What's Better Than Joining Starfleet?

posted on June 22nd, 2005, 1:24 am

As of Friday 17 June I'm an Officer Candidate PO1 in the United States Navy. Going to be a nuclear-trained surface officer. We don't have matter/antimatter reaction assemblies or phasers, but we do have uranium fueled fission reactors and Tomahawk and Standard missiles, so pretty close. I'm going to be commissioned soon after the new year and am going straight to the Fleet for a tour before Nuke School and a follow-on tour in the reactor department of 4.5 acres and 100,000 tons of American resolve.

Any natural-born American citizens with strong backgrounds in math and physics and a desire to serve should definitely check out the program.

posted on June 22nd, 2005, 1:41 am

good for you!

be carfule about tolking about sub stats most of us sub oprations are clasifed.. sub work is tuff work but you will lern alot and get to viset far away places.

posted on June 22nd, 2005, 11:37 am

lol, ewm most of the us subs they will stick a private teen on are not classified, and also good luck to you, i am becoming an electronic einginerr for the Royal Air Force in two years time when i finish extended education.

posted on June 22nd, 2005, 11:56 am

well i am getting my diploma the 6th of juli and then i am officially a chemical analyst and then another 3 years of studying and i will be head of a chemical lab ordering projects and stuff

posted on June 22nd, 2005, 3:23 pm

Woo Hoo, another nuclear convert!! I've been going to school for nuclear engineering for years already. I know alot of friends that have gone into the navy. Apparently, its very easy to find a job afterwards that pays loads of $$. Do you have to complete a BS in nuclear engineering, or are you going to be a nuclear technician? If you need a BS, may I suggest the UW-Madison's nuclear engineering program, we're always ranked in the top two or three.

By the way, any real spaceship we can launch that can travel to mars or beyond is gonna have nuclear reactors on board.

posted on June 22nd, 2005, 6:15 pm

actually ion drive, as it doesn't need much to activate it and it always continue to accelerate.

but anyway i had numerous alles from N-korea, Iran and Irak for a job

posted on June 22nd, 2005, 6:24 pm

lol i bet you did.

posted on June 22nd, 2005, 6:52 pm

Ion drive powered by an rtg or a nuclear reactor. This is commonly called nuclear electric as opposed to nuclear thermal. The ion drives we've been testing (NASA, ESA) can only zoom around between mars and the sun cause of the decrease in sunlight available past those points.

Personally, I think one of the reasons nuclear engineers get paid as well as they do is cause the govt. doesn't want em to work for the "axis of evil." Its kinda like we're blackmailing our own govt.

posted on June 22nd, 2005, 6:55 pm

ewm, I'm not going to be on subs, my career will be split between conventionally powered surface ships and aircraft carriers. My security clearance is basically for technical details of the plant, not operations. Everyone tends to know we're there, even if they don't know quite where exactly : )

cpt neutron, I'm an electrical engineer, but at some point down the road the Navy will sponsor me for a graduate degree in nuclear engineering at MIT, UTenn, or a few others (not real sure about the list).

As far as the spaceship thing goes, modern ships are going "all-electric" which means the boiler or reactor creates steam which directly drives electrical generators. That electricity can be used to power motors attached to the propellors, or the propulsion grid of an ion drive in a spacecraft, or anything else electrical. Pretty neat stuff.

posted on June 23rd, 2005, 9:17 am

congrats (suluts)

posted on June 23rd, 2005, 12:17 pm

well if you are smart a nuff for get m,i,t, go for indeon universaty thats wher m,i,t, techers come from and heds of microsoft. indeon unviserty is the tufist in the world if you can get thow that you will be set for life.

such as i here from 60 minets.

thare are things beter than m,i,t,.

posted on June 25th, 2005, 3:00 am

thare are things beter than m,i,t,.

i strongly doubt that.