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RCLCPO:
If you fax me a copy of your transcripts, including your SAT scores, and your return address (or e-mail), I'll see to it that you get the information for the programs you're eligible for.

e-mail:  Nuke1_port@cnrc.navy.mil
fax: 503-258-2179

You may indeed be a fine candidate for NROTC, and/or NUPOC.  If you decide to stay in the enlisted Navy Nuke program, and do well, you could very well be picked up for an officer program, including the Nuclear Officer option.  I've seen it happen, and more than once.

As for the Army, the last time I was at the US Army Nuclear Chemical Agency at FT. Belvoir in northern Virginia it was 1980.  They were the guys who had fun spinning their round slide rules figuring out the kill radius for various megatons of warheads, NOT nuclear engineering.  They fooled around with the idea of pulling a small reactor plant on the back of a flat-bed truck out into the field to provide power to the troops.  Hmmm......just think about that.....one incoming mortar round could ruin a lot of people's day......

dep759:
Hmmmm Talk about information overload My heads still spinning! However I do appreciate all the advice. Tommorrow im going to my recruiters office to see the nuke coordinator for our area about some of the programs you guys told me about. I will have to think hard about some of the options. If theres a good chance that I may be picked up at nps for an officer position I may just look into that. (I read somewhere that if you are really high in your nps class and  a few other things that you have  a good chance of being picked, this is what the recruiters are telling me to go for) However as was said earlier they need to meet a quota. Also is the army nuclear field really as good a bet as what the navy offers? (if its still around)

Roll Tide:

--- Quote from: dep759 on Aug 24, 2004, 08:09 --- Also is the army nuclear field really as good a bet as what the navy offers? (if its still around)

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Nuclear power is the exclusive domain of the USN today. Yeah, the Army talked about portable Nuclear power and the Air Force studied Nuclear powered planes. They don't even talk about them anymore!

Nuclear weapons are within the realm of each branch. The Navy also has plenty of weapons officer positions.

If you really want to get a useful education, Naval Nuclear Power is the way to go. I would suggest NROTC / NUPOC and go through NNPS as an officer unless there is some grand reason to be enlisted. (For the record, I had a reason I thought was grand, so I chose enlisted nuke. It is great training and worth a million $ over the course of my life!)

Already Gone:
Young person, I do not intend to confuse you.  All I am trying is to tell you that you have a lot of good options.  In my opinion, enlisted NPS should be no higher than Plan B. 
If someone gave you a voucher for a free car, the Ford dealer would try to get to you before you found out about Mercedes.  What I'm telling you is that NNPS is a top of the line Ford.  NROTC is a Lincoln Navigator.  Who knows, you might find that Mercedes somewhere in the process.
THe Army program is about defunct.  Their biggest achievement with a reactor was to pin an operator to the ceiling with a control rod.  They have operated reactors,but I don't know if they still do.  The only portable plant I know of was the PM-3A that the Navy operated in Antarctica in the 60's.

http://www.atomicinsights.com/nov95/ANPPSum.html

Naturally, we here can only speak within the limits of Nuclear power.  Though you have expressed a desire to enter this field, your options are so much wider than that.
Remember that the recruiter has his interests to serve.  He has no obligation to you at all.  Sure, he'll tell you that you can get picked out of NPS for some officer program.  But that is like reaching for the brass ring.  Someone with your grades and potential should not have to rely on a gamble to get where he wants to be.  At least give yourself the benefit of investigating the other options fully before you lock into this one.  Then, if you end up in enlisted NPS, you still have all those other opportunities.

Roll Tide:

--- Quote from: dep759 on Aug 24, 2004, 12:35 --- So do you think that I should pursue the officers position? Right now Im a senior in high school with slightly above a 4.0 gpa and live in florida.
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Can you say bright scholar (or is it bright future scholars) ? I thought you could.

If you aren't about to get married or some other thing like that, then figure out a way to go to college.

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