Tomorrow morning, Nerdchick has her interview with the admiral for admittance into the US Navy nuclear program, teaching engineering to n00bs.

6/23/2008 11:26:34 PM

awesome. good luck!

you're doing what i wanted to do ever since i was a little kid... join the nuclear navy

6/23/2008 11:28:01 PM

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"awesome. good luck! you're doing what i wanted to do ever since i was a little kid... join the nuclear navy "

6/23/2008 11:28:58 PM

good luck!!

6/23/2008 11:30:44 PM

good luck!

i was an ET in the navy!

6/23/2008 11:32:00 PM

yeah that's pretty sweet nerdchick. congrats

6/23/2008 11:34:15 PM

good luck, boo

6/23/2008 11:34:35 PM

good luck

6/23/2008 11:41:35 PM

Congrats, Nerdie. I'll be praying for ya.

6/23/2008 11:42:13 PM

Congradulations have fun teaching seamen how not to get fried.. hahaha

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 11:43 PM. Reason : .]

6/23/2008 11:42:53 PM

congrats

but that would be lying

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 11:44 PM. Reason : - ]

6/23/2008 11:43:42 PM

congrats

i'd pray for you if i thought it would do any good

6/24/2008 1:06:43 AM

awww yay!!

6/24/2008 1:07:24 AM

Good luck training the:

6/24/2008 11:12:37 AM

good luck, boo

6/24/2008 11:14:45 AM

Aww good luck

I'll say lots of prayers for you!!!

6/24/2008 11:14:54 AM

6/24/2008 3:40:43 PM

GL, Nerdchick!!

6/24/2008 3:42:42 PM

She's in.

6/24/2008 4:19:11 PM

BAM!

If you qualify for that program (if it's the same one I think it is) while you're still in school they give you like a $17,000 bonus and a $3000 a month stipend. Then, once you graduate, you get like a $68,000 a year job or something plus all the benefits associated with being in the military.

Shit's ridiculous. On the negative side, you do become owned by the military and have to go through a ridiculous background check to get top secret clearance.

[/bananas]

6/24/2008 4:24:40 PM

yay! good job, nerdchick!

6/24/2008 4:26:49 PM

GJ, Nerdchick!

6/24/2008 4:33:59 PM

CONGRATS!

i work for the navy too, when you get an email account look me up in global

6/24/2008 4:53:03 PM

yay congrats nerdchick

6/24/2008 5:00:17 PM

congratulations nerdchick

6/24/2008 11:04:00 PM

Say hello to Officer Candidate Nerdchick!

6/27/2008 11:15:07 PM

grats brita

6/27/2008 11:46:18 PM

Good job, Britta. Too bad that old son of a bitch rejected me without explanation.

6/27/2008 11:47:34 PM

[Edited on June 27, 2008 at 11:54 PM. Reason : Be a man and do it Britta!]

6/27/2008 11:54:15 PM

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"teaching engineering to n00bs."

depends if she's teaching officers or enlisted. if it's the officers, almost all of them came through ROTC or the Academy, where at the very least, through MA 242 (Calc III), and through PY 208 (Engineering Physics II) is required. also, a Naval Engineering is required for ROTC, and the requirements to graduate from Annapolis are even more strict. West Point and Annapolis, being the Army and Navy and Marine Corps Academies, were originally meant to be primarily engineering schools, as the early nation drew on its officer corps as the innovators, highway builders, etc. - basically, the education of the academies was meant to be practical, and to this day, all Academy graduates will have a good general engineering background, even if they study humanities.

[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 12:06 AM. Reason : if they're enlisted, well, they won't learn too much engineering theory]

6/28/2008 12:05:13 AM

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" if it's the officers, almost all of them came through ROTC or the Academy"

the largest percentage of navy officers come from ocs homie

6/28/2008 12:16:41 AM

god fykal u are the macquyver of facts

6/28/2008 12:19:10 AM

Some enlisted guys DO get to the officer ranks though. Like my Dad

6/28/2008 12:19:16 AM

^^^I'm gonna have to call bullshit.

6/28/2008 12:23:47 AM

so chembob do you have any idea why they didnt pick you? i mean they didnt give you an explanation but obviously you have to have a theory

6/28/2008 12:24:58 AM

According to 2005 Navy figures, Naval Officer commissioning sources are as follows:

USNA: 749
ROTC: 825
OCS: 586
Direct / Other: 1,346



at that last number!


I tell you what though, I'd hate to be a Naval Officer with that many ring-knockers coming out of the USNA every year.

6/28/2008 12:34:04 AM

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"depends if she's teaching officers or enlisted. if it's the officers, almost all of them came through ROTC or the Academy, where at the very least, through MA 242 (Calc III), and through PY 208 (Engineering Physics II) is required. also, a Naval Engineering is required for ROTC, and the requirements to graduate from Annapolis are even more strict. "

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"the largest percentage of navy officers come from ocs homie "

To be a nuke officer you pretty much need a technical degree, so none of the officer students will be engineering noobs. Out of my interview class of 12, everyone was a college grad - no Academy or ROTC people.

But the classes will be focused on Navy reactor technology, which nobody will have learned in school. That's why they have to go to power school to learn it.

6/28/2008 12:38:26 AM

whats ocs if u dont mind me asking

6/28/2008 12:38:51 AM

Officer Candidate School, 12 week boot camp for officers.

6/28/2008 12:40:22 AM

^^^yup, that's what the school is for.

"no Academy or ROTC people."

we interviewed during the school year - I interviewed this past November because I was scheduled to graduate in May (that didn't happen - totally different story there)

[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 12:40 AM. Reason : .]

6/28/2008 12:40:39 AM

they say that in forest gump...dont know how familiar you are with the movie but the drill sargaent(sp?) is like "i'd recommend you for ocs private gump"

6/28/2008 12:41:28 AM

Interestingly enough, only the department of the Navy (both branches) has that even a spread between Academy, ROTC, and OCS.

Both the USA and the USAF are heavily ROTC, followed by a large OCS crop in the Army.

6/28/2008 12:44:08 AM

which one did nerdchick do? osc or what?

6/28/2008 12:44:56 AM

she is going to do OCS. Future tense.

6/28/2008 12:46:27 AM

wtf i thought she accomplished something important? if shes going to ocs, what happens after that?

6/28/2008 12:47:11 AM

she got accepted in the the Navy's nuke program. That is extremely competitive, so yes she did do something impressive.

OCS is next, when she graduates, she'll be an Ensign in the US Navy.

After that she'll go to a Navy run school that teaches the Navy's nuclear systems.

After that, and any additional necessary schooling, she'll go out into the fleet and do her job.


So, it is only a first step, but an impressive one.

6/28/2008 12:49:55 AM

so technically in like 5 years she might be doing classified government shit etc?

6/28/2008 12:50:35 AM

if she was, it would be classified, and she couldn't discuss it anyway.

6/28/2008 12:51:29 AM

eh, not always. all sorts of shit in my job is classified, and I can talk about some of it as long as I don't spill specific data and stuff (other parts, not so much...I don't talk about them)

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"Interestingly enough, only the department of the Navy (both branches) has that even a spread between Academy, ROTC, and OCS. Both the USA and the USAF are heavily ROTC, followed by a large OCS crop in the Army. "

USMC is heavily OCS (and it is a real rat bastard)...by far the largest fraction. I think something like 60-70%, then another 20%ish from ROTC (who still have to go to OCS for 6 weeks), then the remaining 10% from the USNA.

6/28/2008 1:08:52 AM

^^thats what sucks about classifieds people...i've done that before to 2 people...i was like i bet you do classifieds shit and they are like "i cant discuss it" i'm like dude come on its just me

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"eh, not always. all sorts of shit in my job is classified, and I can talk about some of it as long as I don't spill specific data and stuff"

also true...joychick3 had some guy come over like the day before he went to some place that was shipping him to kuwait...we had a very good convo......dude said usually he cant talk to people but since i knew certain things(by staying up to date) he could tell me

[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 1:11 AM. Reason : l]

6/28/2008 1:10:13 AM