Not absolutely convinced this guy was an officer, but I suppose he could have been. His thoughts about life aboard and ashore, to me, seem more the enlisted bent than an officer.
None of the officers I served with used the vernacular he uses, though it is entirely possible this generation's officers may think/write the way he does. I separated in '91.
The accommodations he describes are those of the enlisted man. No officer had only the bed pan for storage. Each also had a locker and desk in a two-man stateroom. This was LA class.
That being said, unless he is a well studied imposter, he was obviously a nuke and dead on about Down Periscope and AIP.
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In the month of July of the year 1348, between the feasts of St. Benedict and of St. Swithin,
a strange thing came upon England...
My U297 build thread
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