LOL NO way!!! I hear there are no Radiomen or Torpedomen or whatever they used to be called.
By the way if anyone has a Principles Of Naval Engineering book I'd love to take it off your hands!
Mike
This is true, Radiomen were merged with ET (sort of makes sense), on our sub all the nav people are also ET. I'm not 100% sure if they still have QM since I don't hang around many skimmers. And torpedomen are now.. MM's. I'm waiting for STS and FT to merge into ET, I mean, why not, right? Put EM and ET together as well, why not. Soon it will just be MM, ET, EOD, SEAL, AB, and some Constructionman type rate.
I'll actually answer the OP though, because I think just using the search function stiffles discussion and makes for a dead board that nobody visits.
You spend most of the time cleaning. But that's because it's the Navy, every rate is like that.
You work a lot of hours and it sucks because half of it is spent cleaning.
But I'd do it again, I loved power school and A school. I really enjoy the classroom environments. When I got to the part where I actually had to talk to other people is where it all broke down for me. I knew way more than I needed to know, but I didn't want to actually talk to anyone to actually get the signature (I really hate quals, most people do). Basically there is a lot of stupid BS that surrounds some occasional fun stuff. For ratings:
ET, they are the only people who can stand RO, they also have the biggest re-enlistment bonus (more later)
EM, six months of school like ET (make 3rd get more $ after A school) but the worst re-up bonus and working around all those EM fields tends to make almost every EM I've met who has any major time in just a little bit 'off'.
MM, I am so I'm biased, but yeah. ET and EM primarily spend their time (once qualified a senior watchstation) sitting at a panel and watching a screen. only the most junior watchstations can really walk around. MM however have a much wider space to roam about and you don't have an officer sitting behind you staring at you at all times. Also they can't keep mechanics in the Navy, they're losing tons of people at the 6, 8, 10, 12 year points. This means that MM re-up bonuses are skyrocketing. Also, only three months of A school, so you make 3rd faster, so you get paid more. And finally they are the only people who can go ELT, don't worry about that until prototype though (you'll actually see what they do there and won't be able to put in for it until then).
The program is all about nuclear power, and operating safely. Daily tasks involve, cleaning, paperwork, cleaning, taking logs, cleaning, adjusting the 700# air reducer because it's a piece of garbage that needs to get replaced, cleaning, studying, cleaning, and then field day (more cleaning). Occassionally you'll do maintenance (most of that time is spent doing paperwork). But for the most part you just walk around and write down numbers and make sure you're not on the verge of breaking the plant. When a major evolution happens a supervisor will basically stand behind you and say do this, and you'll do it, and if you don't know where the valve is because you didn't prep for the evolution at all he'll point it out to you (or yell at you depending on what type of supervisor they are). And getting in is not hard. If you've gone to MEPS and are officially in DEP with a ship date and everything then you are going to go nuke. Congrats you're in. Just don't do stupid shit (DUI, pissing on the side of buildings, wild sex party with pictures put in finadable spaces, drugs, spouse abuse, sex with another mans wife, sex with staff, etc etc etc...) and get good grades and you'll do just fine.
