[BykrBayb]

My son was a submariner. He says a month of gaffing logs is not occasional. ...it simply means that someone wanted him gone... does not apply here. That is not the way things are done in The Navy.

[SmithL]

Lucky for the sailors involved that Rickover’s not around anymore.

[70times7]

Would seem that way to me too. Not sure of the structure of the chain on a sub, but there would be a Junior NCO, a Senior NCO and/or a Cheif PO along w/ a division officer and possibly an XO in line to have their heads handed to them for radioing a log of this magnitude. I can't imagine this went on for a month.

We had something mundane - a watch my div stood had to take soundings (water level checks) of various compartments. One night in port I found about a 10' shift over prior log entries. Turned out we had been through a stretch of bad weather, it had rained for many days and this was was done out on the bow so they just carried over prior entries. The guys who had the prior watches were sweating bullets but it blew over. This is different. An anphib is not going to have serious problems because of a few feet of water in the chain locker in port. On a nuke sub the crew ends up with empty coin purses etc. if the rads get out to play. Not good.

[tryon1ja]

I agree. Some of the items were so much a waste of time we never did them.