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ded posted:The only real physical hardship of being on a boat is the stores & TDU (weights used for trash disposal) loads.
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Signaleer posted:this is hands down the shittiest job in the military.
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ded posted:Deck & Divers was under the WEPS on my boat. The divers themselves can come from any division. One of our divers was a cook. Two (three?) were nukes.
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Thank you for your well though out and informative contribution.
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On time, some coner burned his speedo undies in the dryer.
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Our dryer was marked DO NOT ADJUST TEMPERATURE HIGHER THAN HERE ->, and he did anyway.
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Fun fact: the poo poo pumps on a sub were originally designed to pump ketchup. Enjoy that burger.  Cerekk posted:There's an anchor in one of the ballast tanks that I have never seen used. I've seen it used, and it broke. They always break.
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One of our freezers took a poo poo during an underway, so we had to "offload" several hundred pounds of meat into the ocean. The sharks ate well that night.
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We surfaced and threw it overboard. Launching it out the torpedo tubes probably would have been more fun.
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Snowdens Secret posted:The Georgia was supposed to but some jerk had dropped a bolt in her reduction gears. quote:When you're not fighting WWIII, submarine roles lean heavily to intelligence gathering and similar sneaky poo poo, so there are probably more 'got shot at' stories out there than 'got to shoot' stories.
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Late 90s, not Desert Storm. http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9711/14/iraq.military/
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http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=attractive+Swedish+female+sailors&FORM=HDRSC2 Might be some  in there.
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And the smells stay with you and on you. Forever.
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More like waking up to the sound of the fairwater planes slapping the surface. I'm surprised the drat things didn't break off.
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Sacrilage posted:anything that requires immediate split-second reflexes to save the ship have been extensively automated, computerized, and interlocked Never served on a first flight 688, have you?  ded posted:If the ship went inverted certain things would become broke in ways that cannot be fixed outside of drydock. 
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Oxford Comma posted:Is there any submarine movie better than Das Boot? Down Periscope.
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Bear Pen? More like Nap Room.
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Coners aren't very creative.
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Officers eat in the ward room. They get nicer dishes and silverware, but the food is the same. True sea story: Cooks put rice in our pizza once , because "we had extra and it looked like the cheese". I guess no one told them that rice doesn't melt. 
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When did they change MS into CS? Stupid navy changing rate names. poo poo, my grandfather was a Baker First Class in WWII.
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The biggest change in our command atmosphere was when a nuke replaced the ST COB. There was a huge good ol' boys coner club, and that poo poo went right the gently caress away.
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Not to mention subs are all volunteers.
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Some of our cooks were actually pretty good when they weren't being lazy. Some were just lazy no matter what. Lobster and steak/prime rib is usually something that's reserved for halfway night on long deployments.
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Our first "class" in A-School was meat recognition. Round - Chicken Square - Fish Oval - Veal I don't remember ever having veal underway. 
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We did a flooding drill one underway, and I'm pretty sure I went from dead asleep in fwd berthing to the engineroom with phones on in about 30 seconds. I guess the big up angle helped with that.
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I think after the whole wikileak thing or some other opsec bullshit, no one can have any personal electronics on board.
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Snowdens Secret posted:I didn't fish off the sub but we had guys who did. That's really an in-port thing, though. If you've been running slow and shallow in warmer waters you get a 'grass skirt' which is a lot of plant life growing off the sides, and wildlife love it.
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The entire engine room is a special kind of classified, and it'll probably never be available to the general public. There's really nothing in there that would be of interest to people. It's just tight spaces, pipes, valves, and other metal poo poo for dumb kids to hurt themselves on.
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We had a nub open the flush valve on the shitter during a blow. Pretty sure there's a NAVSEA instruction that requires that to happen at least once per quarter.
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http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=kimwipe edit: It's the same brand, but the ones on the boat are heavy-duty with plastic threads reenforcing them. Mad Dragon fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Oct 26, 2013 |
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Man Needs Millions to Bring Corpus Christi Submarine to Townquote:CORPUS CHRISTI - A Navy veteran says it would cost $10-$15 million to bring the USS City of Corpus Christi to the coastal bend as a floating museum.
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A-gangers were engineering's bastard children. They had as much poo poo work to do as the nukes, but they didn't get the pro-pay.
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I was in Orlando when they closed the QM (and every other non-nuke) school. 
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http://news.msn.com/us/navy-oks-changes-for-submariners-sleep-schedulesquote:Research by a Navy laboratory in Groton is now leading to changes for the undersea fleet. Military scientists concluded submarine sailors, who traditionally begin a new workday every 18 hours, show less fatigue on a 24-hour schedule, and the Navy has endorsed the findings for any skippers who want to make the switch.
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If I had to stand 8 hours of lower level as a nub, somebody would have died a violent death. Probably me.  The best rotation I had was as the evening watch/drill monitor. I stood watch from 18-24 and did drills in the morning. Of course, six months of ORSE workup loving blew.
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