POTTSTOWN PA – U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class James N. Rodenbaugh, the son of James and Elizabeth Rodenbaugh of Juniper Street, has graduated from the Navy’s Nuclear Power School in Goose Creek SC.

The school presents 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.

Rodenbaugh is a 2009 graduate of Upper Merion Area High School in King of Prussia PA.