin4900 26 днів тому +2

      I'm a pilot and it is an insane amount of information to be tested on.

    • @IlPinnacolo
      @IlPinnacolo 25 днів тому

      One thing that makes being a pilot cool is that not everyone can do it. I enjoy it but I have been plane obsessed since childhood. If you just think it sounds "cool", you won't have the drive to push through the challenges.

  • @warlockpaladin2261
    @warlockpaladin2261 27 днів тому

    That was fun.

  • @TheVigilantEye77
    @TheVigilantEye77 25 днів тому

    Hey , LowBar !

  • @MyBelch
    @MyBelch 25 днів тому +5

    This should be retitled, "The difficulties in reconciling a privileged upbringing with pervasive grievance culture."
    Dude's all over the place.

  • @johnandrobinmccoy8305
    @johnandrobinmccoy8305 7 днів тому

    Bottom line. Working hard in flight school was too demanding, so he liked "nuke" school so it was easy and more fun. This guy wasn't a good fit to be a military officer, glad he is no longer in uniform. Slacker.

  • @kalaakaalam9461
    @kalaakaalam9461 22 дні тому

    Yes, ofcourse I indeed give him all my nuclear power information to this guy. He is cashing in that. Thanks bro. I am happy that you are making a living out of my life. He is so poor I thought I will help him.

  • @cab6273
    @cab6273 22 дні тому

    The Air Force actually calls it “Nuke School”?

    • @andrew9360
      @andrew9360 22 дні тому +2

      Thought he was talking about Navy nuke school for a sec.

    • @scootertooter6874
      @scootertooter6874 18 днів тому +1

      In my day, it was called "IQT" - Initial Qualification Training.

  • @lifesabeach5405
    @lifesabeach5405 25 днів тому +1

    For an ex CIA, he talks a lot

  • @westEOD
    @westEOD 26 днів тому +1

    **

  • @Darkmouse20001
    @Darkmouse20001 25 днів тому +4

    No one knows if the UK has nukes?! I dont think this guy knows what hes talkikg about. Also, I guarantee learning to fly is a lot more fun than learning how to sit in a bunker!

    • @DavidJones-hr9bn
      @DavidJones-hr9bn 25 днів тому

      You couldn’t pay some people enough to fly, let alone learn to fly! Makes no sense to me, but different folks have different aptitudes.

    • @Darkmouse20001
      @Darkmouse20001 25 днів тому +1

      @DavidJones-hr9bn That is true, but to claim that learning to fly is no fun........it's awesome! I guess it might suck if someone is no good at it though.

  • @lgchris1
    @lgchris1 18 днів тому

    bs

  • @tommynikon2283
    @tommynikon2283 21 день тому

    I’m suggesting he didn’t have “the right stuff”….the USAF weeds out the chaff, and ONLY Academy grads get pilot slots/fighters. Everyone else gets bombers or missiles. 😂

  • @tiomoidofangle102
    @tiomoidofangle102 25 днів тому +12

    Just looking at him, I'd say that Air Force is well rid of this 'officer'.

    • @jacobhope6164
      @jacobhope6164 24 дні тому +12

      Your comment makes you sound unintelligent.

    • @andrewgould8924
      @andrewgould8924 23 дні тому

      It's not even his looks, every video I have seen, he comes off bad. Dude said he was going to ditch America when it gets bad.

    • @andrew9360
      @andrew9360 22 дні тому +6

      Officers are regular people. More at 11.

    • @travishouse5988
      @travishouse5988 21 день тому +8

      Also, this gentleman continued to serve his country as a CIA Operative after his Military Service…

    • @cefb8923
      @cefb8923 13 днів тому

      When people see people in the Army and Navy during the Civil War had beards... AHHHHHHH DIRT BAGGG!

  • @sttpodcast8379
    @sttpodcast8379 27 днів тому