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Originally Posted by Snowman999
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Same on our destroyer in 1970. "Rig for red" is always common at night (though I suppose on our surface ship it meant more).
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SSBN we rigged for red on every mid-watch in the entire Ops compartment, less the wardroom and crew's mess. Crew's mess had a jog from the passageway that acted as a bit of a light trap. Mostly done to encourage quiet for berthing in Ops lower-level. On-going OOD wore red-lens goggles at midrats in wardroom. Going to PD we rigged for black in Control and left rest of Ops compartment at red--there was an interior door between Control and Ops UL passage.
Remember one time my CO, who liked red roller-ball pens, wrote a note to the OOD and sent it in by the messenger-of-the-watch. OOD looked at the "blank" piece of paper, tossed it in the garbage. Later, voices were raised . . .
Sometime in the late-80s or early-90s SSBNs went to "rig-for-grey" filters over white lights for Control. Don't know if they were more effective, but I think you'd lose some atmosphere.
Sonar shack was always blue lights to help with reading the stacks. We called it "the disco". |
We had a CO with the same affection for red ink. The OODs were on to it though. They would send everything to radio and we would read it to them over the phone. Sort of sucked for them when he was telling them to pull their head out of their ass for something.
