Distinguished Business, Technology, and Defense Leader | VADM Stockdale Leadership Award Recipient | Ex-Submarine Captain | LinkedIn Top 1% | Recognized Top 10 Datacenter Influencer | Devoted Veteran Advocate
I get the question sometimes: where do you store your food on a submarine for an extended deployment? It's easy - you put it in the passageway and walk on it. Then you eat yourself out!! 😀 Infrastructure Masons Compass Datacenters Build Submarines United States Submarine Veterans Naval Submarine League US Navy Navy League of the United States #Veterans #veteransupport #veteranshelpingveterans
Retired 688 sailor here. I can honestly say that…. stuff still ain’t funny.
The old boats they put potatoes in the shower, you had to eat all the potatoes before you could get into the shower. SSBNs have a big dry stores room, big fridge and a big freezer. TP is stored, everywhere.
Always enjoyed Stores Load in Scotland... never knew when we were going to get rained on. I'm pretty sure there's still cases of Jasper's Peanut Butter at the bottom of Holy Loch!
And a few eggs in the shower. Didn’t need a shower, we didn’t make a lot of water !. On 594’s we had food stashed all over the boat !
Everywhere…. Just don’t forget the potatoes under the deck plate….. we had one patrol with a plague of fruit flies!🪰 🤦🏻
I remember seeing cases of eggs stacked in the torpedo room on my SSN, up in the VLS space, forward of the TTCP.
Tony, then you work out where all the “good stuff” is…..you can’t beat middle watch ‘babies heads’ steamed on the throttles or TG control valves. For reference they are a delicacy unique to the UK!
That was always really annoying! I hated having to walk around hunched over all the time. Could not wait to get back into the engineering spaces and have head room again.
General Contractor at Daves Crew LLC
2moWe had dry good storage compartment in the bilge underneath birthing. While loading stores one guy in bilge, one above opening, the next man was at end of passage about 30 ft away from opening. To increase proficiency they would just roll the tin cans down the man standing above opening. Worked great until they got to rolling so fast that one can got away and went full speed into opening and knocked out the man in bilge. We were concerned for a second but when he came to we all laughed at him. Brotherly love.