And just what are you supposed to do after hot-racking with Susan?
Posted on 02/14/2011 5:00:22 PM PST by rwa265
YOKOSUKA, Japan – As if life on a submarine wasn't already stressful enough, with its cramped quarters, long work hours and weeks at sea, thousands of smokers on the U.S. Navy's submarine fleet recently got an unwelcome ultimatum from Uncle Sam.
As of last month, all submarines in the U.S. Navy are officially smoke free — and it's been a tense transition.
For some officers and sailors, the new policy aiming to reduce secondhand smoke risk has been that extra push they needed to make the decision to quit. But for many more, it means a little more effort at irritation management and a lot more stocking up on nicotine patches, chewing tobacco and snuff before heading out to sea.
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but they are getting girls now... so... who gets to hot bunk with Sheila???
Meanwhile, the smoking lantern is lit in the White Hut.
I don’t smoke. And I don’t particularly like to be around cigarette smoke. But this makes me side with those who do.
I don’t chew. And I have cursed chew after sticking my fingers in padeyes to retrieve a screw only to have to fish it out of the brown spit. But how long will it be before they ban chew?
And the people into self-gratification...you’re next.
Next they’ll outlaw cabin boys.
It seems like one place it might not be a good idea to smoke would be on a submarine.
If they think this is bad, just wait until Michelle gets through “revising” the menu and they get to enjoy tofu, celery sticks, and dehydrated carrots!
And just what are you supposed to do after hot-racking with Susan?
I’m surprised it was allowed before this! No, I’m not an anti-smoking Nazi. But a submarine is a closed system and I would think that smoking would put a stressor on the system that you would want to avoid.
-PJ
Geez...not that being stuck inside a cramped tube with a hundred other people for months on end is stressful enough...
“CARROTS! YOU WILL ALL EAT CARROTS...AND TOFU. WITH CELERY. THERE WILL BE NO BACON. NO BUG JUICE DUE TO THE SUGAR AND THE DYES. NO MILK BECAUSE OF THE HORMONES. ACTUALLY...WATER IS ALL YOU WILL BE ALLOWED. THAT IS ALL.”
Then, I can visualize the mass of enlisted people, surging towards the Captain’s quarters, butter-knives crossways in their mouths and blood in their eyes...:)
Hell...they already got rid of rum and the lash!
Until this I believe it’s been up to the skipper whether the smoking lamp gets lit on a submarine. I quit eight years ago and it wasn’t easy.
LOL...I had this vision appear in my head:
(Disclaimer: This is a nuclear sub in a WWII setting, so...think of the time frame juxtapositions like those found in the “Naked Gun” movies...
SETTING: USS LOS ANGELES, MOTIONLESS AT 100 FATHOMS. CREW HAS BEEN SUBMERGED FOR 47 HOURS. A ENEMY DESTROYER IS PINGING THEM REMORSELESSLY. ALL EYES IN THE SUBMARINE PEER UPWARD AT THE UNSEEN ENEMY. SWEAT RUNS DOWN THEIR FACES AS THEY GRIT THEIR TEETH.
CREWMAN 1: “I can’t take it anymore! I think I’m gonna crack if I hear one more ping!”
CREWMAN 2: “Hey. You wanna know what is gonna make me crack? The smell of stale tobacco on your frikking shirt. Of all the things in the submarine service, it is the cigarette smell on people clothes that makes me crazy.”
For cryin’ out freakin’ loud!! You volunteer to defend the country’s billions for a few bucks a day and you can’t have a smoke!?! What mambey pambey bs is this?
But really? On a sub??? I would have figured being "air tight" would by common sense prohibit smoking.
I was a submariner. Smoking in a sub was no big deal. But busy bodies who always want to impose their will on others are really beginning to tick me off.
the modern submarines have the first class air cleaning systems
The ventilation system on a modern boat is extremely sophisticated—air is constantly moving around and is filtered. The second hand smoke argument is pure B.S. It’s politically correct busy bodies doing what they do best...controlling other people’s lives.
Not a cigarette smoker myself, but there are places on a boat where people should be allowed to smoke. It’s hard enough to man up a boat and keep it at sea, without all this stupid artificial stress. And when the wenches come on board....
“but they are getting girls now”
And homos, so boys with boys and girls with girls...only then will the liberals be happy.
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