Navy Petty Officer Dalton Larabee completes nuclear power course

CHESHIRE -- Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Dalton J. Larabee, son of Michael and Lynn Larabee of Dublin Road, has graduated from the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Power School at Naval Nuclear Power Training Command in Goose Creek, S.C.

Nuclear Power School is a rigorous six-month course that trains officers and enlisted students in the science and engineering fundamental to the design, operation and maintenance of naval nuclear propulsion plants.

Graduates next undergo additional instruction at a prototype training unit before serving as a surface warfare officer aboard a nuclear-powered surface ship or as an electronics technician aboard a nuclear-powered submarine.

Larabee is a 2009 graduate of Hoosac Valley High School in Cheshire.