I was on the Abraham Lincoln, a boomer. We had a Boot Ensign who thought he was God's gift to the world. Those in the service know what I am talking about. Well now to the story.
We were out on patrol and I was standing the throttleman watch, when all of a sudden we heard on the "4MC", "Flooding in the Auxiliary Machinery Space!", from our EWS (Engineering Watch Supervisor).
Well, there are 4 main steps that are suppose to happen when that message is passed. They are: 1. Full rise on planes, 2. Emergency blow the ballast tanks, 3. Shift reactor plant for full power operation, and 4. Answer All Ahead Flank on the throttles. Well parts 1, 3, and 4 were answered right away, but the OOD did not give the order to do an Emergency Blow.
The CO came storming out of his stateroom, yelling why we weren't blowing our ballast tanks. Needless to say the CO dressed down the OOD in front to the Control Room watch and made him requalify the watch station.
We didn't see much of him for the next week or so. Oh, the flooding turned out to be a flange leaking on one of the seawater lines used for cooling on an A/C Plant.
The EWS just panic when he saw the leak, but the watch stander in the space knew all about it.
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Jim
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