swansont Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 i am. swansont' date=' i know thats not how it is pronounced. it is a homer simpson quote. Nucular; It's pronounced nucular. I know. Just remember to safen up. Be safer! If you're joining out of high school, then you are not technically going to be a nuclear propulsion officer, you will be enlisted. You'll go to basic, then to nuclear field "A" school, nuke school and then prototype (unless they've gone and changed the whole training process) A high ASVAB probably means you are in line to be in the Electronics Technition rate, and be a Reactor Operator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obnoxious Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 Good luck to you Couldn't work for the armed forces myself. Far too left wing You flower-loving no good hippies! Listen to the President and fight for freedom against them there terrorists! </southern accent> What's wrong with a military/government job? It's fairly stable and well paid for the tech guys, fairly safe too (unless they ship you to battlefront) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rakdos Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 One of the things you learn at nuke school is what critical means. All operating reactors "go critical," since it basically means that you are in steady-state. Then I guess it's is a good thing i am not going to nuke school , isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted May 13, 2005 Author Share Posted May 13, 2005 I know. Just remember to safen up. Be safer! If you're joining out of high school' date=' then you are not technically going to be a nuclear propulsion officer, you will be enlisted. You'll go to basic, then to nuclear field "A" school, nuke school and then prototype (unless they've gone and changed the whole training process) A high ASVAB probably means you are in line to be in the Electronics Technition rate, and be a Reactor Operator.[/quote'] they have it set up now where you get guarenteed your whole training thing. mine is i go to A school, then get e-4 pay, then go to nuke power school, then prototype, then i am a "qualified nuclear propulsion operator" and go to the BOOST program (get school free and get paid for it), then i am on the "officer training pipeline." instead of starting at basic pay, i start at e-3 before A school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insane Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 How much is pay? Could I get 16kg of Plutonium for my...um...element collection? Nah just joking (not really, PM me) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evangelante Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 Why would you want to be an officer? That's an eight year commitment isn't it? And they only obtain about $30k a year. pffht. sux for cash. food allowance isn't good either. Shoot man, if I were going into the military I'd do ROTC chemical engineer and then become an 18A. That way I could bust out my skillz and blow the crap out of people in wartime. And i'd be doing it for 8 years. 8 years i'd be kicking people's arses with chemical warfare. If i were doing navy though i'd wanna work on teh weaponz. Insane PM afterwards... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 they have it set up now where you get guarenteed your whole training thing. mine is i go to A school' date=' then get e-4 pay, then go to nuke power school, then prototype, then i am a "qualified nuclear propulsion operator" and go to the BOOST program (get school free and get paid for it), then i am on the "officer training pipeline." instead of starting at basic pay, i start at e-3 before A school.[/quote'] Ah, I didn't realize they guarantee you an officer program slot at enlistment. I'm sure it's contingent upon success at training. I knew several students who had been selected for that, or a similar program, but I was under the impression that they had applied later on in the training pipeline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted May 14, 2005 Author Share Posted May 14, 2005 the entire military is low on personel. they REALLY need nuke offs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted June 13, 2005 Author Share Posted June 13, 2005 I am going to the Hilton tommarrow and Wednesday I go to MEPS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdurg Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 My father was a nuclear submarine reactor operator for about 20 years in the Navy. The pay isn't/wasn't all that spectacular. He found much greener pastures and MUCH higher pay after he retired and began working at a nuclear power plant. Now he's able to make the big money that he should have been making while in the Navy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted June 15, 2005 Author Share Posted June 15, 2005 my enlistment bonus is $9,200 before taxes and i leave basic with a pay grade of E-3. my reenlistment bonus is $100,000 before taxes. i got swore in today. and i did MEPS, so i am DEP until july 18, 2006. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 My father was a nuclear submarine reactor operator for about 20 years in the Navy. The pay isn't/wasn't all that spectacular. He found much greener pastures and MUCH higher pay after he retired and began working at a nuclear power plant. Now he's able to make the big money that he should have been making while in the Navy. The military isn't the place to go to get rich. But I don't think that's a surprise. There's more to military service than getting paid, anyway - at some level you want people who aren't going to do it just for the money, because you need other qualities in the people. You do get training and certain benefits, and if he was in for 20, he gets retirement at half pay. I know that's half of base pay, not including housing or food allowance. But retiring from the miltary at ~40 means you can still put in 25 years at another company and get a full retirement from them, too, and use your 20 years as good experience to get a pretty decent second job. All the while hauling in a retirement check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted June 17, 2005 Author Share Posted June 17, 2005 man, i have to wait till next january to go to basic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted June 27, 2005 Author Share Posted June 27, 2005 i just found out that i can definitely keep doin SFN. there is internet access in the barracks in A school. i'm not sure bout basic, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
husmusen Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 But mind your P's and Q's the boss may be watching . Do they have potato peeling there . Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abeefaria Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Thank you, yourdadonapogostick, for serving, my hat is off to you sir. Good luck and keep us safe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Are you going to go for sub duty, or serve on targets surface ships? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted June 27, 2005 Author Share Posted June 27, 2005 i like to be able to see the sky every once and a while, so i declined sub duty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted June 27, 2005 Author Share Posted June 27, 2005 I never said 'Thank you.' And you'll never have to the same goes for you, abeefaria...and everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangloss Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Are you going to go for sub duty, or serve on [str]targets[/str'] surface ships? Hehe, cute. Reminds me of the old geek version of strikeout text: "^H^H^H^H". (hehe) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Hehe' date=' cute. [/quote'] When I served it was mostly with sub folk, since that was the bulk of the nuclear navy at the time, and they referred to the navy as having two types of vessels, subs and targets. And: never trust a vessel that travels at its test-depth. As I recall the surface guys didn't say much, being outnumbered as they were. The mix has evened out a little, AFAIK, since the Berlin wall came down and the Soviet Union...de-unionized. When I went TDY (temporary duty) on a sub, though, it didn't do anything to encourage me to take it up as a career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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