kudos. good read.

totally, nothing beats a good army/navy/airforce story. I loved hearing about my grandpa's antics in WW2. Keep 'em coming!

CrotchBeard: shoe and a 2x4 in the pressurizer

Like I mentioned earlier, on Phoenix we drover her out of new construction at EB straight down to PSA at Newport News. After PSA we were warming up the main engines and there was this horrid noise. Turns out some yardbird at EB had left a CRES nut in the reduction gears. We lost 30% of the bull gear.

It took 5 months for a guy they pulled out of retirement to hand hone the bull gear. The funny part was that he was so valuable they let him eat while he worked in the engineroom.

The Engineer never lived down the joke that he dropped his dolphins in the reduction gear. And he was married to Sublant's daughter to boot.

We had to have a torque meter mounted on the shaft, and that's why they decomoissioned 702 early.

justlen because my dolphins are plastic and come from a cereal box, what's a sublant? and how come having a torque meter mounted on the shaft got the 702 decomissioned early? or was how you determined that someone dropped a bolt in the bull gear?

Being bored, we were looking through ships plans one midwatch (I was AEA, the guy who had to sneak up to the messdecks to get sticky buns) and we discovered the 150lb air reducer was outboard the Captains bunk...

...And it was ORSE workup

...and we hated that Captain (Radioactive Ass will back me up on that one)

So in AMR2 we cross connected the HP air system and kept setting off the air reducer. The captain didn't get a good nights sleep until we stopped drilling all day.

So we have this guy, been standing throttleman for a while. He relieves with the rest of his section after breakfast, and around 0550 we get all stop rung up. Over the 7MC we get:

"Maneuvering, Conn - At six make six" - meaning at six knots, make shaft turns for six knots. Pretty normal order - get it quite often.

The officer acknowledges, and we're coasting down. After a few minutes, the reactor operator looks over at the em log.

"Hey, you're at four knots!"

"Yo dawg, it's at six make six!"

While pointing at the clock.

Cone never noticed.

Der Poopflinger: sublant

Commander, Submarine Forces, Atlantic Fleet.

The bull gear in the reduction gears carries all of the torque from the main engines to the screw. With 30% of the geat teeth gone there was a concern that the remaining teeth could be overstressed; hence the torque meter.

We could get to a flank bell, but had to go slowly. And the gears were always a noise problem after that.

We found the nut stuck to one of the pinion gears.

The joke about the dolphins is because when the gears are opened anyone in the area has to be stripped of anything that could possibly drop in. The Engineer was standing there and I cracked to him in front of the Commodore "hey Eng, here it is, you forgot to take your dolphins off."

torgojr: "Hey, you're at four knots!"

Remember "going home turns?"

ya I got the rest, funny stuff!, thanks for clearing up the whole torque meter and sublant thing! learnin' somthing new everyday.

I'd like to also add, you guys have balls, to get stuck in one of those cigar tubes, with a bunch of other stinky men, for god only knows how long, that takes a special breed right there, kudos to you guys!
/I play a lot of silent hunter 3
//does that count?
///ya I didn't think so

justlen: Remember "going home turns?"

Gotta love those analog reactor power meters.

/if you look at it right, its 100%
//haven't got a protective action
///yet

torgojr: analog reactor power meters

And every morning the skipper

"Goddamnit, how come we're out of our box again!"

torgojr: /if you look at it right, its 100%

With the S5W on the 688's we weren't limited by reactor power, but by turns. It was a blast to fling the throttles open and watch the RO panic to get the pumps to fast speed.

With the S5W on the 688's

Dontcha mean S6G?

Seeing as justlen's called me out twice now, I do concur on that CO being an unpleasant sumbiatch. The thing is he got relieved of command for "Independant Targeting" during modified 4SQ (or at least that's what the FTB's said was the reason for his early departure). To be honest I don't doubt it. You wouldn't either if you knew the guy.

torgojr: S6G

You're right, 20 year brain cramp.

wingnutz: My boat (Flasher) was in Guam a couple of times - 79 and 81 - I believe the Proteus was there during that time.

My sub story - when we went into the yard (Mare Island) we were all given hard hats, and told we could "decorate" as appropriate. So, being an electrician, I put Fuse Tender Nuclear , with LARGE FTN and smaller letters on the hat. I'm sure all you fellow sub sailers need no explaination of the FTN.

As I expected, the COB stopped me and commented about the hat. I assumed that I would be told to remove it - instead, he commented that the Fuse Tender Nuclear was on there because I was an Electrician. I could only smile and agree.

They have been planning this for years... Well before all this 9/11 crap.

/ex FT2/SS

Yargh...the answer is 'B'

/Yargh

*14 nuclear-powered SSBNs, each armed with 24 Trident II SLBMs;

Warhead: nuclear multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRV). Eight W76 (100 kt) warheads (Mark 4).


That is one vehicle ready to rain down pure hell....

And who didn't have a short timers chain. I knew one guy who had a real chain link one and would drag it around in a bag. Really pissed the XO off.

Two good yard stories, from precom on Bremerton at EB...

Anyone remember that POS barge the crews would stay on? We'd kill time by knocking the heads off fire extinguishers with a sledgehammer to shoot them across the Thames. We were aiming for the tender.

When in new construction the primary purpose of the crew is to sign off on ships systems. If something was wrong we'd write up "Ship's Force Deficiency Reports" (Swifties). I remember two that got us in trouble:

"Reactor Shield is 6 inches too far aft as against plan." They had to come down and measure.

"#2 Main Feed Pump has too much monkey shiat on the peckerhead."

Would be nice to have some Trident subs to help prevent this happening again.

explaination of the FTN

the one tattooed down the back of my leg stands for 'five time navy'

I'm on the michigan right now. I'm a nuke ET and i get out in september. just in time for them to deny my terminal leave so i can go on sea trials. i so dont want to be on that thing when it goes back out to sea. there's something very disturbing about seeing holes cut into the people tank so that you can just walk on board, instead of crawling down the ladder.

/"there's 24 missles and there's 24 beers in a case. coincidence? i think not..."

ArgentCorvid

The Michigan? Ugh, you gotta deal with Newman. Have fun going to sea with that guy.

/ask him about all his "other boats"
//saltiest ensign alive (according to him)

I'll grab my flashlight...


COMMENCE FIELD DAY...
//snivels... runs to kitchen and grabs a spray bottle of SimpleGreen and a clump of ChemWipes hopeing to recall fond memories of years in the Silent Service...
//damn I miss that pig..

Better late than never.


/ex QM/ET1(SS)
//SSN-766, DSRV-1, DSRV-2
///opening the lower hatch at 1985ft? cool.
////any other 9563-desig's running around fark?

Maneuvering; Conn: House the anchor.

Conn; Maneuvering: Uh, the anchor's fine. Hows the BCP?

/MT (retired)
//Set Condition 1SQ

Do I have to farking say it?



Not particularly useful against an insurgency.

This is 48 hours after the fact, but in case they preserve this thread for future generations, I have to put it in. I was reminded of it this weekend.

We were underway, it was night (midwatch), and I went down to visit my buddy Tom who was standing watch in the engine room. He had one shoe and sock off, and was looking at a prety nasty cut he had on his toe. It was looking infected, too.

Me: That looks pretty bad, dude. You oughta go see the doc after watch.

Tom: I've got some peroxide I'm getting ready to put on it.

Me: Oh, right on. Hey, isn't that the reactor plant peroxide?

Tom: Yeah, what's your point?

Me: Well, that's like 30% solution.

Tom: what's your point?

Me. Well the stuff they sell at the drug store is 2-3%.

Tom: SO, this is better!

Long story short, when he poured it on the cut, it made an audible sizzling sound, his eyes rolled back into his head and he passed out cold from the pain. When he came to, he puked. We laughed at him for weeks.

We were re-hashing this story "for the masses" a couple of months later.

Me: What I can't believe is that it hurt so bad that it made you puke.

Tom: Nah, I puked because I swallowed my snuff.

Me: O'rly?

Conn, Sonar
SA dimus detect bearing 117, initally classified Fark thread has faded, taking out of ATF passive broadband 1, dropping track...

/ex STS2(SS)
//SSN-705