well i am definately not a slack ass as you are all saying. I work very hard. I have put in way more hours than demanded from me since A school. I have gotten great evols and have shown out among my piers to my superiors. I am very well known in the command and if you ask anyone they will say I am definately earning my paycheck. All im saying is that i would like some direction in my navy career as to when I get out I can get a well paying job. Im not even saying it has to be at a power plant. I plan on being EWS qualified and earning my degree using my GI bill and also getting credits while in the service. Just on hold I earned 12 credits so I never stop working. As far as the quality of training we get it has not went down in the least. Just in my power school class we lost 60 people and 10 out of my A school class due to academics. I ask instructors all the time if the program is easier before and all of them tell me that it is the exact same material just that the instructors are better trained and more involved
No offense but do you really think that the instructors are REALLY going to tell you the truth on that matter? All you have to do is simply find anywhere that Navy Nukes post in large numbers and you are going to hear 900 examples of how the course is easier now for very one that says it is harder or the same. Yea you may have lost 60 our of power school but that is out of how many? 300? 400? I fully support you ambitious nature in what you plan on doing with your career. However every good nuke always has a plan B and Plan C for when Plan A doesnt' work. Sometimes those plans will fall apart due in no part to your own effort. Sometimes timing is just really really crappy and there is no way around it. I was set to start EWS quals at NPTU, but had to wait for several months because we kept getting new people in that went into EWS quals directly due to being EWS/PPWS qual'd on their ships/boats. So by the time I got in, it was almost a full year later and only had 8 months left after I qual'd. That is also about the time I tore up my knee so I never really stood the watch.
In Summary, ensure that you have a plan B/C, don't take everything that a Staff Member says at face value when you are asking as a student about the standards of the program, and ensure that you use the correct versions of homophones, since they jump out in text form whereas they might go unnoticed in spoken language.
Last but not least......
BCF(Be Cool Fool, Mr. T circa 1980s)
