The sub guys are zombies. The rest of the Navy is “normal”.
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Like ‘they’ say, unless you have walked a mile in my/our shoes, please do not blanket judge us.
I used to say I knew I was sane because I passed the Military Aptitude tests for certain ‘duties’, Submarine duty included.
However, as I got older, the realization set in that the test was really designed to see if one were CRAZY enough to willingly sink and live in an iron tube, jump from perfectly good aircraft, swim miles with full packs etc etc etc.
So, I now consider myself DOUBLE NUTZ as I not only volunteered for Submarines, I can/could also copy Morse Code at speeds of 50WPM plus....
I crossed trained on an attack sub for 4 weeks. Not once did I engage in a person conversation with any of the crew except the CO with whom I got along great.