Naval Reactors

There's someone with no future that became one of the top admirals in the Navy.

He was the second successor to Rickover, who was the director of Naval Reactors.

He did a lot in the nine years he was in that job, but the story has absolutely nothing to do with what he did while he was in the Navy.

It's all about

Interesting.

Yeah, working for naval reactors, and they said no.

Okay.

But funny thing was at that time, I, I was still active duty Navy, and Naval Reactors and I had a decent relationship.

They knew-

Yeah

I went to the Naval Academy.

I was commissioned after college, uh, and, and worked within the Naval Reactors program, which is the nuclear side of the Navy on aircraft carriers and submarines.

And I did that for, for most of my twenties.

From a professional translation, you know, a lot of what I did in, in the submarine aircraft carrier world, business world, you know, is certainly not the same as, as true crime.

I thought I was going on submarines.

Like, that's where I was headed, but then I went to naval reactors, like the headquarters.

But I was, like, I was going, like...

I was gonna, like, go on deployments and stuff.

... 30 seconds longer in perpetuity.

Oh, for sure.

At naval reactors I definitely am the cause of a lot of, uh, extra briefings too.

Yeah.