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...for the nukes out there: How many of you ever made a "Christmas Tree" in Maneuvering by cutting out the alarms in a triangle shape, with a "trunk" at the bottom, on the temperature monitoring panel?
posted by Bubblehead at 10:12 PM
I'm Joel Kennedy -- a married, 50-something year old retired submarine officer and esophageal cancer survivor with three kids who has finally made the transition to civilian life. Politically, I'm a Radical Moderate. (If you don't like something on this blog, please E-mail me. Don't call me at home.)
6 Comments:
on one patrol we kept a fly that got sucked in through the induction mast alive in the scram switch for 1 whole week.
some eoow's got nervous during feeding time.
"excuse me, r.o., but why are you opening the scram switch?"
9/22/2005 12:36 PM
on seawolf, we had a new year's tradition that entailed opening the vital and semi-vital lighting breakers throughout the engineering plant, and at midnight, hit every alarm in maneuvering. this was accompanied with a coleman cooler jug full of orange juice and fermented potato skins (available from our good friends the schmirnoffs). one year, we were getting all set, the entire duty section in maneuvering, and our local NRRO rep showed up at something like 2 minutes to midnight. FREAKOUT in the engineering spaces. he pulls out a collapsible cup, taps the jug, and at the stroke of midnight looked at the SMAW and asked if he was going to do the deed. in for a penny in for a dollar. we were busted anyway, so off went the alarms, all the lights flashing, and a 2 MC announcement welcoming the new year blared throughout the spaces. a couple of minutes later after everything settled down again, and the lighting turned back on, he thanked us for the "orange juice", wished us a happy new year, and left. i found out later that he had sailed the seawolf out of nuke school, and had earned his dolphins onboard her. guess the tradition was at least 15 years old by the time i participated.
some traditions are good. this one was great.
9/22/2005 5:36 PM
bo, that is definitely one of the best stories!
9/22/2005 7:02 PM
Bubblehead, I'm with ten other nukes and we were wondering, which periscope do you want us to hold up our hands to? The water is getting cold.
9/22/2005 7:05 PM
Having internet access on a sub is surely one of the wonders of the modern world. Being nukes, you have to do your "show of hands" to the RC periscope...
9/22/2005 8:59 PM
That's a new one on me, we just had more fun swapping the alarm lenses around on the RPCP and seeing if the EDO or EOOW(yes we even did this one underway) would notice. We also would pull the label plates off of the switches/meters while shutdown on the midwatches and read or write amusing anectdotes on the backs.
9/26/2005 2:53 PM
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