Where is the SS designation for qualified submariners, eg ET Nuc SS?

2016-02-22T12:52:56-05:00

Response by PO1 Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 22 at 2016 12:58 PM

2016-02-22T12:58:08-05:00

You mean for your rank? Like, PO2 (SS) Thomas Sturgeon?

They don't have any warfare designations on this site as far as I know.

Response by LT John Graves made Feb 23 at 2016 5:47 AM

2016-02-23T05:47:38-05:00

The SS designation is after you are qualified. I don't know if is still the same but back in the day you had the designation of SU before you qualified.

Response by SCPO Ken Badoian made Feb 23 at 2016 7:28 AM

2016-02-23T07:28:55-05:00

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

Response by PO3 Ronnie Blanchard made Feb 23 at 2016 7:38 AM

2016-02-23T07:38:36-05:00

Charleston,SC.

Response by PO1 Donald Hammond made Feb 23 at 2016 8:05 AM

2016-02-23T08:05:13-05:00

Where is it? As in their title? I am (was) EM1(SS). Does that help?

Response by PO1 Bob Fields made Feb 23 at 2016 8:09 AM

2016-02-23T08:09:33-05:00

Are you really asking how to show you are SS qualified?
In the Navy we rarely referenced PO2, but you would have been ET2 and IF you were Submarine Qualified, you would have shown it as ET2(SS).

Response by PO2 Thomas Sturgeon made Feb 23 at 2016 11:10 AM

2016-02-23T11:10:58-05:00

I the answers are being overnuked. I am qualified. Since PO2 was supplied during setup, It is a correct, although incomplete designation. I assumed that I missed something in the wizard, and I get the sense that the answers assume that I am not qualified or that I would purposely only want the PO2 nomenclature.

Response by CPO Mike Castro made Feb 23 at 2016 3:36 PM

2016-02-23T15:36:52-05:00

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 :)

Response by PO2 Thomas Sturgeon made Feb 23 at 2016 7:22 PM

2016-02-23T19:22:05-05:00

. That is ETMS, i.e. Electronics Technician Maintenance school, which is Microminature Repair, essentially.

Response by CMDCM Gene Treants made Feb 23 at 2016 10:34 PM

2016-02-23T22:34:15-05:00

Actually, we are rather limited as to what we can select as our description or rate and designation in Navy (and probably other services also). I Qualified Surface Warfare in 1979, yet there is nothing that allows me to use that designator or any other. One other problem is my rate itself, yes I am a MCPO, BUT my last 4 tours were as a Command Master Chief and I was designated as such by BUPERS. Technically I am not an ETCM, but there is no choice for CMDCM or even CMC, so I worked with what was available.

Long way of saying - NO, there is no place to show SS, or SW, or any other Warfare here yet that I can find.

Response by PO2 Michael Galey made Feb 24 at 2016 12:24 AM

2016-02-24T00:24:51-05:00

They are ET (SS) wither they are reactor tech's or electronic related tech's the designation is SS Sub Surface. The ship board qualified are SWE surface warfare enlisted or SWO for officers.

Response by CPO Doug Smith made Feb 25 at 2016 12:55 PM

2016-02-25T12:55:58-05:00

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.