text: my friend in the navy says he's doing his  qualification board on sunday to get my dolphins what's that mean?   both chief of nothing and navyav8r are correct. the review board is one of the hardest parts of the qualification process. the questions can be as simple as drawing a diagram to telling the members hpw to take a molecule of water from the ocean and breath it in as air. the board usually lasts several hours but i have seen a few that lasted days. if he fails than he will be allowed to reboard after studying things that he really messed up on. something that navyav8r was not correct about is that on this board the members do not review the comments made by the boardees supervisors. once he passes the board he will be qualified submarines which is a great honor and should instill a large amount of pride in his accomplishment. sts2/ss kris