13 November, 2006

Submarines

Update:

A sea Story

I have recently stumbled on some Submarine blogs. I guess being 15 or more years away from subs I didn't even think of them writing them.

Of course submariners being who they are I should have expected it as well as the quality.

The culture shines through.

One thing I don't get though.

Are todays A-Gangers really this wussified?

:) You would think they are ET's or ST's or something. (or heaven forbid Nukes like I was)

Now guys if you read this please don't tape me outside of the condensers (a fate I managed to dodge but other Nuke ET's spoke their way into).

Update:

Thanks for the launch Bubblehead has basically doubled my normal traffic today.

Welcome

If you want a better idea of what this site is about go to the main page or

to this synopsis.

5 comments:

Bubblehead said...

Hey Jim, we'd love to hear some of your submarine stories. We can always use another Nuke in the sub-blogosphere!

Jim C said...

I'll Give it a try but I am a bit rusty on the sea stories.

Jim C said...

no sh--

really

Anonymous said...

As a long time former sonar supervisor I can confirm that ST's have worked hard to be called 'wussified.' More than once in a high contact area I had an operator complain to me that his 'finger hurt' from tracking so many contacts. The whiner was usually fed to the next a-ganger that wandered into the shack.

Jim C said...

Sorry about the No Sh-- comment just trying to get a sea story mood going.

Got it now

http://dcssec.blogspot.com/2006/11/channeling-ancient-submariner.html

A bit crass but fairly realistic Mid watch conversation.