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Old 01-31-14, 08:00 PM   #1
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Default 6 Things Movies Don't Show You About Life on a Submarine

Pretty interesting/funny article from Someone Who Was There (TM):
http://www.cracked.com/article_20871...submarine.html
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Old 01-31-14, 08:24 PM   #2
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Thanks for sharing!
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Old 01-31-14, 08:40 PM   #3
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Still cannot compare to taking a dump in front of the engine room crew on a communal can between the engines ("jumbos") of a Nazi Uboot...just so the head, off the galley, could be used for food storage! On a sub, crewmen are necessarily...pieces of equipment. O to be on watch on the con deck! at least ya could breath...till a big wave spooged the lookout station and swept the watchmen from the con, as on one sorty!...the alternative: a rifle and a one way ticket to Stalingrad...or 'Nam...or as Pete Seeger had it "Waist deep in the Big Muddy" The horror isn't that it's so bad, it's that it's is so much worse other ways.
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as Bob Seeger had it "Waist deep in the Big Muddy"

Not even a week, and they're already forgetting your name, Pete!
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GOT ME! ...fixed-especially as I posted three of his anthems in "what's hot for Pete's sake" to boot '
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Old 01-31-14, 09:28 PM   #6
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And to think I was going to be a nuke right out of high school. Glad they turned me down. Maybe carrier duty.
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"Everything stinks and even the surface sucks"

How apt
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And to think I was going to be a nuke right out of high school. Glad they turned me down. Maybe carrier duty.
Well dodged that bullet didn't ya? Being a non-nuc on a submarine is a lot easier, only numbers 1-5 apply. Carrier? BIG TARGET FOR SUBMARINES.
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