My first trip underway was on a ship that had broken fresh water evaporators. No showers for 3 weeks while doing war games 23/7.
Toilets turned on 1/2 hour in the morning and evening. Shit piled literally above the seat. Sailors pissing and shitting in plastic bags and hanging it on the end of their rack because they were too lazy to climb a ladder to throw it over the side.
After 3 weeks of living like animals we were heading back to Long Beach and the Captain got on the 1MC (ship wide announcement) and stated "there will be no liberty until morale improves".
I remember standing in OPS staring at the speaker with 6 other sailors thinking that Captain Bligh was out of his fucking mind.
My uniform was so crusty that it would stand by itself if I took it off. When I finally got in the shower water beaded up and ran off me.
I like the time when we were at sea for two months. We didn’t do shit for two months but assist other boats for their workups as an enemy submarine or do other submarine shit that submarines do in the local op area. Two month that us nukes back in the engine room didn’t do shit but the normal day to day. Fucking nothing going on. Groundhog fucking day. Then comes the day we pull back in to Pearl Harbor. We had just started shutting the fucking reactor down when the EDMC said no liberty until the engineering department exam is done. “ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING!!!” Two months out at sea and you fucking wait until the fucking minute we shut the reactor down to pull that shit?!?! There is a reason we called that EDMC satan.
Don’t know about OPs experiences but there weren’t many niggers on subs. It was pretty nice. We had a term back in the engineering department. It was OBNOB. That stood for Only Black Nuke On the Boat. The majority of the time there is only one black guy in one of the three divisions that deal with the reactor plant. Niggers were mostly too stupid to qualify to do reactor shit.
Whether or not this particular story is true, I’ve been in the navy and saw and heard enough shit that this isn’t very far fetched for me to believe.
Shit, just a few months ago some of the aircraft carriers has jet fuel in the potable water tanks. That should be fucking impossible to have happen but it did. That’s ridiculous.
Worst I’ve seen was showered secured for a week because the brine pump was fucked. Submariners had a way of handling our shit so quality of life could be as high as reasonably achievable given the circumstances.
[ - ] Eligrey 1 point 2.4 yearsDec 3, 2022 22:18:46 ago (+1/-0)
... just a few months ago some of the aircraft carriers has jet fuel in the potable water tanks
This is nothing new. I was on both the Saratoga and Independence way back and we took JP5 laced showers plenty of time. The tanks are apparently used for both potable water and JP5, just depends.
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The stench must've been uh , idk words fail me
I used to ride a skoo bus with niggers and the stench was horrible
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Shit, just a few months ago some of the aircraft carriers has jet fuel in the potable water tanks. That should be fucking impossible to have happen but it did. That’s ridiculous.
Worst I’ve seen was showered secured for a week because the brine pump was fucked. Submariners had a way of handling our shit so quality of life could be as high as reasonably achievable given the circumstances.
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This is nothing new. I was on both the Saratoga and Independence way back and we took JP5 laced showers plenty of time. The tanks are apparently used for both potable water and JP5, just depends.
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how you like that one?
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