[Jamestown1630]

I’ve never understood how a person could serve extended time on a submarine even in the best of times.

I think it takes a very specific kind of person.

[blam]

Here's the WW2 sub I served on in the early 60's.

USS Jallao (SS-368)

[Captain Walker]

There is an interesting anecdote about a corpsman aboard a sub during the war who performed an appendectomy; I think anyone here would enjoy this:

history.navy.mil

[Fightin Whitey]

I think it takes a very specific kind of person.

It took a man of the first order, that's for damned sure.