Need Help With U.s. Navy Design

[Heiney]

I was going to use Chicago screws to attach the hardware to the liner so that the screws don't go all the way through the spine.

The finished piece is what I'm going off of.

[Wade D]

Hey there, Heiney,

I was a Nuke in the Navy, also (and I'm also from AZ!).

I started boot camp 18 years ago tomorrow, and Boot Camp was solely in Great Lakes, IL by then. Our A-School and Power School was down in Orlando, FL. How long your A-School takes will depend on whether you're an EM, MM, or ET. When I went through, I requested the ET rating, and they gave me the EM rating. Anybody that asked for MM pretty much got it. I started A-School down there in January '97 (it's 16 weeks, finished May '97), and I finished Power School (24 weeks) around January of '98. When I Went through, Prototype was either in Ballston Spa, NY, or Charleston, SC. Apparently everything's down in Charleston now: A-School, Power School, Prototype. I finished Prototype July 31, '98, and when we filled out our dream sheet for where we wanted our first assignment, I requested a sub out of San Diego (my dad was a retired bubblehead, and he was west coast his whole career). Well, they sent me to the IKE out of Virginia (opposite coast, opposite side of the water).

The training is extremely rigorous and intense, to be sure! I Wont' go into the gory details (don't want to dissuade you from following your chosen path), but the studying is rough. You'll learn come March or April what 30-5 study hours are... If you want some advice on it, hit me up with a PM.

As to a design for your journal, you could try the nuclear trefoil symbol that they use on radiation warnings.It looks something like this:

Other than that, you could just make the design something personal.

If you want to include a fouled anchor, you could do one of these:

or these:

Maybe they could overlap, or one could be the front of the journal, one the back, or something like that.

Hope those ideas help somewhat. gain, if you want any advice regarding boot camp or the Nuke program, hit me up with a PM (though keep in mind I went through it well over 15 years ago now).

~Wade

Oh, I didn't even realize you'd already tooled up the design. And it looks awesome, by the way!

[capsterdog]

When I did a binder a few years back I found screws that were the same threading as the conchos I used and it worked great. I also used a small washer. the concho gave it a little bling on the spine and it holds well with some loc tight.