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Really stupid questions about life as a SWO and anything else not aviation related [mod dog wuz hərə]
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Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
Ha, there was a case on Leningrad ASW helo carrier in early 1980s during Eastern Med deployment, where there was an officer who's regularly coming up late to the bridge to get OOD watch - for a munute or two, or three. There were four shifts there, 4/12. Other OODs eventually started to make a record of his arrivals, and one day when he was ready to pass the OOD watch to the next one, they all arrived in front of the CO and said no, he owe us one full watch, 4 hours - here is the record sheet. OK, said CO to him, you'll stand another four hours, not because I believe them, I'm just far from being willing to amuse myself by the wardroom mutiny. Rumors are he always came two minutes earlier from then on;-)
I've done two short underways (1-2 weeks each) on a CG. The first time was in one of the 3-man rooms closer to the wardroom, which wasn't bad for flight quarters. The second time was in the jungle all the way aft. Yeah, the chains were annoying, but the single biggest thing that sucked in that stateroom was the AC. The Hawaii sun just baked the flight deck which made that room miserable. And that's coming from someone who did four deployments on a FFG where the AC never really worked in O-country.
Also, at least my brain my was able to subconsciously filter the noise so I slept through the crap like chains, harriers, and things on the 1MC that didn't concern me from the real emergencies. I was CDO once and a fire was called away, I think I was out of my rack before they'd finished saying fire once and had to wait for them to call the tack # so I could start moving.
Oof. I was in the same room and we had the same AC problems. To make it worse, something caused a tremendous amount of water to soak through the carpet in the room before air det got on board, and there wasn't any airflow to dry it out. So we had quite literally a jungle back there. No-shave chits would've really brought the aesthetic together.
Gross. But carpet in a JO stateroom?
Unless it was carpet put in by the AirDet during workups.
There's nothing like finding out the fiber points of shipboard HVAC based on your stateroom. Onboard BHR my room was close to the start of the run while Handler's room was at the very end of a run. In port during the winter my room was so hot I had to wear flip flops and shorts while Handler had to wear watch cap, gloves, multiple coats.
Yeah, or whatever that weird blue felt-like stuff is. Calling that material "carpet" may be a bit generous.
Used to be pretty common in staterooms. I've seen it multiple times on older ships like FFGs and LCCs. Really, it's quite clutch. After a long day, it can be really nice to walk around in your socks on carpet. Just don't think about how old and nasty it may be.
Make fists with your feet like Jack McClane?
Its hard to imagine something with more potential nastiness in it than shipboard carpet. Just looking at it would give you athlete's foot.
That's exactly what I mean! Honestly, the only time I actually got a room with carpet was on MOUNT WHITNEY. I had become close personal friends with the Embarkation Officer and he hooked me up with my own private stateroom right next to his and I had the luxury of carpet, a sink, and privacy. It was quite excellent.
Also, I've survived living in Ops overflow berthing on an FFG and using the same showers as the deck seamen.
My feet have been basted with things far worse than anything a stateroom carpet can muster up. ?
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The DD-963 class had 18-man overflow/JO/aft female/air department/whatever-each-ship-in-class-wanted-to-call-it berthing about three decks below and on the waterline. There are pluses and minuses to getting put in there. It's a long way down and through a few scuttles and ladder wells (that gets old when you're carrying the "cruise 15"/SWO gut), the computers to do your job are all upstairs (maybe good, maybe bad), DH and above are uninclined to make the journey down there, the water laps against the hull and makes a soothing sound, the 21MC or whatever the hell it's called in the engine room is loud and easy to hear (so when one of the main gearboxes shits its oil in the middle of the night out in the North Atlantic, you know this is actually a legit general quarters and not just a silly drill- so put your pants on and head up to the hangar), the MR shop is right overhead and loud (ship's machine shop), and the air conditioning works pretty decent that far down in the ship.
Oh yeah how could I forget, the #3 GTG bleed air pipe runs right through there and when somebody did a half assed job repairing it then the lagging catches on fire on month 3 and for the rest of cruise all your uniforms smell like burned insulation.
How many of you guys had a no shit fire where you slept?
Oh yeah how could I forget, the #3 GTG bleed air pipe runs right through there and when somebody did a half assed job repairing it then the lagging catches on fire on month 3 and for the rest of cruise all your uniforms smell like burned insulation.
How many of you guys had a no shit fire where you slept?
Nasty JO stateroom carpet pro-tip: when the communal vacuum breaks, just sweep the shit out of it. Then watch in horror as no other staterooms follow your lead and the disgustingness grows.
Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
On Kashin-class, sailors from Aviation Dept who refueled Ka-27 right on helipad (no hangar on those ships), were living just below aft gunhouse and above main gearboxes. They freely spoke to each other near the helicopter with running engines. Being surprised by that fact, I've once went down to that bunkroom and was amazed even more - sitting on bunks, those youngsters were just gesturing. The gearboxes' noice at 25 knots was absolutely deafening, as if you have to sleep just on Marshall stage amplifier during the Motorhead or Slayer gig (Metallica is more melodic, in my opinion). But the guys had somehow used to it and slept with pleasure. Youth...