6 Things Movies Don't Show You About Life on a Submarine

[Subnuts]

Pretty interesting/funny article from Someone Who Was There (TM):
http://www.cracked.com/article_20871_6-things-movies-dont-show-you-about-life-submarine.html

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Thanks for sharing! :hmmm:

[Aktungbby]

Still cannot compare to taking a dump in front of the engine room crew on a communal can between the engines ("jumbos") of a Nazi Uboot...just so the head, off the galley, could be used for food storage! On a sub, crewmen are necessarily...pieces of equipment. :o O to be on watch on the con deck! at least ya could breath...till a big wave spooged the lookout station and swept the watchmen from the con, as on one sorty!...the alternative: a rifle and a one way ticket to Stalingrad...or 'Nam...or as Pete Seeger had it "Waist deep in the Big Muddy" The horror isn't that it's so bad, it's that it's is so much worse other ways. :/\\!!

[razark]

as Bob Seeger had it "Waist deep in the Big Muddy"
:nope:
Not even a week, and they're already forgetting your name, Pete!

[Aktungbby]

GOT ME! ...fixed-especially as I posted three of his anthems in "what's hot for Pete's sake" to boot ':nope:

[Wolferz]

And to think I was going to be a nuke right out of high school. Glad they turned me down.:huh: Maybe carrier duty.:up:

[Jimbuna]

"Everything stinks and even the surface sucks"

How apt :)

[ETR3(SS)]

And to think I was going to be a nuke right out of high school. Glad they turned me down.:huh: Maybe carrier duty.:up: Well dodged that bullet didn't ya? Being a non-nuc on a submarine is a lot easier, only numbers 1-5 apply. Carrier? BIG TARGET FOR SUBMARINES.

[Wolferz]

Well dodged that bullet didn't ya? Being a non-nuc on a submarine is a lot easier, only numbers 1-5 apply. Carrier? BIG TARGET FOR SUBMARINES.

Just have to depend on their AWACS and ASW aircraft.
Sonar bouys and all that.:smug:
GET to da CHOPPA!

[Schroeder]

Just have to depend on their AWACS and ASW aircraft.
Sonar bouys and all that.:smug:
GET to da CHOPPA!
Are AWACS systems even capable of detecting ground targets? I thought they were just for airborne objects.:hmm2:

[Wolferz]

Are AWACS systems even capable of detecting ground targets? I thought they were just for airborne objects.:hmm2:

AWACS= Air Warning And Command System. I'm sure they have the gear for monitoring sonar bouys to find a sub. But, don't quote me on it.:yep:

[Schroeder]

AWACS= Air Warning And Command System. I'm sure they have the gear for monitoring sonar bouys to find a sub. But, don't quote me on it.:yep:
Last time I checked it was Airborne Warning and Control System...:know:
But I couldn't find anything on that they also take part in observing ground or sea targets.

[Jimbuna]

I wasn't 100% sure but according to this site the answer is yes:

http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/air-force-aviation/can-awacs-detect-track-ground-targets-3879/

[Catfish]

There has to be some automatic drill, especially in submarines, and especially especially for nuclear ones..

However how they do it in that school, i wonder whether the outcome is so 'professional' lol :-?

[Wolferz]

Last time I checked it was Airborne Warning and Control System...:know:
But I couldn't find anything on that they also take part in observing ground or sea targets.

I know. I thought about correcting the mistake but, I'm feeling a bit lazy today.:arrgh!:

[ReallyDedPoet]

Nice one.

[ETR3(SS)]

Just have to depend on their AWACS and ASW aircraft.
Sonar bouys and all that.:smug:
GET to da CHOPPA!The only at sea ASW assets that a carrier has are it's choppers and the rest of the battle group. The E-2 Hawkeye is AEW only. They used to carry the S-3 Viking, but that's been retired from fleet use.

As far as land based aircraft for ASW, P-3 or P-8 only.

[Schroeder]

I wasn't 100% sure but according to this site the answer is yes:

http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/air-force-aviation/can-awacs-detect-track-ground-targets-3879/
Thanks.:salute: