[A Navy Vet]

"I served on an SSBN during the Cold War and the fact that we were on high alert all the time (with the added stress of hundreds of feet of cold ocean over our heads) kept us on our toes so we didn’t make mistakes. Of course, our generation had an attention span that was was not measured in single digit seconds."

Thank you and your fellow submariners for letting me sleep at night through the "Cold War" while I did my duty on various surface ships. However, I don't believe your successors are any less well trained. You know that the Navy will not let less than highly qualified personnel serve on a submarine.

While they not be in the "suck" as ground grunts call it, you have always been the "Silent Service" and deal with other hardships most people can't imagine. I still can't imagine living on a narrow tin can. I was happy to be our on the flight deck with room and fresh air. Although, around the clock flight ops got old.

[Bryanw92]

>>However, I don’t believe your successors are any less well trained. You know that the Navy will not let less than highly qualified personnel serve on a submarine.

Sadly, I know people who now do the job that I did 30 years ago. They aren’t as well trained as we were then. I’ve interviewed them for jobs and they are better than most Millennials but their training (or retention of knowledge) is pitiful compared to a Nuc of the Cold War. But they are in better shape and understand the politics of navigating the PC world much better than we were.