....... plus I think I'm good at identifying key points out of the big picture.......
not so much,...
.... In the Navy at least it's seemed like time spent on training had a bigger overall impact than time spent operating,...
this is because your perspective is based on your self and not on reality,...
...On the other hand, maybe the world outside the Navy is organized differently enough that that isn't really the case.....
no, both are based on reality:
in the Navy the reality is that nuclear power plants are the best alternative for the aircraft carriers and submarines of a blue water, global projection, multiple fleet power projection force,...
the Navy does not have nukes to give nuke trainers something to do, the Navy has nukes because nukes do the job best for the needs of the US Navy, as soon as something better comes along nuclear powered ships will go away, just as sails and coal did before them,...
training is a necessary requisite to fight wars with nuclear powered warships,...
that's the reality of NNPP training,...
NNPP training does not exist for it's own sake,...
Because it takes too long and too much money to license people, and we don't just give them up from ops very easily....
Commercial nuclear power plants exist to cost effectively put electrons moving through the grid and collect revenue for putting those moving electrons through the grid,...
When the cost effectiveness is no longer there the commercial nuke plant is no longer needed, when the plant is no longer needed, there are no more operating jobs, if there are no operating jobs, there is no need for those who train the operators,...
that's reality, and reality does not care about you,...
reality is a messy, never ending, clean up set, we are all just here to ride the wave or wipe out,...
your choice,...