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Comment by B'sNukemom&dad⚓️MM on October 15, 2013 at 1:11pm

Comment by B'sNukemom&dad⚓️MM on October 11, 2013 at 1:07pm

Happy Friday All!

Comment by Phillip Mitchell on October 3, 2013 at 8:14pm

Dash for cash sounds fun.  My MM failed the run by 12 seconds, he completed A school academically, but didn't get his crow until he completed power school.  It put a damper on his post A school leave, but made PS graduation that much more special. Sounds fun but take it serious.  He was scheduled to graduate prototype Nov.1, but the date has been pushed 2 weeks to the right.  So we have 6 more weeks of the schooling pipeline left.

Comment by B'sNukemom&dad⚓️MM on October 3, 2013 at 12:09pm

That's awesome Daniel - enjoy the time with your sailor!

Comment by Daniel Cederborg on September 30, 2013 at 7:10pm

Our son is home for his first leave after graduating from A School.  Really great to have him home and see how much he's grown as a young man!

Comment by Mark Church on September 30, 2013 at 1:52pm

Hi John, I know all of our first concern is to keep our sailors and all of our military safe. I was just going by what we got from the OMBUDSMAN about OPSEC. We got a long letter telling us what we can and can't say regarding both the sailors and the boat on social networking, friends and family. Here are the first two paragraphs on the letter.

OPSEC: Operation Security, OPSEC, is the practice of keeping vital information about the boat from the enemy - items such as, but not limited to, patrol dates, location of the boat, maintenance and morale of her crew. It's purpose is to deprive the enemy of any information that might help him.

Sailors or family members discussing the above mentioned items via phone call, text message, facebook, twitter, other social media sites, email, or in person is prohibited. If someone is found to be sharing sensitive information actions will be taken. Actions as minor as having boat email privileges taken away and as serious as the service member being relieved of his or her duties.

Comment by Evan Barnard on September 27, 2013 at 11:50am

Hey I just learned about the "Dash for Cash" at the end of A-school.  Is that just a fun name for their final PFA or is this a separate tradition?  Either way I like the term.

Comment by Bubblehead on September 27, 2013 at 7:51am

I can sympathize with those sailors who are in drydock or other
long-term upkeep.  I was a nuke EM1 on a fast attack fro 73-77.   
 
When I joined my boat, fresh out of nuke school, they had just
finished a refueling overhaul that went too long.  In order to try to
keep from (further) schedule slip, they worked long hours with no
weekends and few opportunities for leave.  The work was frequently
menial, like firewatches, to support the work the yard was doing.
There was lots of cleanup work and effort spent to fix mistakes by
yardworkers.
 
Of the entire junior nuke enlisted crew (those on their first
enlistment), I can only remember 1 who reenlisted.
 
Upkeep/overhaul is just not what our sailors enlisted to do.  Most
want to get to see, qualify on watchstations, earn their dolphins and
see the world.
 
My son (now an EM2 nuke) joined a boat that was in the beginning of
upkeep.  At first, life was good.  They were ahead of schedule and the
crew got reasonable time off.  As the upkeep progressed, the work
hours increased, and life became harder, even though the upkeep was
ahead of schedule.   
 
As a new kid, he also need to work on quals.  This was made more
difficult because many of the sign-offs have to be done on an
operational boat.
 
Bottom line...  Being a nuke is hard to begin with, and upkeeps are
morale-sucking.  Keep in touch with your sailor; send goodies.  Food
is something every sailor enjoys.
 

Comment by Mark Church on September 26, 2013 at 10:20pm

John, talking about moral of the boat or even that the boat is in dry dock is a violation of OPSEC(operational security). If you are that worried about your son you need to contact the OMBUDSMAN for the boat. Please do not talk about the boat and what is going on with it on the internet.

Comment by Evan Barnard on September 22, 2013 at 5:41pm

Looking forward to this next part of our son's journey in his Navy career.  Arrived last night/this morning at Goose Creekand begins INDOC Monday (I think.)

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