Originally Posted by
HoursHore
Carter was a submariner, but never finished nuke school. He started but resigned his commission to run the peanut farm after his fathers death.
He did work under Rickover during the development of submarine nuclear propulsion, and served in the engineering department of the first nuclear USS Seawolf (the one with the sodium primary loop) during her precomissioning. I have seen his name in the engineering logbook of that ship.
I think you're right that he didn't finish the school, but the school was just getting set up when he made his contributions to the program...so I think it's fair to consider him "OG".