Their equivalents of John McCain. Weird.
It’s because life on a submarine is difficult, and people use their connections to get out of it if they can. So the only people who know this is the best gig they can get go there.
“Their equivalents of John McCain. Weird.”
Have you ever read the book Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald? Here is the synopsis of the book. “Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the “Push Buttons,” a machine devised to activate the atomic destruction of the enemy, in the country’s deepest bomb shelter. Four thousand feet underground, Level 7 has been built to withstand the most devastating attack and to be self-sufficient for five hundred years. Selected according to a psychological profile that assures their willingness to destroy all life on Earth, those who are sent down may never return.”
For a Chinese skipper, you don’t have to be smart. The skipper has been indoctrinated over many years to support the party and would do anything asked without understanding the consequences. He just has to do his job and in a Chinese nuclear submarine it means taking a key, turning it and pushing a button. Doesn’t take a genius, because the genius will question his own morality of what is about to take place.
In the US Navy, those same captains understand the morality and ethical challenges of unleashing nuclear hell on the enemy and have accepted it.
If every chicom sub captain loses subs as efficiently as McCain lost aircraft, then the world will be a better place.