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Comment by William in Nashua on August 5, 2011 at 7:18am

Maybe they cry and whimper because the food on submarines is a big disappointment.

Comment by BunkerQB on August 5, 2011 at 2:43am

There are many, many with super high IQs in the Nuke program - as enlisted or officers.  There is book-learned brilliance and practical-put-it-to-test brilliance. Sometimes the guys who aren't great with cracking a book will be fantastic in prototype. I guess you can say they are all brilliant in one way or another.  As moms, wives, dads, fiancees, gfs - we naturally think our own sailor is the most brilliant person on the face of the planet. I am sure the sailors themselves are more down-to-earth in their self evaluations. Let's hope so anyway, a few wise guys have been known to cry and whimper through the entire deployment. On a sub, that could be up to six months.

Good luck to all in whatever the next phase is.

Comment by kathy on August 5, 2011 at 1:39am

Twogirl, Dodie and Nvmomma, my son will also be classing up with power school on 8/18.  Pretty sure he will be glad to be back in school.  He is an ET, too. 

Comment by William in Nashua on August 5, 2011 at 12:40am

Well my son's A school graduation is August 12 which happens to be the same day as a power school graduation. Gee no wonder his is at 7 AM Lol. Can you imagine a graduation ceremony held at 7 in the morning? It is like congratulations, now get the hell out of here.

Comment by nvmomma on August 5, 2011 at 12:24am

twogirl & Dodie, add my son to the 8/18 PS class-up list, he's an ET...

Comment by Dodie on August 5, 2011 at 12:11am

Twogirl, my son will be classing up w/power school on 8/18/11 as well.

 

Comment by twogirl91 on August 4, 2011 at 11:29pm

Hey! I haven't been on Navy For Moms since my hubby graduated basic training. He's on T-track right now, he's classing up for Power School, August 18th. Which I'm looking forward too, he does so much better when schools going on. These overnight watches are killing me. A school went by so fast and so I'm hoping the same goes for Power School. Anyone elses men about to start Power School?

Comment by Mark on August 4, 2011 at 10:32pm

cinechic - thanks for filling in the background. Being an officer on a submarine is not for everyone, no matter how brilliant. His task in the training pipeline should be to show that he can be a team player, and show that he can work hard, even though it probably won't be necessary for him to work that hard to make it through the academics. Hopefully, he'll demonstrate that by helping those in his class that might struggle, and for himself - finish in the top one or two in his class academically; anything less would be perceived by the staff as gross under-achieving in his case. If he can accomplish that, without coming across as someone who thinks "he's all that", he'll be in great shape. If he chooses to re-enlist, though he would do substantially better as a served navy nuc with an engineering degree, to get out after six - he should be a lock for an LDO (Limited Duty Officer) spot, and duty with Naval Reactors (NR), working in oversight of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, after the first enlistment. It's not necessarily a leadership role, unless he chose to make it one, but sort of an auditor/inspector role. I suspect he'll prefer to pursue his many opportunities in CIVLANT/CIVPAC though (private industry, or shipyard civilian)...

Comment by cinechic (07/301) on August 4, 2011 at 10:21pm

Haha, that bit was a joke.

Comment by William in Nashua on August 4, 2011 at 10:02pm

Congratulations labellaleigh so how does your husband like T-track so far?  What do they actually do during that time?  My son said his hours during T-track are going to be 12 hours on duty, 24 hours off. Does your husband have those hours?  

 

I told my son I think it is being done that way so they are all too tired to go to bars Lol. The bachelor sailor is what  I mean, of course. Hence they will stay out of mischief, or so one would hope.

 

By the way I got the replacement phone already, they delivered it overnight here to New Hampshire not to my son in Goose Creek, because I am the account holder they said I had to accept delivery.   

 

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