Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Richard J. Bousquet Jr. has graduated from the U.S. Navy’s Enlisted 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 officer 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 an Electronics Technician, Machinist’s Mate, or Electrician’s Mate aboard a nuclear-powered submarine or surface warfare ship.

Bousquet is the son of Susan and Richard Bousquet Sr. of Coventry. He is a 2005 graduate of Bishop Hendricken High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 2011 from the University of Rhode Island.