Replacement of Australia's Collins Class Submarines

[BlackBat242]

"Training was not rigorous enough, in that there were no individual examination failures, nor were there any overall question failures." ​

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Written tests for nukes are expected to be so hard that someone MUST fail, and one question per exam is supposed to be so difficult that NO ONE gets it right. (failing a question means that you get assigned extra lessons on whatever that question covered, failing a test means you get those extra lessons for every question.)​

Or it was felt that the training program had been lessened in strength and/or depth in order to either make the students look better or to give the department head or CO something to polish their resume with - "every boat but ours had test failures, see how complete and effective our training is?"

 

[Rickshaw]

The whippings will continue until morale improves...

"Nail that man's foot to the deck, Mr.Crisp!"

 

[Scott Kenny]

The whippings will continue until morale improves...

The ship's office on Kentucky Gold gave the new XO a t-shirt that said that...

Or it was felt that the training program had been lessened in strength and/or depth in order to either make the students look better or to give the department head or CO something to polish their resume with - "every boat but ours had test failures, see how complete and effective our training is?"

As the Squadron Nukes explained, it's a requirement from Naval Reactors that the tests have at least one person fail and at least one F-U question per test.