remember your first day on the boat?
this is not the navy i was expecting. having spent the last two years of my life working through the nuke pipeline, i'd never seen anything like this. i WAS NOT PREPARED for the culture change.
of course, it was all a show put on for the two new guys, with the role of Engineer played by one of my new division mates. took a couple of days to figure it out though, because the eng and greg both went on leave as soon as liberty was set.
so here are a couple of posts by a submariner OLDER than me. he was both a DBFer and a nuke.
check out WELCOME TO SUBMARINES, and then read the second installment HOT BUNKING.
i may have been on the 575, which was a nuke boat, but his stories about life on a diesel boat sure ring familiar.
oh, the blog is Musings of an Old Man. hiya Ted
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Appreciate the hype about my blog. The stories just go on and on don't they? There is actually no limit with each one being better than the first one and every one starting with "This ain't no shit". The four most important words in story telling to a submariner. Thanks again.
Fortunately I had a heads up about the hotbunking thing. Fortunately still I was a cook! Hahaha! No hotbunking allowed. I never laughed back then though. Didn't wanna get taped up.
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