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To go Nuke or not to go Nuke....do you have an option?
- Thread starter FMRAM
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Every OC sub guy I know, whether nuke or not, is getting out of that community. Just an anecdote, not statistics.
Heard something new from my roommate who's in this boat. The ship list was supposed to come out this week with the rankings in 2 weeks, but the SWOs aren't releasing it now. Basically the nukes are getting pissed because no one else wants to join them so they aren't releasing the names of tons of people (like my roommate) to the SWO community. As a result, since the SWOs don't know how many people they're going to get, they rightly aren't releasing the ranking and ship lists so as not to screw over anyone who the nukes won't release. This is going to push back ship selection into April, screwing over all the SWOs across the country.
This is insane. There are SWOs who aren't going to know where they're going, potentially less than a month before they'll have to report to places like Pearl, Japan, or San Diego. And even more, why do the academy kids get to select their ships already? Why isn't the nuke community trying to extract more out of them?
This is insane. There are SWOs who aren't going to know where they're going, potentially less than a month before they'll have to report to places like Pearl, Japan, or San Diego. And even more, why do the academy kids get to select their ships already? Why isn't the nuke community trying to extract more out of them?
I had a buddy in college that up until his 1st class cruise, was all set to go aviation. Even an Aerospace E major (not that that helps anything.) He went on a carrier for a week including getting a catshot in something tactical. He came back and immediately put in his Nuke package. He said he hated it so much on the carrier that he couldn't go aviation. He loves being a Sub Nuke. He loves the 18 hour day cycle and all that jazz. He did have like a 50lb brain, so I don't think he was ever worried about Nuke school. He loves it from what he has always told me. So, there are some guys that like that sort of thing.
I would guess all of us on this site are pretty biased since most of us have/had hopes of putting clouds between our legs instead of hot-racking at 20,000 leagues under the sea.
I would guess all of us on this site are pretty biased since most of us have/had hopes of putting clouds between our legs instead of hot-racking at 20,000 leagues under the sea.
Does anyone think this may have something to do with too many people not enough airplanes in the aviation side of the house? It seems like the helo debacle in HT's, and the severe lacking of P-3's till the MMA, futher complicates the issues of manning and backups in training on the aviation side of the house....
Just a thought
Just a thought
MasterBates
Well-Known Member
This was before the HT debacle.
whalepelt
New Member
Several guys in my unit got that too. Except it wasn't an offer; it was mandatory. I asked the LT in charge of such things why I didn't pull a trip, and he said he had to rate our likeliness to change to nuke. I got a 0.
Maybe I should have led them on a little. :icon_wink
Huh, surprised to see their numbers going NR. We have 3 from my unit alone and according to them there are a ton more other ROTC kids doing it. I wonder why they weren't heavily recruiting the USNA kids. Weird.
You keep saying this. How do you know they weren't?
Naval Reactors (Nuke)?
oh yuck- thanks
USNA kids already got their orders while our orders are on hold until they sort out this mando-nuke thing.
That doesn't mean they didn't have a nuke draft or some other recruiting effort.
It means their nuke draft came and went and didn't fill the 35 slots.
Actually our CO said something about the nukes waiting too long to start the draft for the USNA and their orders had already been written. The ROTC guys don't normally get orders until later so we're still prime meat.