................I was diagnosed very quickly with PTSD. I was advised that I really should bring this up to the Navy, but I was trying to handle it without them knowing. I ended up having a flashback at work (due to an open system, and the plant looking like it did when everything happened…...
.....I'm still uncomfortable being in open electrical systems, but I am working on it. I still did maintenance the two years after it happened, but I mainly took as many extra duties as I could to avoid being around too much.......
Before anyone jumps down my throat for being unsympathetic, I will state that my empathy stops at the time your supervisor is clueless to the fact that your PTSD and the inherent flashbacks can kill the guy who has been working with and for that supervisor for six years, and that supervisor will have to tell the dead man's wife and children that their husband and father will never come home from a job that the same supervisor assigned him to. Regardless of all the CBOT training and FFD protections the supervisor failed, the supervisor failed to be the last, best link in the chain that makes sure everybody goes home breathing just as well as when they came to work.
Sorry Scenario03 but one of the potential pitfalls of the NNPP is puffing folks up into believing they are smarter than anybody else in the room.
Did it ever occur to you your PTSD could kill someone else?
That during your quest to gain as much as you could out of the Navy before EAOS or your condition caught up to you, that the price tag could be someone else's life?
Of course it occured to you, if you deny it I label you liar and dam me if I am wrong!!
It occured to you because you were smart enough to make it through Navy Nuclear Power School, smart enough to successfully hide your condition from the Navy for years as you completed the qualification routine, performed maintenance, stood watch, performed through the stress of ORSE and workups and the general rigamaroll of life in the US Navy enlisted NNPP.
You are a smart cookie, and very good at deceit and covering your tracks to achieve your ends.
Anybody that smart knows the results of their duplicity could be someone else's life during a maintenance evolution gone wrong because of a flashback.
Your duty was to let your supervisor's know of this, for the protection of everybody involved, your duty was to protect the lives of those around you as best as you could within the place where your condition could affect them profoundly.
Not to "self-medicate" as you deemed best to achieve your goals and aspirations.
But,....you got what most of what you wanted out of the Navy, your quals, your HD, your veterans benefits, the whole ride sans the NEC.
And now you come here trying to figure the best way to gloss through the ugly unspoken truth of your duplicity when applying for a job in commercial nuclear power?!?!?
Here's my advice,....
Don't ask us, don't make us complicit in your deceit with well meaning but misplaced empathy for the tragedy of watching your chief cook and sizzle before your eyes.
Be prepared to explain this thread (social media search), because this thread is going to be a wake up call to somebody to be watching for a certain resume with certain key bits of information to come through the system, to wit;
USS Ronald Reagan
2010
5 1/2 years, surface nuke EM, qualified Load Dispatcher
Nuclear engineering technology degree via Excelsior
I qualified everything I could up to my position, never had any NJP's, no negative counseling chits, never went dinq a qualification, kept my nose clean the entire time.
I have proof of all my quals, my orders to show my timeline, and all documentation about my diagnosis. I will get an honorable discharge, but on my DD-214, my NEC will not be the 3384 I had.
I tried to keep the Navy not involved. After seeing a bunch of social workers, and paying out of pocket for civilian psychologist, and psychiatrist, I was diagnosed very quickly with PTSD. I was advised that I really should bring this up to the Navy, but I was trying to handle it without them knowing.
Can you get employment?!?!?
Probably.
Should you be trusted with the lives of your co-workers?!?
I'm not qualified to delve that far into your current standard of ethics to know you would rather inconvenience yourself before putting others around you at risk.
My assessment of your past ethics is that you and your desires come first.
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