Crimson Tide was my boat , '85 - '89 , Trident ,USS Alabama SSBN 731 B , MM2 A-Div , allot of submarine hocum going on in that movie made it hard to watch ,did not portray submarine life well at all , a more accurate representation of what it was actually like serving on a Sub was Hunt for Red October
all that ultra military berating simply has no place in sub service and is not practiced , if you get some douche on board be it officer , or SR chief or below tht wants to play that game they get put in their place fast , the Captain ,XO and COB really are the only ones that can get away with it and even they do not exercise it like they did in Crimson Tide
on a sub you have a never ending barrage of qualifications you must complete , you get issued "cards" and on each card you are required to get "sigs" and then a final "checkout", every sig is a in depth and comprehensive checkout on a particular aspect that involves that particular qualification , it can involve 5 sigs or 60 sigs , a checkout can include something for instance a in depth hand drawn from memory ventilation line up for any casualty scenario for any of the 3 compartments , which valves are open , which are closed , which fans circulate which fans dont , its no one or 2 valves or fans ,it involves 30 or more that can change given the particular casualty
the way you quell that stripe tapping rank pulling crap on a sub is through qual cards , you get a douche like that you dink him by making it impossible to get his sigs , dont get the required sigs for that week you go dink or delinquent , if you go delinquent on any card you get no lounge time ,your entire life now becomes standing watch and when you are not you are working on quals , sleep is now a luxury you can not afford , if you are a real tool bag you will find yourself "delinquent for life" , basically we put you so far behind on sigs on multiple cards you will never get off the delinquent list , suddenly attitudes change , we brought a SR Chief that cross rated from the surface fleet to his knees , he brought that surface fleet nonsense with him thinking he was going to employ it on a sub , think again
it was nothing for our boat to do 160+ days submerged without surfacing because if another boat , one in particular would break down and limp home we had to cover their package ,average was suppose t be around 120 days , the reason that military non sense doesnt fly on subs is there is allot of stress involved in not seeing sunlight for 160 days , the last thing you want is someone piling on with un necessary baggage , all that crap you see going on in Crimson Tide was as far from reality as if they were driving that boat to the moon , everyone is way more laid back which is why they start screening in boot
all together if you tally all my patrols that i was on , i have a little more than 2 years of my life hat expired while submerged under the ocean in total
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