Not sure how many operator interviews you've performed, but he would get asked, and then passed over..., most likely. I've seen it 5 times thus far. And I am not sure how unknowledgable your HR department is, but ours certainly does know how to decipher a DD214..., but it isn't HR I would worry about. Fact is, ops departments all over the nuclear fleet aren't looking for just your standard 6 and outer anymore..., much less a 5 or 4 and outer.
The rest of your advice... might apply to the rest of the world, but I don't know anything about that.
Why does every operator on this site assume that every Navy nuke wants to be an operator at a civilian nuke?
There are so many other jobs available to these people that it makes almost no sense for them to compete for so few available operator jobs that are so difficult to get and keep.
As someone just pointed out, a Navy nuke Electrician is going to get a job somewhere. And in most cases it will NOT be because he was a Navy nuke, but because of the attributes that a person must have in order to become a Navy nuke. If you can qualify once in the nuclear Navy, you can learn just about any job and succeed at it. And ONLY those who never made the mental transition out of the Navy will actually care about whatever it is that happened here. While it is good to maintain the professionalism, dedication, demeanor, and discipline that you learned in the Navy, you also have to accept that your mind was discharged at the same time they discharged your body.
Out here, it is about BUSINESS, and business is about MONEY. You make decisions out here based on getting the best value for your money. There is no place in business for prejudice or holding a grudge - which is exactly what you are doing if you hold a person accountable for a transgression which was 1) not against you and 2) not bad enough that the aggrieved party considered it worth disciplinary action.
I think that this is more informative to NukeLuke than anything else.
What appears to have happened here is that your fiance did some dumb thing because he was told to do it by a Chief or Officer and he did it without question or without challenging the wisdom of the ordered action.
(stop me as soon as I go off the beam)
In my time that would have dis-qualified him, but they wouldn't have taken away his nuclear NEC. They would have just made him go through a remedial re-qualification. It seems that these days they just give you the boot.
But it is so so so so worthy of note that there was no NJP. Hmmmmm! Could that perhaps be because a Captain's Mast would make the officer look worse for giving the order? Is maybe somebody covering some fleshy part of his anatomy here? De-nuke him and the problem goes away with him, eh?
Well, the same EXACT type of people as those who are french frying him for this are the ones who are operating the civilian nukes. Blind as they are to their own manifold faults and weaknesses, they will tolerate none from an applicant. Take this into account when job hunting.
"Fact is, ops departments all over the nuclear fleet aren't looking for just your standard 6 and outer anymore..., much less a 5 or 4 and outer."See? They are bringing that Navy mentality with them. There is nothing that an additional 2, 4, 6 years in the Navy can give an applicant that will make him a better civilian operator, yet they seem to be looking for the guys who spent a longer time doing the same irrelevant crap than one enlistment's worth.
I can't imagine why anyone would want that job.