As someone mentioned, yes the CVN's require a great deal more Nuclear Engineers. My Dad is a retired Navy Nuke Engineer & now works on the CVN-X project for Northrop-Grumman, Nuke is the future of Surface Navy as the contracts stand right now however, there are glitches, none of these ships are being delivered on time & I always know there is another problem or modification or whatever based upon my Dad's travels, somewhere in WI is where a lot of the testing of the reactors is done & my Dad always comes home saying "f***ing Sanjay screwed up again". I wouldn't worry that any of you are going to actually end up doing this but Nuke School does suck, my Dad went there as a student & as an instructor, a friend of my husband & mine just finished & my Dad wants his # to recruit him to CVN-X, as far as what my Dad says, this guy's contract will be up before they can put him to use in the Surface Navy. So, I hope that relaxes many of you but seeing as how this is an aviation forum, any hint of going SWO probably sucks.