Submarine Commissioning

[lettered]

Hi! I've been kinda MILJ lately--or is that MFLJ? Anyway, just been ducking my head in, squirreling away foxy tidbits, then quick like a bunny hopping away, and also trying to ferret out how many animals I can monkeywrench in a sentence without becoming a cheatah. 8? Anyway, thank you for replying to my questions and thank you for your vid recs

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[canadiangirl_86]

Very cool pictures! :)

[lettered]

Thanks!

[dlgood]

And the total crew size is 134, but there are only 118 bunks, which just makes me think things, you know? Except that there is apparently extra room for sleeping in the torpedo room, which could make some people just as uncomfortable.

The Torpedo Room is one of the more spacious places on the sub. The deal with the bunks is that they do 'Hot Racking'.

Which is -- Submarines have to be manned 24 hours a day, so some people are always on duty, right. The way it works is, you'll get three guys assigned to two beds - and it works because there's never a time when all three guys are off duty. They just call it hot racking because when you get to go to bed, your bunk is warm because someone else was using it while you were working.

And also, for every chicken and egg, there's like a case of tabasco sauce on board.

And I'm sad that you didn't get a chance to walk aboard the ship because of the pouring rain, and the crowds...

[lettered]

Ah! It all makes sense. Except that having to sleep in someone else's bed sucks. But obviously a sub isn't exactly the Ritz. Thanks for the clarification.

Now I want to know how many pounds of tabasco there is.

You couldn't really walk aboard the ship. Just the barge beside the ship. Which would've been cool for a better view, but not much else, you know? It was just cool being there, anyway.

[a2zmom]

This is quite awesome. Certainly not something you get to do every day.

[lettered]

I know! It was really interesting.