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To: fortheDeclaration

Now they are serving on subs.


124 posted on 02/17/2012 11:42:11 PM PST by alpo
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To: alpo

I had a very good friend during the last years of his sub career, and used to know other submariners and go to our local Horse and Cow.

The more one learns about sub life, the more on realizes what a totally alien life and social structure it is, individuals are not merely interchangeable as they were with my army life outdoors where social cohesion is much looser and tolerant, and where people have room to breathe and create a little space, and find distractions, and even change a negative dynamic.

Something that he described that was chilling, is on the rare occasion where the crowd focuses on an individual’s failings, or faults, and it can’t stop, they are all locked inside a tiny cage underwater and the negative focus has nothing to distract it, to to break it.

He said that individuals have had to be removed from a sub once an opportunity arose to accomplish that. I doubt that things will be smoother, or less complicated when the teenage girls and 20 year old divorcees are introduced into the tiny capsule for six month underwater lockups.


127 posted on 02/18/2012 12:00:26 AM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: alpo

Insanity rules!


130 posted on 02/18/2012 1:23:09 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Burke)
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