So we can walk around the boat, but did real Kaleuns do that?

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Originally Posted by Platapus

I guess it is good to be the captain.

Since we have some actual navy people here..

Clearly the Captain could walk to every compartment in a sub. It is his boat.

But from an organizational discipline point of view, does the navy discourage commanding officers from interfacing directly with the crew instead of going thorough the Division Chiefs and the CPOs?

As a landlubber but a retired military troop, I could imagine the Captain of a sub doing a walk through only a few times per deployment for morale/inspections, but not to make a habit of it.

For one thing, I would imagine that works tends to stop when the Captain enters a compartment, and second, a lot of that work is hazardous/dirty and should not be interrupted.

In order to keep the chain of command strong, I would think the Captain would garner most of his information through the chain vice personally going into a compartment.

So my rambling incoherent point is that a Captain CAN go everywhere, but would probably choose NOT to.

Or is MBWA common in the Submarine Force?

I go back to my original point, the captain could man the deck gun or use the TDC, but did he really?