Troy Eubank:  

CLASS OF 1981
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Portage High SchoolClass of 1981
Portage, IN
Portage, IN
Valparaiso, IN

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Life Deb Klyczek (a fellow alum) and I married in Oct. 81. That same year, I joined the Navy (June), trained as an Electronics Tech and Reactor Operator and went to sea on a nuclear fast attack sub (USS Ray SSN 653). I visited among other places, US VIs,Bermuda,Puerto Rico,England,Scotland,Ireland, & North Pole! (Check out my Military Bio for more) From 87-90 I worked for Commonwealth Edison in IL as an Engineering Technician at Braidwood Nuclear Power Plant From 90-98 I worked as a contract engineer near San Luis Obispo, CA for an outfit called Sun Technical Services at Diablo Canyon Power Plant. I then worked in IL with the same co. as a Database Administrator and Application Developer at Clinton Power Station. I went from there to MI doing the same at D.C. Cook Nuclear Plant Then I went to AL doing similar work for a scheduling group for a reactor restart project at Browns Ferry Nuclear Generating Facility, just outside of Huntsville. I did a short stint at Watts Bar in TN to help develop a preliminary schedule for a "re-constrruction" project. (Check out my Work Bio for more) After being married nearly 20 years, Deb and I had our first child, a son, on June 15, 2001. This is without a doubt, outside of the saving grace of the Lord, the coolest thing I've experienced! He is, of course, the smartest, most well adjusted, and best looking kid on the planet! Maybe I'm a little biased here (ya' think?). Deb and I opened our own video store in 2003! It's wasn't a huge operation, but it was fun. We sold it in 2006, although it was moderately profitable, it just took too much time! I'd Love to hear from anyone, feel free to write me. Workplace Under construction . . . Sorry, I'll get back to this soon. I was considering being brief, but what the heck!? I'll go through the whole list! The early jobs were largely worked only in the summer months for obvious reasons. My first real payroll job was working at Woodland Park in Portage, IN. This wasn't a glamorous job to say the least. I spent most of the summer raking leaves in what seemed a never ending rain of them from the park's oak trees. I also worked at the South Haven Little League Field which proved quite a bit more enjoyable and left me and another teenage co-worker unsupervised for much of the summer. I can't believe we actually worked most of the time! I worked for a summer and part of my senoir year at the Portage Schools Service Center when it was still located at the old Chrisman building. This was a great job for a teen. Like probably a third of teens during the late 70's and Early 80's, I did a stint at McDonald's (the Central Ave. Mac's in Portage). After this, it was into the Navy for six years, you can read more about this in my military bio. More Later . . . Military What a ride that was! I enlisted in July of 1980 and spent 11 months on delayed entry (DEP) so I could finish high school. From there it was off to Orlando for boot camp. That was a smart move ;-) I spent the summer in the swealtering heat of Florida marching, doing countless push-ups, and generally being humiliated. This is nothing unusual for mili...Expand for more
tary recruits of course, but it's something you never forget either! I stayed in Orlando for another 5 weeks after boot camp for Basic Electricity & Electronics School (BE&E). Then I was off to Electronics Tech 'A' School in Great Lakes, IL. This was a 6 month school. I made 3rd Class while attending. I actually used quite a bit of what I learned there throughout my Navy enlistment and even afterwards. That is except for my Radar Training that was conducted with an old SPS 10 model radar. I got married during this time as well (Oct. 81). I got a couple months of 'easy' duty in Orlando before moving on to what has to be one of the toughest training schools around, Navy Nuclear Power School (Class 8206). At that time it was in Orlando, FL. Some of the courses included were Heat Transfer & Fluid Flow (Thermodynamics), Chemistry, Materials (a Physical Science type class), a hodge-podge of mathamatics, Reactor Physics, etc. For the first time I actually HAD to learn to study. This wasn't necessarily because of the curriculum. Although the subject matter demanded some attention, it was the pace at which you were expected to absorb it that made it difficult. They crammed all of it into just six months! All in all, I did pretty well I guess. If memory serves, I scored a 3.42 overall. I managed to make 2nd Class before graduating. Then it was of to Ballston Spa, New York (Knolls Atomic Power Lab) where I learned about operating a Nuclear Propulsion Plant at the 'Modifications & Additions to Reactor Facilities' (MARF) Prototype. Didn't do as well as I should have here (to many parties with the guys), but I did qualify and moved on to my Fleet assignment on the USS Ray (SSN 653), a Nuclear Fast Attack sub out of Charleston, SC. We were in the yards shortly after I arrived, but when we left the yards we certainly made up for it with plenty of sea-time. The highlight of my duty there was ICEX86, an under ice expedition at the North Pole. We did surface a couple of times and everyone got a chance to make a trek out onto the ice. We surfaced with two other subs and got our picture taken by an AP plane (I'm pretty sure that's what that was since there was a picture of us at the Pole in various papers upon our return). You can see this photo in the Navy Submarines books you find at B&N book stores. I actually enjoyed being a reactor operator on a sub! However, I must admit, I always knew I wouldn't make a career of it. A couple of things I learned were; In the Marines every man is a rifleman first ... In the Navy, every man is a janitor first!; and Work it may, shine it must! Kidding aside, the job those guys do is rediculously low paying, but incredibly demanding and important. Thank God for lifers! I made first class about 15 months before my EAOS in June, 1987. In closing, I consider myself lucky to have been a part of the Navy during my enlistment and met men I'll consider close friends for the rest of my life even though we seldom or never contact each other. Dennis, if you read this, I just want you to know I take that letter of recommendation you penned everywhere I go, Thanks!
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