There are many ways to get into trouble on a Submarine some of them are worth it and this is one of them. I have to use a fictitious name for what was to be bestowed upon this poor fellow, but the story goes as follows...
I remember working on our ever troublesome high pressure air compressor. (HPAC, we had three of them on the Archerfish. Two up front and one aft of frame 57 in "Nooky land". The below decks watch ran into auxilary machinery one all excited to fetch me because I had to see what was going on up topside. The topside watch was checking in a Newby. The newby was not in uniform and was dressed in bright green checkered bellbottoms and had a spiked hairdo. He must have weighed 120 pounds soaking wet. His name was close to "Weasley" I looked at the below decks watch and said "Were gonna have fun with this one!"
I think we were once again headed on one of our "Northern runs". Which usually meant it was time once again to play with our Soviet counterparts. Seaman Weasley had to sleep in the Torpedo room on a spare rack. This is not the best way to get shut eye because the lights stay on all the time and usually this was the other place where off duty crew would shoot the breeze. Well one night the TM of the watch was cracking up and drew our attention to Seaman Weasley who was dreaming of something that was causing him to "Stand and salute". (The best term i could fing to keep the thread clean guys-sorry). I had a brilliant Idea and that was to go to AMR-1 and get something called "Prussian Blue". This was a gel formed dye we used to check sealing surfaces on various types of equipment. The fun part of this dye is that if you get it on you, it will not wash off. It will wear of over time. Great stuff! With the team work of the TMOW I decided to give Seaman Weasley's flag pole a paint job with this dye. He was deep sleeper and when he awoke i do not think he knew anything was out of sorts until he went to the head to do his business. We waited for him to return to the Torpedo room just to see his reaction, but who showed up was the "Doc". The Doc was wearing a mile wide smile and told us that he did not know if he could keep this from the XO. But he wanted to know who did it, and I had to confess.
Weasley went right to the XO with his new "blue flag pole". The XO actually chewed him out for "ratting on his crew mates". Our XO did not like Weasley because of when he reported to the boat in civilain attire. Weasley eventually never worked out he was always on the "Dink" list and was off the boat before our next long run. Maybe it was the devil or just premonition about this fellow, but one thing is for sure, never trust a bubblehead who has access to Prussian Blue.
