Without bragging (that's a no, no) I was privilege to privileged information that the Russians in the 1970's could not match our quality of supplying spare parts for our FBM submarines ...
We had parts everywhere, hidden behind the tubes, under the deck, in the overhead, hidden in every compartment, wrapped in paper, sealed in little plastic bags, guarded by our own onboard supplyman, his only job was to inventroy, catalog and resupply our MM's with the 100's of o rings they went through every patrol. I saw the inventory on IBM style paper, complete list were available before we left, all had to be made up somewhere that had a computer, but I don't remember seeing a computer on board in those days.
Logistic's makes America number one ...
So that people like me and my Chief sonarman from the old school could say, such and such part was broken and replace it just to see if that was the one ... You know ala tube tester at the local drug store.
Oh we were bad, uh? But real sonar tech's wing it ... lol
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