Talk:Naval Nuclear Power School
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[edit] Women in the Program
The "Women weren't allowed in until 1994" is not accurate. Women were allowed in before that, but were then barred at some point. The reason being (as I was told) that they couldn't serve on war ships and ended up taking all the (highly coveted) shore billets. Sdblair 20:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Notable Alumns
Can we get started on a list of notable alumns? I'm sure the list of well known, high ranking naval officers is endless. Rather, I would like to propose a list of prominent businessmen and others who have gone on to achieve success in their post navy nuc life. Note: The Simpsons creator Matt Groening was never a nuc. I don't know who started this rumor, but there are people out there who believe it to be true.
I had heard that Frank Zappa was a Navy nuke, but can't find any info confirming it. Sdblair 20:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Is this a recruiting advertisement?
This is NOT an attack on the program, its graduates or even the author, but the article sounds suspiciously like a Navy recruiting commmercial. I'm a graduate of the program (started in Orlando back in 1998 and graduated from prototype in Charleston), but virtually everything in this article is really a personal point of view. Is this program demanding? Yes, I found it so (and I do have a BS in mechanical engineering from a civilian university), but I found most of it over-hyped. The real accomplishment of the program is not that they're able to teach students these topics (even though all of the topics listed are in fact taught, they are only touched upon in a basic manner) but the fact that they're able to do it with many young men and women right out of high school at a very rapid pace. This is a result of effective discipline that many in the civilian world can learn from, though I wouldn't categorize it as anything different than the discipline asserted by so many of our servicemembers in other branches and other jobs of the military.Bdmccray (talk) 23:17, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
"It is regarded as one of the most difficult academic programs in the world." Unless something has changed, this is true. When I went NNPS (1992), the school was rated as one of the top schools in the US. MIT and Harvard were listed next to NNPS. However, I do agree the difficultly of the classwork isn't that challenging - it was the amount of classword. I have heard it described as learning two years of content in six months, which as you suggested, requires discipline and devotion and the ability to deal with stress.
Seriously; I will be attending soon, and I have already been through very challenging coursework, having earned degrees in AE (BS) and ME (MS), studying with the brightest minds in my fields of study. I do not doubt for one second that Nuke School is going to be an incredible challenge, and I am looking forward not only to working my ass off, but also to being engaged with extremely bright and ambitious people. However, this article sounds like some high school kid is really proud of his over-sized ego. There is more out there, young friend. Release yourself from the prison of your pride and you will become a more successful engineer than ever imagined :) And per the above comment, WHERE on EARTH is NNPS even listed? Thanks.
P.S. Not that this is a big deal, but if you are going to portray yourself as preeminent, then go through the article and take out any grammatical and/or orthographical errors that appear within. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.60.240.162 (talk) 07:13, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
A previous, anonymous version of this page (which I corrected) stated that anyone with 60 credits will get a degree from NNPS, similar to that from the Naval Academy, once you complete the training. This is simply not true.
If anyone tells you can get a degree from NNPS or NNPTC, they've been misinformed, because it is not a degree-granting institution and is therefore not accredited as such. Additionally, if you do have prior college credits, they need to be focused on the general education portion of your degree (English, History, Humanities, etc.) to give you any added benefit. Otherwise, they will be of no use becasue they either overlap with the NNPTC training or do not apply to the curriculum. A Bachelor's degree is more than just an accumulation of 120 semester-hours of credit. The Naval Academy will not hand you a degree either. In fact, the Naval academy does not grant credit based on ANY source external to itself. If you are accepted to the USNA, its a four-year curriculum. Period.
This doesn't mean that the time spent there is worthless, by any means. I joined the Navy right out of high school, with no prior college and no AP course credits. My college awarded me 75 semester-hours of credit (or 2 1/2 years of equivalent full-time coursework) towards my bachelor's for my 10 months of NNPTC training (as an EM). You get no credits for the 6 months of Prototype training. I CLEP'd 24 more units (4 tests, 6 credits each), took 5 classes through the college (2 of which were 6-credit courses), and was done. Then I put in for Officer Candidate School and got commissioned based on my newly completed BS in Nuclear Engineering Technology. I've since attended the Naval Postgraduate School for their Space Systems Certificate Curriculum and am now attending Embry-Riddle Aeronatical University, finishing up my Master's in Space Studies. I don't regret it one bit. NukeBubblehead (talk) 23:44, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
