Amenities for sub sailors

[sonar732]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead Nuke

Granted, I was on a fast boat and we did not have those nice staterooms like the boomer babies, er, sailors had. We had real crews quarters, racked and stacked and shoved into a corner.

When I first reported to the Alaska, my 'mattress' was between two storage lockers. Our 'staterooms' were I feel worse than a fast attack. If 1 of the 9 guys in the 'room' had a sleeping disorder, you found out about it. All that matters is whether fast attack or Trident, the sailor was still lucky to get 3-4 hours of good sleep due to the drills that were always going on during your off-watch time. Trying to qual the boat and qual your watch barely gave me 2-3 hours of uninterupted sleep.

EDIT: I about died when I read that a Trident sailor was emailing his family while on patrol...EMAIL??????....WTH!!!! My contact with my ex-wife was a 40 word telegram, or better known as familygram that the radio officer, XO, etc...got to see it before I did to make sure I wouldn't go nuts from what it said.

[Bubblehead Nuke]

Originally Posted by sonar732

EDIT: I about died when I read that a Trident sailor was emailing his family while on patrol...EMAIL??????....WTH!!!! My contact with my ex-wife was a 40 word telegram, or better known as familygram that the radio officer, XO, etc...got to see it before I did to make sure I wouldn't go nuts from what it said.

I remember all the codes, shorthand, and such that were invented to squeeze more info into those familygrams. We had one guy that had a no kidding CODE BOOK. He would get a familygram and had to turn over his codebook so that the powers that be could read it first.

E-mail... geesh..

[Captain Norman]

Ipods are a good idea for crew bunks.
But im not aware of this, but do any ships allow gaming systems for guys to use in like rec rooms or anything?

[Henson]

Guys bring them on their own at the very least. Most goat lockers are pretty well set up, and on some crews the blueshirts are too.

You can bring your laptop, too. We had a few networks going in crew's mess from time to time.

[Captain Norman]

Oh cool