Question Greetings and salutations to all

Right, well it says I should say hi to everyone, and my DI trained me well back in the day...

Hello to you all.

Now for the "tell us about you" bit. I am a redneck from the deep South. Navy vet (the only good Marine is a Submarine). College graduate (social science and sociology, and no, they are not the same thing, just...almost the same). Currently, I coach sports, work in the education system, fish and do lots of reading. This place has become something of a personal vice for me, as it is the primary source for my fiction reading these days (I still prefer an actual book and most of my material is non-fiction).

P.S. Yes, I do wear a kilt when I can. It is a kilt, not a skirt... The reason they call it a kilt is because that is what happened to the last person that called it a skirt.

P.P.S. The user name is from my time in the Navy. I got used to being called by that, so I still use it. The rest of the personal details are left scarce on purpose, nothing personal, just basic PERSEC, an old habit of mine, but not a bad one to have. I will however answer any questions asked that I can within reason on any topic.

Nuke and ELT actually. Trained on the 626 (Daniel Webster) and served on the 750 (Newport News, aka no-good-news, aka no-port-news. I'll refrain from yelling, senior chief wouldn't approve of that...so I save it for the sidelines when needed.

Just remember, folks: Steam Kills.

Great, now you have me looking up my comic's of Ninja High School and Professor Steamhead.

Hi! Welcome to the wacky world of wacky wackiness.

E M Pisek wrote: Great, now you have me looking up my comic's of Ninja High School and Professor Steamhead.

No love for the animated movie "Steamboy"?

I guess that makes me the odd man out. The steam kills line just reminded me of terrorizing the NUBs in berthing. Grab a steam suit, sprinkle the sleeper with chem-lite juice, wake them up while screaming "this one's still alive!" and shove an EAB at them and watch the panic. Good times until you forget to plug in the EAB and the guy passes out in a few seconds and you then get chewed out by the captain... The alternative memories, not so good, steam really is bad for you, we had one incident report where a Sailor was killed while working on a steam trap, improper isolation resulted in him being "cooked" in seconds. 450F steam is bad for your health.

Nah. IIRC, first heard the line in Gas Turbine EEOW School.

Gas turbine?! Heresy I say! "Hot rock, make steam, make boat go"...thus said the instructor at NNPTC.

null0trooper wrote:

E M Pisek wrote: Great, now you have me looking up my comic's of Ninja High School and Professor Steamhead.

No love for the animated movie "Steamboy"?

Unfortunately I had other earthly matters to attend to. And I had terrible internet -56k baud.

As for steam kills. Yes. Well aware, but I had to worry more about in not becoming 'contaminated' at one time. Nuff said.

Contamination is a very bad word...

MM2ss wrote: Contamination is a very bad word...

Contamination is a fun word!

When boiler water chemistry is not the topic.
Or anything connected to something labelled "evap" or "DFT"

Yeah, but how often do we hear it being used when it is not about something like radiological controls, engineering casualties or just completely borking the water making process and forcing us to dump the entire storage of DI or potable water?

though as a coach, I will admit I have seen some people "contaminate" my field and/or squad from time to time...it isn't fun then either. The sprint they run while I time them however...those are fun.

Skimmer...

Claustrophobia really is not a problem on submarines. We make our own air and keep the oxygen levels down real low, everyone is too tired to give a damn and no one has the energy for a proper freak out. Except on field day, when the O2 levels get cranked up and everyone looks like they are on speed.

I figured it was just an extension of the usual comradely smack talking. The primary entertainment on the boat was to try and irritate someone enough to get a reaction (the theory of limited happiness). Talking smack about skimmers and bubbleheads is just more of the same to me. Besides, my grandfather was a Naval aviator in WWII, he flew PBM's (Martin Mariners) and his brother was on either destroyers or cruisers (I can't remember off hand, those documents went with that branch of the family, so I don't have ready access to them at all times).

Kristin Darken wrote: I never really bought into the whole war between surface and subs... after all, I was on a carrier. We had pilots and marines. Why fight with other sailors when there were pilots and marines to launch off the ship?

Its simple.
To a submariner, there are two sorts of ships.
Submarines and targets.

Astrodragon wrote:

Kristin Darken wrote: I never really bought into the whole war between surface and subs... after all, I was on a carrier. We had pilots and marines. Why fight with other sailors when there were pilots and marines to launch off the ship?

Its simple.
To a submariner, there are two sorts of ships.
Submarines and targets.

No... The two types of ships are "our targets" and "everyone else's targets, but, sad to say, they're on our side".
Because subs are boats, which can be broken down into "us" and "them (more targets)".

When I qualified on the plot I had a weps that insisted that there were two things on the plot and to things only... Targets we can kill and targets we are not allowed to kill. He was...unique.