MMS question

sweetmtn · 03-18-2012, 12:39 PM

As a Machinist Mate you are a mechanic, you probably will go to A school for that rate, either before or after sub school. Might be after your A school since if you fail sub school you will be just sent to fleet to any other ship needing a MM. Just for info, my son said that MM's on the ship he was on worked right along side the MM(nukes) just didnt get nuke pay or perks.

prop827 · 03-18-2012, 05:33 PM

You'll go to MM A school and then to sub school. If you don't make it through sub school, you'll just go to a ship as an MM. You will work along side the nukes, but you can't work on certain things they can that deal directly with the reactor plant itself and you stand different watches then the nukes (theirs deal with the reactor, yours would be related to more secondary systems).

Jnewman16 · 03-18-2012, 06:36 PM

I understand that... I was told from my recruiters that i'll go to sub school immediately following bootcamp.. during Sub school they will designate you either weapons or axillary.. Would your axillary or weapons training be considered C schools. My brother is a nuke MM so he has told me all about a-gang.. lol

03-18-2012, 12:39 PM	#1
sweetmtn Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: N. CA Posts: 3,792 Rep Power: 0	As a Machinist Mate you are a mechanic, you probably will go to A school for that rate, either before or after sub school. Might be after your A school since if you fail sub school you will be just sent to fleet to any other ship needing a MM. Just for info, my son said that MM's on the ship he was on worked right along side the MM(nukes) just didnt get nuke pay or perks.

03-18-2012, 05:33 PM	#2
prop827 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 633 Rep Power: 0	You'll go to MM A school and then to sub school. If you don't make it through sub school, you'll just go to a ship as an MM. You will work along side the nukes, but you can't work on certain things they can that deal directly with the reactor plant itself and you stand different watches then the nukes (theirs deal with the reactor, yours would be related to more secondary systems).

03-18-2012, 06:36 PM	#3
Jnewman16 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Jackson, Ms Posts: 38 Rep Power: 0	I understand that... I was told from my recruiters that i'll go to sub school immediately following bootcamp.. during Sub school they will designate you either weapons or axillary.. Would your axillary or weapons training be considered C schools. My brother is a nuke MM so he has told me all about a-gang.. lol