Amenities for sub sailors
 

I was reading about the new UK Type 45 destroyer on the front page.... got to hand it to those brits they know how to live. I-Pod chargers in each sailors bunk with 5 station recreational audio. Nice.

Think that sub berths could ever come with such nice amenities? It would be nice if a sailor could retire to the bunk and jack in some handphones in the bunk wall to catch some zzz... or do the new Virginias already have it covered. I hear the UK Astutes have elminated hot-bunking too.

I don't know about the other bubbleheads, but if I was in the rack trying to grab sleep and the guy below me, or across the passageway from me, was jamming to the tunes I would be more than a little upset. Sleep is a BIG thing underway, particularly for us nukes.

Granted, I was on a fast boat and we did not have those nice staterooms like the boomer babies, er, sailors had. We had real crews quarters, racked and stacked and shoved into a corner.

If they were on headphones it wouldn't be that bad. I was on a plane trip the other day where the plane had XM radio piped into headset jacks in the seats and it was a really nice touch. Made the trip a little more enjoyable. Same thing could be applied to boats... with some sorta preprogrammed, predownloaded music options available... or a IPOD per sailor with a huge downloadable database on board for the sailors to DL songs from. As the brits... they probably know what works.:lol:

In Israeli subs the cook always has to be a trained kosher cook which means he has some rabbinical training. Therefore the cook sometimes doubles as chaplain.

When I first reported to the Alaska, my 'mattress' was between two storage lockers. Our 'staterooms' were I feel worse than a fast attack. If 1 of the 9 guys in the 'room' had a sleeping disorder, you found out about it. All that matters is whether fast attack or Trident, the sailor was still lucky to get 3-4 hours of good sleep due to the drills that were always going on during your off-watch time. Trying to qual the boat and qual your watch barely gave me 2-3 hours of uninterupted sleep.

EDIT: I about died when I read that a Trident sailor was emailing his family while on patrol...EMAIL??????....WTH!!!! My contact with my ex-wife was a 40 word telegram, or better known as familygram that the radio officer, XO, etc...got to see it before I did to make sure I wouldn't go nuts from what it said.

I remember all the codes, shorthand, and such that were invented to squeeze more info into those familygrams. We had one guy that had a no kidding CODE BOOK. He would get a familygram and had to turn over his codebook so that the powers that be could read it first.

E-mail... geesh..

Ipods are a good idea for crew bunks.
But im not aware of this, but do any ships allow gaming systems for guys to use in like rec rooms or anything?

Guys bring them on their own at the very least. Most goat lockers are pretty well set up, and on some crews the blueshirts are too.

You can bring your laptop, too. We had a few networks going in crew's mess from time to time.

Oh cool