Little more detail on Nukes

[scott.henry]

If you are a US citizen you are eligible for the Nuke program. Your clearance might take a little longer to come through than most, but your parents citizenship does not affect your eligibility.

[PropertyofBuMed]

Only 1 year 2 months of actual school.. A bonus..and you basically cap up to second when you make tir? Nuke life sounds great.

My situation is: come in as an e1 with no bonus.. 2 years of school, no auto avdancement to e4.. No star.

All yall joining as nukes are very fortunate regardless of what anyone says

[DirtyYellow]

Originally Posted by scott.henry

If you are a US citizen you are eligible for the Nuke program. Your clearance might take a little longer to come through than most, but your parents citizenship does not affect your eligibility.

I've been reading through these threads from various sources for about a year now but I just made an account because I saw this particular post.

I enlisted as a Nuke last year around August, and concerning the whole having parents from a different country thing, it won't really complicate things. I'm from the Philippines and so are my parents, the only real issue was that 1) It took a year to get my security clearance. 2) My parents are divorced and one isn't a citizen and we lost track of him. And 3)Passports. In my case, I had 3 passports plus a green card. When my passports expired and had to get updated, it made a crap ton of problems because it implies that I had dual citizenship. Anyways my recruiters said it would be fine but at MEPs they said they can't give me Nuke until this all got sorted out. So I flew out from Georgia to San Francisco to go to the consulate to renounce any form of allegiance to the Philippines and also giving up my passports and getting a piece of paper stating I did so. Anyways, once all of that was done, it was a legit waiting game and a few chats with the investigator. Other than that I'm off the hook and will be shipping this Tuesday July 11th for boot camp as a Nuke.
Good luck to you, hope you make it too!