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Originally Posted by Julhelm
In combat conditions where the life of every man on the boat is on the line, reloading would most likely be much faster.
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This is romantic gobbly gook. Sorry to be blunt about it.
You train like you will fight, and you fight like you train.
Submarines are a procedure oriented vessels, more so than any surface craft.
You have a procedure for almost everything, and you better have the book out when you are doing something. If something goes wrong and you did not have the procedure out and/or you were not following said procedure eg: One step is to check to make sure the A-cable (to the weapon) has an O-ring attached and is greased properly and is fully seated into the breach door. You bypass this step because '****, its always correct' but the O-ring has rolled or has a cut in it, and the cable floods out when you flood down and power the weapon up, so now you have to back haul the weapon and replace the A-cable or this little fupa' damages the weapon..... and the Approach Officer needs that weapon.....
When the stress level rises, you always fall back to how you were trained. That is why we, as supervisors (either senior enlisted or officers), always stress using the procedure, even if you have performed it a thousand times. In high stress levels, you may forget or overlook something because you were in a hurry, and in the very complex world of the submarine this may kill you.
Getting rid of this 'civilian complacency', learning to check and recheck is the hardest thing to teach and drill into the heads of new crew members so it becomes second nature.
Yes, in a war time environment, you 'might' shave off a couple of minutes but you better be really SURE. This will come down to each individual loading team on each submarine.