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07 June 2009

I get to post this because I don't have any study hours tonight. I am now a graduate of Naval Nucular Power School! My final exam was last Tuesday, graduation was on Friday, and I've spent the weekend showing my parents around Charleston.→[More:]It was six months of hard work, but it really paid off. Now I get to enjoy 3 months on hold working as a lab assistant and a relaxing 9-5 schedule. After that, six months of practical training at the Prototype facility in Charleston and then the fleet (hopefully, a ballistic missile submarine).

post by: concrete at: 21:01 | 17 comments

Congrats!

posted by gomichild 07 June | 21:13

Wow, congrats!

posted by Sil 07 June | 21:19

Congrats!

Though the thought of working on a submarine gives me claustrophobic nightmares.

posted by mullacc 07 June | 21:31

Congratulations!

posted by jason's_planet 07 June | 21:48

Hey, Concrete, you're a submariner?

Have you read this book:

Submarine Technology For the Twenty-First Century

If so, what did you think about it? (If the technology involved is too classified to talk about, no worries.)

posted by jason's_planet 07 June | 21:52

Awesome! My brother was Navy, but he was only a fireman. But at least it was on the Big E, and he did see the world (mostly the equatorial part).

posted by dhartung 07 June | 22:11

Welcome to the Nuclear Club! Was I right?

posted by Ardiril 07 June | 22:17

Nucular! Ossum!

Congratulations concrete!

posted by special-k 07 June | 22:30

Wow, congrats! Seems like only yesterday you were going to boot camp (I forget, you went in as an enlisted man, correct?)

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 07 June | 22:33

Congratulations and good luck!

(At work we're about to lose the group lead for a year or so to some Navy posting in CA - I think he's a submarine dude, so if you do run into him at some point he is totally awesome and you should convince him to get you beer.)

posted by casarkos 07 June | 22:45

Congrats!

posted by sperose 08 June | 07:11

Big Congrats!

Must feel so good to get that behind you and to have the possibility of free time w/out guilt! Do you catch yourself thinking you should be studying?

posted by mightshould 08 June | 07:13

Congrats concrete! And you get to begin your career in a beautiful city!

posted by initapplette 08 June | 07:34

Wow, that's awesome. Congrats, concrete!

posted by gaspode 08 June | 07:46

Remember, concrete: It's pronounced "nook-you-lurr."

posted by mudpuppie 08 June | 11:02

Congradulamations!

One of my brothers was in the Navy; I don't know exactly what he did (something on the flight deck). At one point he was assigned to submarine duty, but he had to get out of it because he's 6'3".

posted by deborah 08 June | 12:38

Thank you all for your congratulations.

Ardiril: Yes, you were right.

Mightshould: I find myself trying to take notes at every brief I´ve gone to since graduation.

TPS: Yes, I went in as an enlisted man. I don´t think I´d want to be responsible for what a sub officer has hanging over him (or her, if the predictions I´m hearing are true).

posted by concrete 09 June | 17:04

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