Lurker wrote: Maybe they should let the Navy go into the electrical power generation business for profit.
Guys, go inside a Nuke and you'll see quite a few former swabbies and Dolpins, espescially in maintenance, and usually the entire operating staff in the control room.
I've done a little work inside over the past ten years, I've never been in the military. But I now speak the phonic alphabet, give the Orders of the Day and insist everyone follow the posted SOP on all jobs I lead.
On the other hand, I've seen civilian management types order questionable, but discreet, short cuts to get a reactor back online at the end of a refuel outage. There are always those who think revenue over procedure.
I'll never live downwind, inside the dead zone of a Nuke.
Good luck with that: which way IS "downwind"?
So I got that going for me.
L