![]() My actual discharge date was February 11, so I actually overlapped for ten days. I started terminal leave on January 30, 2006, and I started my new job with Baker Atlas on February 2, 2006. I used low frequency sound energy to help locate, evaluate, and exploit petroleum reserves both on land and offshore. My first position through Orion was in the oil and gas service industry as a Seismic Engineer. And that is to learn how to succeed in your new field. You find yourself trying so hard to impress that sometimes you forget your new mission. So, with all this training and experience, I understood sonar systems and how to make them work but to be honest, starting a new job with different performance metrics and expectations was nerve-wracking. I spent my shore time at Naval Submarine Base New London at the Naval Submarine School (staff and student) and in the Naval Nuclear Power Training Program at Weapons Station Charleston, South Carolina (student). My seagoing tours were at Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Washington, onboard USS NEVADA (SSBN-733(B)), and at Naval Station Ingleside, Texas, with MCM CREW BULWARK (onboard USS CHIEF AND USS SENTRY). I served both as a Mineman Third class (MN3) and as a Sonar Technician Third Class (STS3). ![]() ![]() Leaving the Navy after seven years was frightening when you consider that the Navy was really the only job (or practical experience) that I had held to that point. Facing the uncertainty associated with change is the hardest part of transitioning out of the military. Crossing the brow for the last time and being rung ashore was one of the most bittersweet moments of my life, and I still look back on that as the day my world changed. ![]()
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