The Chicken of the Sea

[Lissa]

Depending on what the "measuring point" is for the failure rate, like Boot Camp or first day in ROTC or OCS, I can see how the winnowing down would occur. Good to know the Nuke program still has excruciatingly high standards. That is a good thing. :D

Occhi

The failure rate may have decreased now as well considering that when I got those numbers the Navy was in a draw down, as you well know, so they may have made things more difficult then because there were less Boomers and Fast Attack out there and a lot of the aging CGNs were being replaced with non-nuclear CGs without a serious decrease in the number of Nuke people. I can't remember off the top of my head, but didn't they also mothball 5 CVNs? Seem to remember during DS 1 there were 12 CVNs and last I heard there were only 7 CVNs operating.