SpiderSchwein

I actually think if anything, Kant allowed for space for religious faith because it belongs to the category of knowledge that we can't ever understand through experience. In his first Kritik, he sets off to study what is knowable and what isn't through experience. We can't ever user our faculties to understand religous faith and it doesn't exist in the phenomenal world, but that doesn't debunk it, rather we don't have the capability of ever learning more about it in an enlightened way.

I was an ICBM Crew Commander in the Air Force a few years back. My biggest challenge was actually how to leave this job and enter a new career.

How did you cope with the hamster wheel effect of the mission at large and how did you communicate your skill set to potential employers who have absolutely no idea what it takes to do this mission?

Your presence and reliability IS the mission. Other fields have tangible metrics that they can judge success by- x number sorties flown, % budget saved, etc. In the nuclear field, we don’t really have that luxury. Other fields- contracting, maintenance, acquisitions- those have pretty easy to translate skills for the civilian world. As a missileer, you’re meticulously trained in several different facets of operations- be they weapon system technical aspects, code handling, EWO, but your most successful day is a day that nobody hears about your day. I found that this was a very difficult aspect to explain to potential employers when I left the Air Force- my biggest accomplishments I had on my OPR that made total sense to someone in the nuclear field, had very limited applicability to those outside that career field, even to people in the wider Air Force community, they have no frame of reference for what it is you actually do. I really had to get creative to explain what something like code change is and what it means to successfully run it. Offering statistics that are self explanatory in other fields are completely worthless in this role. You can say ‘I pulled 200 alerts’ but unless you break down what that entails, it’s challenging to get potential employers to understand exactly how these skills are relevant for the job you’re applying for, even though they’re super important unteachable skills that different organizations can really benefit from. You have to go all in on the soft skill fit, but that only goes so far and it’s exceedingly difficult to get your foot in the door or have a place take a chance on you. It was a very difficult transition period and many other former missileers I served with had exactly this same problem.

How did your personnel in your career field handle separation and getting this extraordinarily specific skill set to transfer?

Bonus question if you have time: In a sub does the entire crew have to be on PRP? Was it only those who have to do EWO stuff?

I worked in land-based ICBMs. The answer to your question is a resounding no.

Which movie/show set onboard a sub do people think is the best and/or the most accurate?

As good as your version ended up being, I've got to say that maybe they should have just stuck with what was originally on the page there.