Posted on Feb 22, 2016
Where is the SS designation for qualified submariners, eg ET Nuc SS?
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Use only get the SS (qualified submarines after you complete an extensive study of all the boats systems. I qualified both SS on a diesel boat and requalified on two nukes. The diesel was much harder. Reporting aboard they issued you a drawing pad colored pencils and told you to go to it. I worked in the engine room but had to learn to fire torpedoes, etc. After you fill out your qual book (took me six months) you were then blind folder and walked thru the boat. As you walked thru the chief would place your hand on this or that and you would ID'd it and if a system valve explain what it was where it went to and how, if possible, where you could isolated it. If you passed you were awarded your dolphins. The old way of wetting down was to fill a pitcher with a mix of booze drop your dolphins in, chug-a- lug and catch them in your teeth. Then they were pinned on your chest - actually pinned. sharp points thru your shirt. Nuke boats were and are more complex and you had system drawing provided. Still had to trace, draw, do a walk thru. Each class of boat is different and individual boats of the same class might vary. Now the pinning ceremony is politically correct. Get the picture. Diesel boats forever (DBF). I was a nuke from a diesel boat - did not quite fit in - guess I was too old boat Navy. Still enjoyed the boats but went surface abnd was one of the first enlisted sailors to be surface qualified. The SW is a mini version of the SS. MMCS(SS)(SW) USN Ret
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PO1 Donald Hammond
I had most fun being put in a blacked out EAB and had to go from the forward end to the aft end and then rig a fire hose without taking the mask off.
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MCPO Roger Collins
Not much I can disagree with in your post SCPO Ken Badolan. I followed much the same track as you did with the diesels (3), FBMs (2) and SSNs (assigned twice to the same boat). Engineman for the first five years, couldn't make E-6, so I converted to RM. Where I made RM1 first time up. Since there is no designator for RM any more my profile indicates ET and no place to state the (SS) we are all so familiar with. Good to see your post, not many of us left.
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First of all, Nuc is not a designator, just a field, like AEF ( Advanced Electronics Field)
Secondly, the correct form of the term is Fuckin Nuc. Ask any Bubblehead.
As for the Submarine designators, they go just after the rate/rating, eg, MM3 ( SU) for a non qualified Submariner before earning his dolphins, or ETC ( SS) for a fully qualified Submariner.
Secondly, the correct form of the term is Fuckin Nuc. Ask any Bubblehead.
As for the Submarine designators, they go just after the rate/rating, eg, MM3 ( SU) for a non qualified Submariner before earning his dolphins, or ETC ( SS) for a fully qualified Submariner.
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MCPO Roger Collins
Nailed it! But, what do I know, I have been a member of the Holland Club for over a decade.
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PO2 Thomas Sturgeon
I just wanted a checkbox on this site for SS, you coner, rackburned shower queens. Go back to your cribbage game.
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I'm just a ordinary everyday Boatswain Mate who finds it entertaining that someone can figure out a Nuclear Submarine yet have thier butt kicked by a website :)
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PO2 Thomas Sturgeon
I agree, but the site has options for ET NAV, ET COM, ET NUC which seem to have a rough correspondence to Navy NECs. So the intended questions is "Why are all the NECs not represented as a site option?"
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