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Re: How is nuke challenging?
« Reply #25 on: Mar 09, 2010, 07:44 »
Maybe I missed it, but there is one more salient point I'd like to make.  Forgive me if I'm repeating someone else, please.

The topic is "how is nuke challenging?"  Well, one thing that makes it challenging is our strict adherence to standards.  Standards are our way of ensuring reliability and trust.  It is vital that members of our set of professions adhere strictly to standards.  If you want to be one of us, we must be able to depend on your ability to perform as expected -- to the standards.

Clear and precise communication are so vital to this industry that we have procedures for doing it.  In fact, that is one of the first things you will learn in the Navy, and it will be reinforced for the rest of your career.

We comply with procedures verbatim.  We use three-way communication.  We enunciate numbers and letters using the military phonetic alphabet when we speak.  We must, because there is an enormous difference between operating valve "two romeo charlie one one seven five delta" (2RC1175D) and "two romeo charlie one one seven five bravo" (2RC1175B) but not much difference in the sound of the last letter.

We are comparable to NASA in quality control and to air traffic control in communications.  We have to be because the consequences are so high.  Yes, that's challenging.  If it weren't we wouldn't be doing it.

Of course, the best reason to write well on this forum is because we asked you to.  In that regard, BZ and I totally agree.  As a manager, I may not judge you for poor spelling but I'll shred your resume if you demonstrate that you can not comply with a simple request.  The Navy won't be so nice.
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