Becoming a U.S. Navy Nuke
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Nuclear Machinist's Mate Alicia Ferrell relates her firsthand experiences about becoming a Navy Nuke and working on nuclear reactors. Navy Nukes harness the power of the atom to move aircraft carriers and submarines, which are among the most important assets in the Navy.
I am currently a fifth year Electrical Engineering Major, ( yes it can take that long for a BS in EE), and when I feel my back against the wall with 14 and 15 hour days, including long hours in the lab, preparation for presentations, heavy research for homework assignments, and of course studying for midterms and finals, I think back on my time in Nuclear Power School. Suddenly my life doesn't seem so bad. :)
9-5... I never saw a 9 o'clock morning in my Navy life...
Yeah, its more like 12 hour shifts during the various schools. Can't speak for fleet hours yet.
Knowledge, integrity, shift work.
@@eggsaladsandwhiches rogers?
This in no way conveys the full extent of the life of a Nuke. Especially not sub life. Your division will be between 9-15 people on a sub. As an EM1, I was constantly working. Most of my career was 60+ hours a week. You will have no life if something breaks.
You stand duty every 3 days. This means that you are on the sub from 7:45am to 5pm the next day. Then you have a normal workday and the cycle repeats.
Naval Reactors will constantly pressure the engine room. If your engine room falls from grace, may God have mercy on you.
Also, this does not convey how intense the power school training is. My BS in Electrical Engineering I got after the Navy was easier than P-School.
i am 18 years old and i just got a 95 on my asvab, and a 263 in the nuke portion! im VERY excited to start training, but im stuck in MEPS for the next month or 2!
+Dylan Thompson Congrats on your ASVAB score. You should be really proud of yourself.
+Dylan Thompson DONT DO IT!!!
Dylan Thompson The Navy offers higher education options so you can obtain your bachelor's degree (or master's even).
+America's Navy what about high school
+America's Navy diploma
Class 8105; submarine nuke electrician....you get what you put in to it....haven't made less than 100K/year since 2000.
+iamanubus2 In fact, haven't made less than 200K/year since 2005.
+iamanubus2 I have a question: What are the civilian job opportunities for former Navy Nukes? And if you don't mind me asking, what is your current job? Thanks in advance.
+Anthony Nguyen send me your e-mail address and I will send you my resume for you to see what I have done since 1988 when I left the Navy. I have spent almost all of my career in the Department of Energy nuclear weapons and legacy waste industry.
iamanubus2 AnthonyNguyen712@gmail.com is where you can contact me.
I'm interested in the Navy's nuclear field, so any advice would be welcome. Thanks again.
+iamanubus2 Did you go enlisted or officer? This is my biggest decision right now.
2+4= 6. The reserve commitment is inactive reserves. No drilling, no active duties.
Aight I watched this before I joined the navy and lemme run you through the pipeline now that I've finished:
you go to boot camp, if you get through and you're not medically disqualified (one guy had a nuke contract and then he got to boot camp and was disqualified because somehow he passed a colorblind test but ended up being colorblind) then you go to nuke A school, its NOT 9-5 its more like 0530-1500 or 1630 (hours are pretty much the same for Power school) then in A school you have mandatory study hours and don't even get me started on A school homework (EMN btw) so you'll start on 4 hours and after a few weeks your SLPO will look at how you're doing and can give you reduced hours. If you make it through A school you go to power school, power school is more lenient when it comes to study hours (for example the electricians didn't have mandatory study hours every day you just had mandatory study hours for the week so if you did 7 hours over the week and you have a mandatory 12 for the week then you go in on the weekend and make up the 5 hours.) DO NOT SHORT YOUR HOURS OR YOU WILL GET SHAFTED in some way. (usually extra hours on top of your 12 hours) Power school isn't too bad, maybe for MMs cause their A school is only 3 months compared to EMs or ETs which is 6, but its not as bad. Once you get to Prototype you'll think "its gotta get easier from here" it doesn't, in my opinion prototype was a little harder just cause you have to study stuff on your own and then get signatures in your qualification and that's probably the hardest part. Prototype is 12 hour rotating shift work. once you're qualified in rate you go to the fleet, idk much about that yet cause im on my way there but thats the training pipeline in a nutshell. quick way to get masted or kicked out of the nuke pipeline or navy? 1) lying 2) drinking underage 3) drugs 4) just being a shitty person and being bad at your job. The pipeline is stressful but you're literally being paid to sit and study so at least perform better than the minimum needed to pass.
izayerr 's dope day
@Bob Smithereens only physical fitness parts are different. As for schooling they were the same for me. I got out in 09.
When I was reading it she would say the job the same time as you lol 🤣😭
It gets better after ORSE....
@@nlingrel Depends on your definition of "better"..
I am not out of the military and working in the corporate world. The Navy prepares you best for the civilian world. Next up is the Coast Guard, then Airforce. I don't meet many former Marines in the corporate world. Neither Army nor Marine training translates well when it comes to the corporate world. My Marine and Army friends all seem to be working as bus drivers, security guards and so forth. Nothing wrong with that type of work. It's just an observation ...
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BZ Alicia! What a bright, well spoken young woman. I was a nuc on subs from 73 to 79. We didn't have many of our credits transfer to college credits back then. I understand that ODU in Norfolk has a great program that allows credit transfer. I went there and got my BSME after I got out. Great job, sailor!
I am a Retired 24 Year US Navy Submariner. Yes, I was a "F'ing Nuke" in the parlance.
I think the presentation was well done and some of the posted criticisms below are way off the mark and seem to originate with some males that seem threatened. The the video describes her off-time activities she describes the situation as not being too different from a regular 9 to 5 job. She takes crap below.
IN PORT, we generally had the Duty Every Third Day. The other two days were off if on the weekend or 7:30 - 4:00 and then off. Have no misunderstanding, if something was broken or otherwise required additional people THAT TOOK PRECEDENCE.
Being a F'ing Nuke is not for everyone, any more than being a Submariner is not for everyone! The young woman presented herself well and made a good pitch to help get more recruits. Did she paint a sometimes rosy picture? Yes. I have to wonder if some of the nonsense below would have been posted had she been a male!
Nice analysis. My recruiter asked if i was interested in being a submariner(in 1986)and i said NO! I'm an airdale through and through. Did 2 Westpacs in the Gator Navy..Marines everywhere!
i'm trying to become an et for nukes in the navy, but i've been painted an alr picture from my recruiter however i'm uncertain of some details like hours worked and how it's like on port and deployed, any advice will be greatly appreciated! (not going sub, i'm smart not crazy)
I'm so glad you have top comment
Navy Nuke ET (Class 9836T; last A-school class in Orlando) - did Power School in Charleston (then a brand new facility), and NPTU in Ballston Spa (S8G). Then four years at sea on CVN-71. It's funny seeing videos like this surface these days, back when I joined there was nothing like this to even give me a hint at what I was getting myself into.
It's an exceedingly hard job in the most stressful job field in the world that pays very little while you are in, so if you are disciplined with your money and get scholarships going to college or trade schools and starting your civilian career sooner is better in the long run, BUT if are not able to get many scholarships (ie. not as smart or disciplined) and you want to have them pay you for your education, get some experience as a technician, and THEN go civilian side (since that's where the money is for nukes), then you will find yourself with fast money (6 years being fast here), little to no debt, and on the path to early retirement.
So, the somewhat longer, far less stressful path (with much less chance of being masted for stupidity on your part or your buddy's.) go civilian and plan ahead. If instead you want almost all of you work and stress in life frontloaded into 6 years so the rest of your life can be much easier (assuming you don't get roped into a 2nd sea tour), then go nuke.
Unfortunately, this is as much as I can write right now as I need to answer the demands of my own choices on the matter.
I was a Navy ET for 6 years. She is telling the truth. The nuke program is top notch. You will work with some of the smartest people in the military. Actually just about all Navy schools will drop you if you don't cut it. It's a honor to make it thru an A school. So yes, you can quit school but nobody likes quitters. If you get dropped or quit, it's up to the Navy where they place you. Nuke school is hard, hard, hard so be ready. I am talking physics, electronics, chemistry
1. She likes to shop in her free time? That's amazing for her. Because nobody in Reactor on my boat had "free time"
2. 9 - 5?! Try 6 - 6 with while being on 3 section duty.
3. Depending on how long you are pulling into a port you are lucky if you get to spend 1/2 the time exploring and such as the rest of the boat.
4. Being a nuke is the hardest thing I have ever done and parts of it suck so bad that you will wonder why on god's green earth did you ever agree to do it. But when I got out after my 6 years (as a nuke ET) I got job offers starting at $31/hr with no prior experience. So as much as it sucks, its almost impossible to find something that will set you up for a better future.
Lol.. The objective of this video is to try and get people into the job not to scare them off. So if that means not telling ALL of what happens or simply sugar coating whats asked of you in that position. Thats what is going to happen. But, appreciate you giving your experience and input about that position.
lol im with you, i was a hull technician/fire fighter and theres no 9-5 working hours. Sometimes you dont even get to go home if something has to be done or repaired! work is "never" over for some rates!
Afton Cromwell Duty section < Writing essays in college.
+Afton Cromwell How soon was it that you got job offers after you got out?
Maybe she’s just really smart lol
I was in the Nuclear Navy from 82 till 91, I have been in the Civilian Nuclear world since 92, (10 Frigging months unemployed... my ultimate shame). For the Past 26 years I have been in the Civilian Nuclear Power World. The first thing... Dramatically bigger plants...When you get hired as an ex Navy Nuke OR an Operator from another Civilian Plant... It is dramatically easier for you to qualify. About a year ago.. One of the Nubs on our Crew graduated from his University with a Masters Degree in Nuclear Physics... (Good Guy).... he went through all the usual phases we all went through when we became Nukes in the Navy or the Civilian world...He was MAN enough to admit..."My most Humbling Point in my Life was when I started working as an Operator at our Plant" He expected the Navy Guys To be Moron Knuckle Dragging Low Foreheads...(that is what the University taught). Instead he was shocked at the Knowledge level and Difficulty of being an Operator in a Nuclear Power Plant. (He is a Great Operator now.!, Welcome Aboard!).
I’m not big on studying, i’m not really into researching homework and writing essays either(i’m a multiple questions guy)...At first, the big bucks made me consider becoming a nuke, but after looking more into it i’ve learned that 1) Nukes have the longest work times/hours(they also have this thing called “rotations”
2)They barely get any sleep 3) They barely get to go out on deck 4) Most of them hates their job 5) The stuff that you go through before actually becoming one😂-A school-Power school-Prototype...
Okay so what did you end up doing?
@@redacted9990 Im about to graduate Power school lmaoo 🤦♂️
Do you like it now?
@@Jon-zy8zd bro... 💀
You don't hate it right? I plan to do Nuke as well. Which nuke rate are you? There aren't any English classes, right?
@@American_2 lmao English classes
“Our side of working hours which is generally 9-5” -_-
HEY! I'm shipping out April 8th. Waiting way too long! :P
I'm so much more confident with this. the schooling seems a lot more fitting, a regular nuclear engineer has like 4 years of physics but this seems a lot more cut and dry like it's a need to know basis
My Job is a Mechanist Mate (MM) does this apply to me. I leave for boot camp on March 5th???
Take it from someone who has done it, school never last that long. I was done in under 15 months with all the program for Nuke Machinists Mate. and it is only three months longer for ET's or EM's.
I loved running and working on electron beams.
@mykeith97 You sign up knowing about as much or less than is available in this video, and then you find out what you got yourself into later. Lots of people make decisions they regret. That is why the Navy has you sign a contract when you join, and then they don't let you give up your paycheck and go home just because you don't like it. Otherwise there would be precious few sailors on ships.
My ASVAB Nuke score was only 226. I'm already in DEP, but can I retake the ASVAB to get Nuke?
+LifeNovice Talk to your Recruiter about re-taking your ASVAB
any nukes hear that can answer some questions? i'm thinking of enlisting
Mostly mopping the deck, painting, and small valve maintenance
+OSUHARDING1 - A TECHNIC EXPERIENCE
hahahaha, you forgot studying and making coffee ;)
OSUHARDING1 - A TECHNIC EXPERIENCE lol you think that's what they do your out of your mind if they weren't they so good bye to the ship
"mopping?" You mean "swabbing?"
I went to MEPS to day and took the NAPT (Nuclear Power test) and passed!! So hopefully the "Nuke Shop" as I'm told will accept me into the program!! I can't wait!
Update: I was accepted into the Nuclear Power Program!!!!! I'm shipping out to boot camp January 13th and couldn't be more excited!!!!
***** Too late to save ya, so I'll just give a bit of advice: Try to be an ELT, fewer people understand your job so fewer people crap on you all day. Chiefs from other rates can never be sure if you are busy or not. Also, you get to stand watch in AC.
it took three, THREE nuke recruiters and an aviation recruiter to get me to say NUKE.
Miles Kull how is it?
How's it going as a nuke? I'm curious as I may enlist as one
@zauberlichneo very well spoken, well except that part about ELTs being the best nukes, sry had to put that out there, u know every body loves the electricians
1:01 not true you can take the asvab and test out aka go alpha, the secondary test is used to go bravo.
Sean Morin This is correct. I just signed my Nuke contract and didn't have to take the qualifying test. I'm guessing the minimum ASVAB score to waive the NAPT changes with the needs of the Navy (depending on how many people they are looking to recruit for nuclear). But I believe my recruiter told me the minimum ASVAB to skip the NAPT was 90 or 92.
No you have to have a nice score of 235 or greater and a ell score of 245 or greater the total score is just that
ORSE was torture, mainly because the CO and EO were sweating, and sweat runs downhill.
NICE!
I am a EM in the DEP. I heard that there is a C School for EM which is Nuclear. How do I qualify to get into C school?
I hope you get this message before it is too late. If you aren't prepared to teach yourself don't do it. Also there is "A" school, power school, and prototype. You will be there for the longest 18 months of your entire life. Unless you live and breath in a classroom that is.
im taking my ASVAB this wednsday, im so nervous.
how did it go?
MM1(SW)/E-6 nuke 87'-93' U.S.S. Truxtun (CGN-35)
Ridiculously difficult, like insane level....but you really do end up knowing your shit about reactors.
To chrlbrwn2, yes she is a REAL MM, in fact i met her as a recruiter earlier in 2011 for a brief before came. Yes, i agree, not an 8 hour work day, especially if you are hard working. For some, barely getting by gets you nice off time, or for those with amazing learning skills can have a shorter day as well. I'm usually home after 12 hours, on normal days, and anywhere up to 15-18 hours on typical prior to examination days. I'm an EM3 3 weeks from graduating at NNPTC Power School.
@mykeith97 The draft isn't active right now. Nobody is forced to join the Military. The only way the draft might get reactivated is if we, the U.S keep getting involved in everything.
Same here march 19 ship date.
I have a historical question about Nuclear Rates.
When I served, there were 3 nuclear rates. MM, EM, and ET.
However, were there ever Navy Nuclear IC'men back in the 1970's?
ie. Were there ever "Internal Communications" Nuclear Engineers?
Condor1970 I don't believe so. ET's would have covered any work an IC man would.
There WERE IC Nucs... I was in in the mid 80's, and there were still a few that hadn't cross rated to EM by that time, but they all had by 1990...
There were certainly Nuke ICs in the 1960s and 1970s. Part of E Division.
The IC types were absorbed into EM division shortly after I entered the fleet (7907). The joke was ICFN stood for I Can't Fix Nothing.
holy crap!!! is one of the recruiter in the station i got recruited in. very smart but she made study too complicated in during DEP meeting.
It gets you almost to an associates once you finish all of it. They have a list of the universities which accept them.
@LaVitaMusic8557 nope, you do not have Nuclear rating mate. So, it doesn't apply to you. But I think what is common in both MM and MMN is that in both you do a lot of heavy work.
As a navy nuke et currently in a-school I can say it's tough, fast paced but in the end it's well worth it.
Hey Decarlo
The nuke field actually is the only one i know where you can quit the pipeline at any time. All you have to do is tell them you're stressed out. I can't remember how many people i knew who got out of it and just re-rated or went undesignated for that very reason.
There's a reason for that. Nukes have the highest suicide rate in the entire military.
@@nathanschubert3048 what is the suicide rate for navy nukes?
Lucky, I have to wait til Sep. 15
8 hour days? What nuke school was she ? I wasn't a Mando commando ( command ordered additional after hours study time) and my days were 12+. Let's not forget the minor facts that nukes ae first in the boat and last off the boat
I got a 99 overall asvab, and a 273 nuc. why is everybody saying this is a bad idea? it sounds really nice.
I was in the last power school class in Orlando. 9806. God, that was a shitty 6 months. I don't think about all the time in class, the giant locks, signing in/out of my locker. But I do remember it. Weekends spent on TGOs, sigh... It is nice to be able to say you were an electrician mate working on a reactor.
It's an exceedingly hard job in the most stressful job field in the world that pays very little while you are in, so if you are disciplined with your money and get scholarships going to college or trade schools and starting your civilian career sooner is better in the long run, BUT if are not able to get many scholarships (ie. not as smart or disciplined) and you want to have them pay you for your education, get some experience as a technician, and THEN go civilian side (since that's where the money is for nukes), then you will find yourself with fast money (6 years being fast here), little to no debt, and on the path to early retirement.
So, the somewhat longer, far less stressful path (with much less chance of being masted for stupidity on your part or your buddie's.) go civilian and plan ahead. If instead you want almost all of you work and stress in life frontloaded into 6 years so the rest of your life can be much easier (assuming you don't get roped into a 2nd sea tour) , then go nuke.
Unfortunately this is as much as i can write right now as i need to answer the demands of my own choices on the matter.
very impressive young lady!!!!
@ Danley144, Actually going the the US naval academy will NOT give you the skills or the specialty. The graduates of the US naval academy who decide on nuclear power as their specialty MUST also undergo the rigors of Naval Nuclear Power School and Prototype once approved to pursue that specialty. I graduated from the naval nuclear pipeline as a Reactor operator ( read Nuke ET). class 9304
Some of her information is incorrect. Not everyone takes the entrance exam, some people like myself scored high enough on the ASVAB to skip the exam
Oh for advice on the training pipeline, don't be lazy, put in the effort, don't be afraid to sacrifice a big portion of your weekend, don't screw over your class/roommates, oh and excellent physical condition will get you PT vols, which in turn, gives you more study time => shorter day. I don't think the curriculum is that difficult, its the extra non-academic work that amplifies the difficulty. BUT, my chief (EMC) instructor, breaks 6 figures out at sea soooo.... yeah
It doesn't lie, but leaves out a lot of inconvenient truths. Like ~5 years on a submarine standing 3 section duty where you go to work every 3rd day and don't come home until after work the next day, weekends included. Or ORSE workups. And of course the best type of nuc, the engineering laboratory technician. But on the bright side, you do get to walk around knowing that you are Rickover's chosen people, and innately better than coners/airdales.
MM1(SS)
A navy nuke guy lived as a tenant in my folks basement for a while. Humble guy, paid well. But HARD life. The stories he told me…wow. Respect.
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Many colleges with nuclear engineering/nuclear engineering technology degrees give credit for it. And nuclear school has 3 segments, each one lasting 6 months each (except for MMs, who have 2 segments of 6 months, and one of 3 months). And NNPTC students do anyone from 12-15 hours of school a day, 5 days a week for this entire time. Do the math and realize how much more work that they do than college students.
Got a request from my recruiter to go in as a Navy nuke looking for ETN can anyone give me some information about how their time was in the navy nuclear program?
You can request ET, or EM, or MM... but in the end it's the "needs of the Navy" roulette wheel that determines where you go... I have perfect on the ET and EM sections of my ASVAB, and missed 1 on the MM section... I requested ET, EM & MM in that order, and got MM...
Just curious, are ET and/or EM more desirable then MM? My son is considering enlisting, and scored 99 on ASVAB, and recruiter is telling him the only two jobs he can get are either the nuclear program or Crypto Tech.
The recruiter is not "entirely" truthful...
(Keep in mind, his/her job is to tell you what you want to hear, to get you
to enlist, and fill critical needs in the Navy)
I got a 93 on the ASVAB, and I was told I could have ANY rating (provided
there was openings in that field)
I wanted, from the most menial up to Nuclear or Crypto Tech (which now
includes Language Interpreter)
I got perfect on the ASVAB sections that deal with Electronics and
Electrician, and I missed ONE question on the Mechanical section...
I placed my preferences as ET, EM then MM (in that order)... the "Needs
of the Navy" made me an MM...
I was also top 10% in MM School, which was a separate school AFTER Boot
camp, BEFORE Nuc School when I served...
(I believe that the Nuclear "A" schools are now integrated with the actual
Nuc School now)
I joined in 1984, so your son's "mileage may vary"...
I also only got a 58 (out of 80) on the Nuclear "Pre-test" (which may not
exist any more, I don't know)
(you needed at least a 48 to get into the Nuclear program, and if you got
at least a 68, you went to an
"abbreviated" 3 week long Math and Physics "boot camp" between "A" School
and Power School, otherwise
with a 48-67 on the test you went to a 6 week Math and Physics "boot
camp"... This "boot camp" was
6-8 hours a day of lecture on Math (from Algebra 1 up to Pre-Calculus) and
Physics topics plus a guaranteed
minimum of 2-4 hours a day of "homework", 5 days a week... It fries
brains... it's like being fed from a fire hose...
Even this material was considered "classified information" and was not to
be taken from the Nuc School building,
so you did your homework in the building, not in your barracks room...
(this was when Nuc School was in Orlando, FL;
again, it might be different in Goose Creek, SC). Also, no matter what the
recruiters say about fantastic amounts of College Credit for
all this Math, Physics, and Nuclear Theory... my college gave me NOTHING,
because the Navy declared it "Classified
*Enlisted. And it's funny you say that, because nuclear officers have a role of sitting on their hands in the nuclear community. They try to touch the reactor controls and the Nukes have to tell them to go back to their paperwork. Enlisted get to do this job because it is technical. Officers aren't usually technical careers, they're management careers.
Sigh I remember those days. By the way coffee normally is not enough find a energy drink you like and plan on taking 2 a day for about a year.
@hereisthankappan u don't get the N on ur rating until u get through the pipeline, until then u have the same rate designator(MM, EM, ET) as the conventional folks
They really add an "N" on your rating now?
I'm so glad I GTFO in '91....
No "split tails" on subs, all guys. Smoking allowed everywhere but berthing, mess decks during meals, battery compartment and the reactor compartment.
8205/S8G, USS Narwhal, MTS 635 (plankowner)
Those that don't understand what the above means, don't reply.
Those that do understand, I want to hear from you.
"I'd like a six-egg omelette with everything and eight pieces of bacon!"
"Be up in a few!!!"
On submarines, there are two types of sailors (at least when I served 1972-1993). Forward pukes and f'ing nukes. May I ask, is that an aviation warfare specialist insignia you are wearing?
I figure she was on a "target" while a Nuke...
I heard they have women on subs now, but only officers. BAD IDEA!!!
Glad I GTFO in '91!!!!
I joined the Navy in 1974 (Yes, we used slide rules). At that time, if you signed a nuke contract at enlistment there was only a 3% chance (that's 3 out of 100 for the mathematically challenged) that you would make it through all the schools and qualify on a submarine. You lose a few in boot camp (Orlando, Fl), a bunch more at "A" school (Great Lakes, Il.), a whole bunch more at Nuclear Power School (I went to Mare Island, Ca.), and a bunch more at prototype training (A1W in the Arco, Idaho desert). I spent a total of 8 years in the service and spent a tour on two subs, USS Gato (SSN615)(Shellback)(SubQual)(Reactor Operator)(EngineeringWatchSupervisor) and USS Jacksonville (SSN699)(EDTPO)(RO)(EWS)(Plankowner)(RCLPO). There will be very little time off. On those rare occasions when you are in port, you will be on duty 24 hours, followed by a regular work day, followed by another regular work day. The only time off you will have is if your duty day is on a Friday and you are able to be off Saturday and Sunday. If there is any major evolutions going on, you will work 7 day a week shiftwork. The only satisfaction you have being a Navy nuke is knowing that you are better than anyone else.
Would you recommend it?
Lol its better than being mediocre and ended up homeless.
My son is in Chicago doing boot camp,
After that he goes to south Carolina to power school on his way to become a Navy Nuke....🇺🇸❤
HOOYAH ⚓️⚓️
@SheltonShenanigans me too
I was on vals the whole time and never spend more then 3 hours extra a week
Way to Nuke it out Choice989, I'm glad that you can count, but the enlistment mentioned is only taking into consideration the active duty status. If anyone has questions about Nuke school feel free to send me messages. I am an ET3, been in the Navy for well over a year and I am currently in Power school which is the 2nd of 3 training phases once you arrive to NNPTC.
March 2013! @Hnwrestling152, we may even see eachother in basic XD
My son just took his asvab and is about to head to basic then off to nuke school, I'm proud but sad, I'll miss my boy
He sounds like on who hates it, or potentially failed out. I can agree that a huge chunk of those people will annoy the shit out of you. Find a small group to hang with, and stick to it. It's a diverse community with every breed of people from your gamers, to auto junkies, to gym nuts. It is what you make it.
9-14 hour work days in school, depending on your grades
what they dont tell you is that nukes are the most razzed and usually the most annoying people in boot camp and what they dont realize is most dont give a damn to what you get for a reenlisment bonus
Well, being an astrophysicist must not be too mentally challenging if anyone can do it. Not many people want to be or can be USN Nukes. It still has the highest ASVAB score requirement out of any job in any branch of the U.S. military. I'm not going to go out and say that the ASVAB is hard, but I'm not going to say that Nuke School has up to 40% attrition rate because people find it too easy.
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@zippifymecapitan yep, true that.
i cut my hours for the week short by 15 minutes accidentally and my chief put me on 5/30's the next week.
anyone shipping oct 2012 as a nuke?
All nuke officers must attend the power school and prototype. Even the officers have a high attrition rate. Some can, some can't. It's up to the individual
I just joined as an ET nuke and Im honestly kinda worried
I was a "Nuke" when I enlisted as a MM in 1964. I soon came to the realization that I was nieve. I know of many guys who were smart enough to differentiate between the recruiters BS and reality.
Who else is shipping April 17 to bootcamp as a nuke?
@Keebs87
Lol, this video never really lies... but it doesn't say the whole truth. Just be wary of things that sound too good, and be ready to roll with the punches. Listen to what people tell you to do, but still think for yourself! Start off well, and it's not hard to maintain your momentum. Likewise, if you're a turd at the beginning, don't be surprised when you get flushed.
And know that the six years of hate you build up will disappear that day you finally separate :)
Well 25/4s are only if your having trouble with class.
18 months, now? They must be taking it more seriously. When I went through, I did about 8 months in ET A and C schools, then 6 months in classroom and 6 months in prototype, so the nuke part of it was 12 months. It was interesting, and more hours crammed into a shorter span than college, but I would say nothing above the 200 level college classes. Best of luck to you.
OK. "Nuclear Engineering Technology." I had to listen again to pick up on that. It's not an engineering degree, but a technology degree, which makes perfect sense.
You could also just go into the naval academy and get that mos.
@LaVitaMusic8557 2 questions: what was ur asvab? are u getting an enlistment bonus? nuclear field require a high asvab in the areas of math, physics and chemistry, also with recent economy issues a lot of rates are not getting bonuses or are getting smaller bonuses, if u are a nuke good luck, its a pain in the ass for 2 years, if not, conventional mechanics are some of the coolest guys on my sub, but every one of them is bat shit crazy, i'm a nuke EM btw
Hi just looking at this video since I'm becoming a nuke. Nowadays nukes have a $38,000 sign on bonus plus I'm getting $14,000 right after boot camp for shipping early. I'm also starting as an E3 going into boot camp. Everybody said nuclear is hard but I got a 95% on the asvab and took physics, Chem, and calc in high school. I was told by a nuke that it's not hard since they give u all the materials u need. Was wondering what your experience was and if u have any advice. Thank you!
love video
❤️❤️❤️
She forgot to mention all the backstabbing that goes on.
How the heck did she get 9 - 5 working hours?????
i hope i have the metal to be one ill try my hardest on the test and well see
You got this 💪💪
GO ARMY.
I am 16,
If the thumbnail was a nuke I would be severely confused
God bless the Nukes.
What college gives you credit for classes in nuke school? Nuke school is cram and jam, very specialized and narrowly focused. How does a six month course get you half way to a BS degree? This sounds overly optimistic to me. Anyway, good luck. You may need it.
Signed a nuke contract today
I hope you get a good rate
How are you doing now ?
One: Anyone else notice the obviously missing tongue piercing that was getting in the way of her talking? Two: She is not a real nuke mechanic, surface nuke mechanics only do half, if not less, that what is available to you on submarines. Three: She was chosen because she is a CCC, it is her job to sling bull. Four: "Eight hour class days" my ass, students are required at least 12 right now (I am currently an instructor). 9-5 working hours? I want her job. This week has been 4-1800 all week.
You go girl 👏
@LaVitaMusic8557 You're a conventional Machinist Mate bud. Nukes won't find out what rating they go into until they hit Basic, that's when the needs of the Navy meet their line scores.
I want to become a navy nuke. I started the recruitment process recently. I hope they accept me.
Bad idea.
@iamenjoi you mean you are going to be one, not one yet
Not true, I was an EM and now making 130K as an industrial electrician at a steel mill.
david cain when did you leave the navy and how long did it take you to make 130K a year
david cain can I contact you because I’m considering being a navy nuke but I’ve heard some mixed views about it