NukeWorker Forum
Career Path => Navy Nuke => Topic started by: Bob T on Feb 10, 2014, 01:35
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Gonna be mostly lurking, as I am an OLD new guy and my stuff is no longer current/useful.
Enlisted in Navy, 1962.
Boot camp, ET school, Sub school.
Qualified diesel boats Sea Devil and Pomfret.
Went to nuc power school, Mare Island, class 64-4.
A1W Prototype, then a temporary staff tour at A1W.
Went to Sam Rayburn, became RC Div LPO.
Sam Rayburn went into overhaul, I went to Nat Greene.
Got out, got EE and Computer Science degrees, UC Davis.
Did an internship at Rancho Seco between Junior and Senior years. That included core load and initial crit.
Worked at Mare Island as an engineer 18 years. Mostly Nuclear Engineering Dept.
Peace broke out, M.I. hit closure list.
Worked at Vandenberg AFB in space lift 17 years. Helped make money into noise.
Retired about 3 years ago. Have recurring nightmares about quarterly Rad Con exams and 08 audits.
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Welcome aboard there are a few walking fossils on these boards but most are not. Are you a member of the USSVI? Most don't join until near or in retirement, most of the members of my chapter served on at least one diesel boat and we have 3 WWII vets. Hopefully you cruised the threads as we have our share of curmudgeons posting in almost all areas.