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USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599)
Posted on 04/11/2010 4:54:21 AM PDT by myknowledge
NORFOLK, Va., April 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy announced smoking will be banned below decks on all submarines effective Dec. 31.
"This policy was initiated for the health of the sailors who choose not to smoke," said Lt. Commander Mark Jones, spokesman for the Commander Naval Submarine Forces in Norfolk, Va. "It is unfair for them to be exposed to the unhealthy side effects of secondhand smoke."
Jones said a 2009 study by the Navy found non-smokers were exposed to secondhand smoke on all four classes of submarines, CNN reported. The Navy has 71 subs with 13,000 sailors on active duty, and nearly 40 percent are smokers, recent polls indicate.
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I took my first overseas flight from Travis AFB to Clark AB in the Philippines nearly 50 years ago. We flew on a MATS C-121 manned by a Navy crew. Don’t remember how many PAX were aboard, but all seats were filled. Almost every PAX was smoking, and the Navy stewards spent most of their time in aisles emptying those arm-rest ashtrays. If you DIDN’T smoke, tough toenails.
You forgot the ever present smell of amine.
Been there done that, but for 2 weeks and we lost a CO2 scrubber to boot.
When the O2 candles were gone and the smoking lamp was lit again, they wouldn't stay lit anyway. I had a 24 hour a day headache.
BTW, the increase in CO2 did not result in warming!
I had no idea that smoking was permitted there in the first place.
Interesting. What is the greatest number of days you’ve been submerged at one time?
Actually, the cans of fermenting tobacco spit were the only smell on the boat that was sickening. The rest we just got used to.
My longest time submerged was 74 days on a Lafayette-class boomer, but we snorkeled to run the diesel a few times during the patrol, so the air got replaced then. The rest of the time, it was all scrubbers, burners, and O2 generator for life support. Like someone else posted, we could only take 15 cartons of smokes on a patrol, so the non-smokers would help out by taking 15 cartons and then we would sell them to the smokers towards the end of the patrol.
I don’t know how you did it.
I sleep with the window open even in winter....if the wife goes to sleep first.
I am amazed at the number of bubbleheads here on FR.
118 days for me on a Sturgeon class
What boomers did you serve aboard and were there any fire dangers when smoking?
I served on the USS Patrick Henry (SSBN599)G and there was a steel “butt kit” mounted to the bulkhead or other verticle surface about every 15-20 feet.
My longest time submerged was 83 days, when we finished our last patrol in the Med before heading to the yards for refueling. So we exiting the Med and headed West across the Atlantic and didn’t surface again until we hit New London. After two weeks in New London, a skeleton crew (including me) took the boat down the coast, through the Panama Canal, and up the west coast to the Bremerton ship yard, a cruise that totaled over 100 days when all was said and done, most of it submerged.
USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599)
Like they say, you don't have to be crazy to be a bubblehead but it helps. Being a conservative comes naturally to us crazies, right? heh
There she is. Cool, thanks!
Pretty much
More freakin bubbleheads!
Best wishes
For like FIVE TIMES what you paid for them! You ratfinks.
I used to stock up on cokes and candy bars and sell them to the new guys during the patrol for big bucks. The entrepreneurial spirit was alive and well.
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