07-24-2006, 07:50 PM
Quote:One thing to note on this, this is probably they hardest area to get into in the Navy. If you get in, you're pretty much set. Realize this as well, the Nuke school has a 70% (80%?) failure rate so if you don't make it, don't be to hard on yourself as I know former Navy ROTC that got their degrees in Nuclear Engineering (did very well in their Nuke classes) and failed out of the school (and we were taught by some of the best Nuclear Profs in civilian life).How recent is this metric? Are you talking officer training or enlisted training, or both?
Out of just under 100 of my classmates who went nuke power from the Naval Academy, about two dozen didn't make the cut. Of course, this was 20+ years ago. The Navy has been, for some years, attempting to improve their screening processes so that attrition rates from training are lower than what you cited.
Put a different way, what's your source?
As a point of reference, Navy flight training attrition (once one got through the screening gates) from all causes for about a 4 year period (2001-2005) from all causes ran in the 15-25 percent range. That included medical, performance, and quitting as inputs.
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete