real submariners playing SH3 while underway

[RM2(SS)]

Hey there friends!

I must say, that i really enjoy an intense game of sh3, especially underway on the 688 class sub that im stationed on.

But i do get ridiculed A LOT!

I try to explain to my "friends" that sh3 offers all of the fun stuff (i.e. sinking ships, shooting down planes, limping back to home port after battles...etc) without any of the bad (cleaning underway for 8+ hours, drills, crappy food, extreme boredom...etc)

Has anyone else had the same expieriences?

[joegrundman]

And hopefully you won't actually get DC'd either, especially not by the British!

[Drakken]

Also, argue that it makes you to practice moving target interception by planning on the map.

And they would washing the deck of a Frigate dressed like in Navy Village People outfit, if the Germans hadn't used the submarine so extensively in the World Wars. All submariners owe to the sacrifice of the Lone Wolves in the Atlantic, despite fighting for an horrendous cause.

[RM2(SS)]

well, im a radioman (hence the name "RM2") so the whole "moving target excuse" wont work! but thanks though

[S Rafty]

Seeing as we're on the subject of Submariners.


I just recently applied to be a Warfare Officer (Submariner) in Her Majestys Royal Navy.

I have a formal interview and a selection exam end of this month before I can even think of going to the Admiralty Interview Board...anyways I digress.

-0.25 is nothing in an eye. Yet thats how much I'm out by in my left. Yet I can be a Royal Marine or a RM Officer. I did a year in the Reserve Infantry and I can safely say you need ebtter eyesight as a slogger then an officer onbaord a submarine.

A very Big, Whisky, Tango, Foxtrot on that one.

[SmokinTep]

RM, which boat you on?

[Puster Bill]

Originally Posted by S Rafty

Seeing as we're on the subject of Submariners.


I just recently applied to be a Warfare Officer (Submariner) in Her Majestys Royal Navy.

I have a formal interview and a selection exam end of this month before I can even think of going to the Admiralty Interview Board...anyways I digress.

-0.25 is nothing in an eye. Yet thats how much I'm out by in my left. Yet I can be a Royal Marine or a RM Officer. I did a year in the Reserve Infantry and I can safely say you need ebtter eyesight as a slogger then an officer onbaord a submarine.

A very Big, Whisky, Tango, Foxtrot on that one.

Actually, it makes sense. The primary intelligence gathering tool of the infantryman is his eyes. The primary tool of the submariner is the ears of the sonar guy, along with the periscope, but not so much the last one these days.

[Heibges]

Originally Posted by RM2(SS)

Hey there friends!

I must say, that i really enjoy an intense game of sh3, especially underway on the 688 class sub that im stationed on.

But i do get ridiculed A LOT!

I try to explain to my "friends" that sh3 offers all of the fun stuff (i.e. sinking ships, shooting down planes, limping back to home port after battles...etc) without any of the bad (cleaning underway for 8+ hours, drills, crappy food, extreme boredom...etc)

Has anyone else had the same expieriences?

A lot of military types play SOCOM. Of course, not out in the field? The missions are basically right out of light infantry training manuals.

Move to checkpoint A, conduct recon.
Move to checkpoint B, conduct a hasty attack
Move to checkpoint C, conduct an ambush
Move to checkpoint D, link up with guerilla's
Move to checkpoint E, move shell shocked "non-combatant" to safety.

[Heibges]

Originally Posted by Puster Bill

Actually, it makes sense. The primary intelligence gathering tool of the infantryman is his eyes. The primary tool of the submariner is the ears of the sonar guy, along with the periscope, but not so much the last one these days.

It seems though that you can get into the infantry with one leg, being blind in one eye, deaf in one ear, and your one remaining leg is flat footed. Yet you need 20/20 vision and perfect health to be a cook in the Airforce or Navy.

[Curval]

Originally Posted by S Rafty

Seeing as we're on the subject of Submariners.


I just recently applied to be a Warfare Officer (Submariner) in Her Majestys Royal Navy.

I have a formal interview and a selection exam end of this month before I can even think of going to the Admiralty Interview Board...anyways I digress.

-0.25 is nothing in an eye. Yet thats how much I'm out by in my left. Yet I can be a Royal Marine or a RM Officer. I did a year in the Reserve Infantry and I can safely say you need ebtter eyesight as a slogger then an officer onbaord a submarine.

A very Big, Whisky, Tango, Foxtrot on that one.

Don't be too disappointed if it doesn't work out.

A very good friend of mine's cousin is an officer aboard one of your nuclear boats. He stayed at my friend's place in Canada for two weeks one summer. The man had the most disgusting appalling foot odour I have ever had the misfortune to breathe in. It was so bad that they had to replace the carpet in the room he stayed in AND the carpet in the hallway leading to the bathroom after he left.

I felt very sorry for anyone who had to serve on a sub with him.

[S Rafty]

Originally Posted by Puster Bill

Actually, it makes sense. The primary intelligence gathering tool of the infantryman is his eyes. The primary tool of the submariner is the ears of the sonar guy, along with the periscope, but not so much the last one these days.

How does it make sense? I said its stupid how in the Infnatry its accepted but in the RN its not for a warfare officer (Fleet and Submarine) If the primary intel gathering is eyes, surely id want 20-20, rather then staring at a screen lol. (Astute class SSNs dont even have periscopes)

Madness, no one can get it.

And the post above me, *cringes* Your burnt the carpet right?

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Was his name "Frensen" perchance?

[headcase]

Originally Posted by S Rafty

Seeing as we're on the subject of Submariners.


I just recently applied to be a Warfare Officer (Submariner) in Her Majestys Royal Navy.

I have a formal interview and a selection exam end of this month before I can even think of going to the Admiralty Interview Board...anyways I digress.

-0.25 is nothing in an eye. Yet thats how much I'm out by in my left. Yet I can be a Royal Marine or a RM Officer. I did a year in the Reserve Infantry and I can safely say you need ebtter eyesight as a slogger then an officer onbaord a submarine.

A very Big, Whisky, Tango, Foxtrot on that one.

And how many applicants per position are there for said officer slot. How many for line grunts? I myself don't know, but as a former knuckle dragger I'll bet it's not for the job where you get the privledge of napping in the mud and being hungry all the time.

[danurve]

Crappy food?!?

I was under the impression sub crews got the best pallets :hmm:

Even the DD I was on served decent chow.
Except for the roast beef - good lord it was boiled first then crisped in the oven, might as well serve rubber chickens.
Then there was the ever present sliders.
Fresh Milk underway was worth it's weight in gold, that boxed - powdered jazz was garbage.
I remember a few crates of veggies in Sasabo that were huge, looked like there were geneticaly altered, but almost tasteless.

Ok, so maybe the food wasn't That great ..
The thing that sticks out in my mind being from A-gang was the high-pressure air line running in the overhead-walk way by the chow line. Tards would always use it as an arm rest, it's a wonder it never snaped and blasted someone.

[RM2(SS)]

the food is okay, but it gets old. heres a pic of my boat: