Some more dumb shit that we do out of sheer boredom underway: Romy snorts a concoction of garlic powder and crushed red peppers…it doesn’t bode well for him; Darko tried to hang by his feet from the Aft Escape Trunk handle, his foot slips off and he lands violently on his shoulder, he complains about …
Category Archives: Underways
Mission #1 — WESTPAC, 2004
The first story that comes to mind from mission was the time the LAN chief kicked me off the LAN for having pictures of naked chicks on my personal account. I don’t know where they came from, but they were there. I think I found them somewhere and saved them to my drive so I …
WESTPAC 2004
LOADOUT PERIOD The day after we pulled back in off of POM cert, we started to get ready for deployment, called Loadout. October 22 was the first day of Loadout and we welcomed some very special guests. Some San Francisco 49er cheerleaders and the rock band Journey came down to take a tour of the …
ORSE Workup & ORSE, July 2004
After being underway for a month or so, we submariners start to laugh at the dumbest shit. We also start to behave like complete jack-asses. There was one particular RC-Div buddy of mine, Mongo, who was in my watch section and could always be counted on to provide ample hilarity in times of monotony. Also, …
Lost All Hydraulics, Boat Is Crippled Like Timmy
June 25, 2004: Submarine is crippled… like Timmy After of the aforementioned in-port tomfoolery [which was awesome] it was time for Engineering Department to get down to business. We had just completed an extended maintenance period, and it was now time to get back out to sea and punch holes in the ocean once again. It …
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EastPac 2004
Eastern Pacific runs, or EastPac’s are nowhere near the ass-ramming that is a WestPac. WestPac stands for Western Pacific Deployment — I will expound upon these shenanigans later in this blog. On this particular underway, the plan was to conduct sound trials in the freeze-your-nuggets-off waters of Alaska. Basically, colder waters are better conductors of sound. …
Negative Reactivity 