OT: WOYM Thread

[Bolt-O]

I was on subs, its really not that cramped, and you just get used to it over time. If you are tall, you learn when to duck. You don't get a lot of personal space, just your rack storage and shared lockers, on the older boats you would need to walk on top of canned food for deployments, but that was in the 70's, and those boats are long decommisioned. If anything for most of the crew its like being in a 'spaceship', you don't have a sense of day or night if you are on patrol and submerged unless you look at a clock, or what is being served by the cooks, lol.

[Topcat]

Thank you of course, I KNOW I wouldn't hack it in a sub.

Based on his descriptions, just very cramped.
so his room has one rotating desk chair in the middle of his room and everything is accessible by rotating that chair.
EVERYTHING.
I'd go into more detail but frankly some of it is a bit more personal than I'd like to share.
He would just tell us kids that everything had to be super efficient in the submarine, especially as a cook.
he started his career as a cook in a submarine and actually cooked for Nixon at the white house for a bit.

Yep...sub life would be tough...makes me think of that scene from Das Boot:

[sonorajim]

Great story. I love these kinds of stories.

I've told the story of my father here before. I knew very little about my father when he died in 1973 when I was 15. He struggled with alcoholism and PTSD and was a hard man.


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Here is also a video about the Dieppe Raid, narrated by Alex Trebek, who was Canadian.

Thanks for this story. I've become something of a history fan in my later years which had surprised me.
You might enjoy "And No Birds Sang" by Farley Mowat. A Canadian officer and later author who served in Sicily in WWII.
Currently reading "Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant" and find it connects a lot of dots.

[Bolt-O]

Yep...sub life would be tough...makes me think of that scene from Das Boot:

Much rather be there than on a skimmer in a shooting war. But death wouldn't be slow in a boat that is deep... if they could find ya.

Seriously, the US Submarine Force has the smartest, best trained sailors in the world, and the best equipment..and food. It was hard in WWII, we really appreciate those guys, real heroes.

[Velo]

Much rather be there than on a skimmer in a shooting war. But death wouldn't be slow in a boat that is deep... if they could find ya.

Seriously, the US Submarine Force has the smartest, best trained sailors in the world, and the best equipment..and food. It was hard in WWII, we really appreciate those guys, real heroes.

My Uncle Bert was an officer in the submarine corps during WWII. I never had a chance to to talk to him about it. He owned service stations on the Peninsula south of San Francisco after the war. He died about 1980. He loved cigars and got throat cancer. I will have to ask my cousin what he knows about this father's war.

[Velo]

[Boltjolt]

I don't see a Father's day thread so just wanted to post a pic of what my Wife brought me this morning.
After our talks about Roberto's, I thought id show off a bit lol

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[21&500]

Delicious...

Happy Father's Day to all the real dad's out there
Thankless job but by far the most meaningful one.

[sonorajim]

My Uncle Bert was an officer in the submarine corps during WWII. I never had a chance to to talk to him about it. He owned service stations on the Peninsula south of San Francisco after the war. He died about 1980. He loved cigars and got throat cancer. I will have to ask my cousin what he knows about this father's war.

US Grant met a similar end. He enjoyed cigars and became very popular during & after the War Between the States. Fans sent him hundreds of boxes. He wrote his Memoirs while dying of cancer.

[sonorajim]

Happy Father's Day!

[Fleet 1]

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[Velo]

US Grant met a similar end. He enjoyed cigars and became very popular during & after the War Between the States. Fans sent him hundreds of boxes. He wrote his Memoirs while dying of cancer.

Yep, he worked as hard as he could to finish his memoirs before he died. I read it a number of years ago. After defeating Lee and the Confederacy on the battlefield, he was a two-term president. He was considered by many to be the most admired man of 19th century America. His memoir teaches us a lot about the 19th century and the Civil War. His presidency had some problems, but it didn't stick to him, he was considered too trusting and people took advantage.