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Comment by Pat L. in IL on August 31, 2009 at 10:38pm

BLW, Yup, he's probably grad and go. But he is in for a nice surprise (before the studying starts, that is). Nice rooms, good food, and a little freedom (compared to basic) And as he progresses the freedoms increase.

Comment by NevadaSierra on August 31, 2009 at 10:29pm

The other piece of having a NUKE - when ever I ask him how something works - oh yea - the eyes roll 'Never Mind Ma - why would you NEED to know - you have Dad and I?" EGO?! Gads - sometimes a girl would like an ANSWER - not MACHO. And the huffing! Gez, and he tried to give me credit for that one - can you imagine :-}

Comment by Pat L. in IL on August 31, 2009 at 9:00pm

Kim, Welcome!! Our son was grad and go. We met him at the airport and due to thunderstorms, we got to spend an extra 5 hours with him. I hope you can attend PIR, it is the most awesome event!! I live in Chicago so I can give you a heads up on the weather Oct.9.

BLW, For PIR, where does your son's Division fall in the line up?? Usually the first divisions are grad and go. Am I making myself clear?? I hope so.

Comment by LLovesmysailor on August 31, 2009 at 5:38pm

Alex has been a Nuke for almost 2 years now, he's an ET and got his Fish on his first deployment. The entire time he was in school I would tell him over and over, "You are Not Stupid, your just Lazy." He smiled at me and continued to get by because his teachers liked him. He didn't want to go to college out of HS because he hadn't "found himself." School was boring and so not fun. Then he went DEP at the end of his Junior year. The chief looked at his grades and told him "You are not stupid, you're lazy and the Navy doesn't pay for Lazy. Don't worry about finding yourself because you're going to be a NUKE!" So Chief call Alex's school and changed his senior year schedule.. and had his grades sent to him on a weekly basis. Where was the Chief when I needed him years earlier! LOL

Comment by BunkerQB on August 31, 2009 at 4:22pm

God had a wicked sense of humor when I designed future nukes. Regardless of where they are from and family background, they all have the same DNA. BLW, my son got a D in advance math and a F in Spanish. He spend more time with his sports than his books the first two years of high school. We thought he'd be lucky if he got into Heald College. Somehow between the sophomore and junior year in high school, he decided he wanted to go to college. He was named Physics Student of the Year (I thought he was getting an award for Physical Educating - your know sports). He got into many of the Univ of Ca campuses on the strength of a couple of 800s and some high 700s in math and physics. He graduated with a degree in electrical engineering with honors. He went thru OCS and is an officer on a sub. He tells me that the enlisted guys are just as smart as any of the officers (some even smarter) - they just didn't go the college route for one reason or another.
I hope all the enlisted guys take lots of classes and get that degree. Don't let this opportunity go to waste. I know a young man who enlisted 10 years ago as a nuke. He now has his BS in EE and he is getting his MBA from a very prestigious university.

Comment by NevadaSierra on August 31, 2009 at 1:38pm

Yep yep. Mine too. 'Average' till the chemistry teacher at the hs asked me if he could be in chemistry - I asked what was up? He said that Adam had been toutering some of his student's and he wanted to give him credit for his hard work. He got all 'a's' on the tests, but came out with a 'c' because he would NEVER do the home work. 'Why do the homework when I know it, and will get an 'a' on the test?'. Played math games in the store figuring out the cost per ounce before those were printed. Hang in there - this is a great place to be. Life has a wonderful way of 'smacking' us back to reality - while we as parent's probably won't be around when it happens - you will notice changes - it just takes time. Some times we don't hear about the changes, but others who share do and that is a great blessing~s

Comment by BunkerQB on August 31, 2009 at 11:39am

DianaC, don't worry about his arrogance. If it is justified, he'll make it; otherwise, he'll be out of there. The nuke guys, officers and enlisted, are as smart as they come. He will meet his match and then some. There will be many volunteers to assist in curing him of his ignorance in no time. Who knows, he may find that the the elegance of the steps in a mathematical proof may be a reward in itself. Best of luck to your son.

Comment by Mark on August 30, 2009 at 11:45pm

All submarines actually are armed with the same torpedoes - for SSGNs and SSBNs though, they are primarily for defense against hostile submarines. SSNs (fast attacks) have a number of missions - they are terrific platforms for surveillance, SEAL team insertion (also done by SSGNs), Tomahawk cruise missiles, used against heavily defended targets on land hundreds of miles inland (many launched in both Iraq wars), and hunting and destroying hostile ships and (especially) submarines. Indeed, they do enter a variety of foreign ports, and often will operate with a carrier group, though this is a smaller part of their mission (carrier support, that is). They operate pretty independently mostly.

Comment by LLovesmysailor on August 30, 2009 at 9:44pm

I am now convince that the recruiters ask "Did you work hard and study a lot in High School?" If they say NO, then they sign them up to be Nukes! LOL

Comment by Dana (David's Mom) on August 30, 2009 at 3:22pm

My son is in class 0946-MT. Started actual classes on 8/10 with the week before being INDOC. So far doing well, seems to have friends and doing things. He so far seems happy.

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