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Originally Posted by KCRfan1
Do tell Zach, inquiring minds want to know!
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Sorry... just saw this. There are so many and some probably best left unsaid. I'll throw out a few of my favorites that are PG rated.
- Guys would always try to lose weight on deployment. You weren't drinking beer or eating fast food and there wasn't really much else to do. Underway we wore poopy suits (Navy coveralls) and a web belt. It was a popular past time to find one of the "I'm losing weight" guys and secretly cut a little off his web belt over the course of a few weeks. He would eat right and work out but would get frustrated because his belt kept getting tighter.
- New guys were NUBs (Non Useful Bodies... or in the kindler gentler Navy a New Underway Buddy). One of my NUBs came down while I was on watch and wanted to do some qual checkouts. I found a random gauge and started tapping on it and told him he'd have to wait because the DCA was full.
OK so the military LOVES acronyms. On submarines there are many different tanks that hold various liquids. So this NUB just figured that the DCA was another tank somewhere and that it was full. I told him that he could help me out by going up to Control and getting permission from the OOD (Officer of the Deck) to blow the DCA (we frequently used air to blow the contents of a tank overboard).
So this NUB goes up to Control, walks up to the OOD, and says "Sir, request permission to blow the DCA". The next thing I know I'm getting a phone call from the OOD telling me to knock it off. See the OOD was my division officer, the Damage Control Assistant... otherwise known as the DCA.
- And one of my all-time favorites. There aren't that many black guys on submarines and it always seems like they are very, very, very homophobic... which of course means they get the brunt of the gay jokes. We had this black guy named Sammy that would lose it anytime someone did anything that could be considered remotely gay in his mind. One day as he's walking into the lower level shower in nothing but a towel a few of us started whistling at him and making him uncomfortable. My LPO waits for him to get into the shower (submarine showers are like a vertical coffin with an accordion style door), then he strips down buck naked, opens the shower door and climbs in with Sammy. I have never before or since heard screaming like that.