YKTV: A Glimpse at Life after Nuke School

In this episode of YKTV, hear how Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum volunteers are preparing Sailors in the Navy's Nuclear Power Training Command for life after graduation.
This video is part of the YKTV Series produced on the USS YORKTOWN at the Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum. Please follow us on Facebook and Twitter and check out our website: www.patriotspoint.org
Museum is located at 40 Patriots Point Road in Mount Pleasant, SC. 843-884-2727

[@What_Ive_Learned]

These are my classmates. Most of these EMN3s including me transferred from prototype yesterday and are headed to the fleet. Best of luck mates! -EMN3 Croos Poos

[@tristanpickett3454]

How are you doing now lmao

[@AGUYUGA]

@@tristanpickett3454 ngl he's probably still at sea, considering he's doing 8 and out for the bonus.

[@jdrhc63we67]

It is a great program new nukes get to see a lot of what they have been learning about and the staff sent with them can lend hands own knowledge to the museum team to increase understanding

[@jdrhc63we67]

This was really cool we saw this then went to prototype and saw its mechanical descends

[@dennyjay4252]

I learned all of my history post high school and college

[@jorden9821]

Didn't we all

[@dennyjay4252]

@@jorden9821 I can only speak for myself but it’s great you did too.

[@ray3johnson]

I never got this training. I did prototype training on the S5G. It was in a big swimming pool and it looked just like a the back half of a sub. I went to the USS Ethan Allen SSBN 608 (Blue) without any sub school. This was in the mid 70's. ETR2(SS)

[@ray3johnson]

I joined the Navy under the Electronics program. I was commited to a 6 year enlistment. Boot camp was where I was asked to go nuke the to go for subs. Being at the S5G prototype I saw the engineering half of the sub. Learning about the rest of the sub was not that hard.

[@ronhoff1869]

I trained at the A1W facility from 75-76 and stayed over for ELT school before being assigned to the Long Beach, CGN-9

[@jdrhc63we67]

When I went through 2 years ago it was a couple people a week most people that wanted to go got to but no one was forced

[@SaltiDawg2008]

Due to a failure to obtain funds, Clamagore is slated to be towed to Florida this Fall (2018) and be sunk to create an artificial reef. It is a terrible ending for a fine old girl that I used to see in New London, CT, in the 1960s and 1970s. "Clamagore was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark on 29 June 1989." Sad that this Association couldn't meet its responsibilities!

[@jdrhc63we67]

That's sadly the way it wlways goes we can do the best we can but nature always returns are efforts the earth in the end

[@theairmenrager6556]

my grandfather flew for the navy during ww2

[@WootTootZoot]

and boy were his arms tired

[@2yoked70]

WootTootZoot tired from being that gawk gawk master 5000!

[@IntubateU]

As a former US submariner, seeing the state of USS Clamagore (SS-343) today was very disappointing. Pretty much the entire superstructure aft of the sail between the two PUFFS hydrophones is missing... consumed by rust, and big chunks of superstructure in other places also rusted away. One can only guess what sorry shape she's in on the inside. I sure wish you had put as much effort into taking care of her as you do in taking care of Yorktown and Laffey. But I guess Yorktown and Laffey are your money makers, so they got the preservation efforts. Anyway, the years of neglect are painfully obvious and have sadly destined her to your plan to sink her offshore of south Florida. There are many other US submarines on display around the country that are as old or older, some in much more hostile climates, and none of them are in such a sad state of neglect. USS Becuna for instance in Philadelphia. She's slightly older than Clamagore and often has to contend with a frozen Delaware River, and she's nowhere in the shape that you let Clamagore get to. Shame on you Patriots Point!

[@ericrand6276]

No offense intended. Why is there an Army guy at the beginning of this?

[@navy4735]

the nukes.....we had 3 in our basic training division.....talk about major f ups.....and man did we pay....

[@navy4735]

they just did some things that were considered really dumb in boot camp, like stuffing their socks underneath their racks 1 min before inspection and other dumb things.

[@WootTootZoot]

They get the job because they are smart. Past that, not much more to say. How was the flight deck job you had ?

[@sWaGGaKiiD234]

WootTootZoot How do you just assumed what his rate is? LMAO

[@WootTootZoot]

Two reasons, 1. Some people can extrapolate from incomplete data.

[@martinperalta-peterson6477]

were you an enlist or a commissioned officer?

[@hectorcastro5758]

Wooo I went there!

[@sluggotg]

"80% of the equipment used on this WW2 sub is used on Modern Aircraft Carriers"... Absolute BS. Do you think for a Minute that would Propel an Aircraft Carrier? It is hard to even get into specifics due to the Classified Nature of Nuclear Power Plants in the Navy. But NO you are not using WW2 Tech to power Modern Nuclear Powered Carriers. The First Nuclear Powered Vessel was the Nautilus. The Prototype for it was S1W.. In Idaho Falls ID. It first went Critical, (ie Started up), in 1953. I was there qualifying in 1983 for the 30th anniversary. Are they trying to say.. It was a steam plant therefore it is the same as a Nuclear Power Plant,.... (80% of a Nuke Plant??). In WW2 the vast majority of Subs were Diesel. Steam Plants have been around for a very long time.. Pimping out how "Valuable" getting a tour of a WW2 Sub is to learning about Nuclear Power is kinda Silly. I went to "A School" in Great Lakes.. they had a 600 Pound plant and a 1200 pound plant. (Engine Rooms removed from ships that we stood watch in and learned about how to operate, Fix and Maintain. Yes that was great "Non Nuclear " Training. Once again.. that seems to be replaced with "A tour of a WW2 Sub". I really enjoyed getting a tour (with a bunch of civilians), of a WW2 Sub in Hawaii. It was cool, (my Ship pulled in at the start of my first Westpac.. (the USS Enterprise). I was shocked to see the exact same Sound Powered phones etc. But it has nothing in common with Reactors. (Still Very Cool). Between "A school" and Nuke School.. I was stationed on a WW2 Salvage Ship for about 5-6 months... Great to learn about Diesel Electric... and I overhauled one of their Firepumps... when I was 19 fresh out of "A School".. (They were DG guys.. I was An MM and grew up in my Dad's Machine Shop and as a Mechanic.. Yes I am Bragging.. The Engine Men Could not do it so this "Baby Nuke" pulled it off. I had a lot of challenges before Nuke School .. but my time on that WW2 salvage ship taught me a Lot, (ARS-41 the USS Opportune). I had some mortal Enemies... (Because I was a Baby Nuke.. some of them hated Nukes), but it gave me the experience of living on a ship, working with some great people, (Great Officers on that ship.. Miss You Captain Grey, Chief Engineer Hassle and the XO who I can't remember his name!). But back then that was the standard for many Nukes... Temp Duty on a ship for 5 months. Now.. "A Tour of a WW2 Sub" and your ready for a Modern Carrier??

[@squarebobspongeshirt6254]

sluggotg what’s life like with jobs after u got out?