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Originally Posted by Rip
Subs never announce that a situation is a drill.
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We had one captain who would run his own drills in the middle of the backwatch, sundays, whenever he thought that we needed to get sharp. He would get someone and they would grab one or two others and that was the total of the brief. Sometimes he would brief you 3 or 4 hours ahead of time. Something like go to RCC-1 and SCRAM the reactor or go and trip out a SSTG. The memorable one was when he had the AMR call away a sudden depressuization of the O2 generator (AKA the 'bomb'). Those who know that piece of gear KNOW that can be a BAD thing. He was asleep in his rack when that one happened. People were about to crap themselves when they announced (the COTW was in on it and purposely mis-reported to the OOD the values) the hydrogen partial presure in the boat. It was these total suprise drills that told you the difference betweeen what you know and what you THINK you know.
He was a tricky SOB but you know what? When they ran the TRE or ORSE drills, you could sleepwalk thru them. I still respect that man to this day and would go back in if he asked me to.