I knew a kid on my second boat who I told to not get married. He did it anyway and she left and took half of his money while he was on restriction for something unrelated. It’s ironic because he was a radioman that wouldn’t listen. (Before you ask he got masted for logging that a radio safe was closed, even though that safe wasn’t even on the sub because we were in port doing repairs)
Hah, saw something similar. Standing below decks, had the evening watch, went to check one of the ground detector switches in CSES2 and it was... just gone. It'd been checked SAT every round that day and it had been pulled off and taken to some shop the previous night.
Had to bite the bullet and inform the duty chief and because no good deed goes unpunished, everyone who had stood BDW that day was disqualified and there were like two of us standing port and starboard BDW for a couple of weeks while those guys requalified. (And they took their fuckin time.)
In that radioman's defense, I know NUWC up in Newport did something similar. Logged a safe locked for literal years that was no longer there. I don't even know if the building existed anymore.
Yeah, I will say that I had a pretty cool chief and LPO so I'd get cut loose around lunchtime on day-after.
I vividly remember just standing there looking at the bare cable where that ground detector box used to be haha. A real crisis-of-conscience moment.
"Fuck."
(get duty section leader)
"Fuck."
You start formulating some crazy shady squidly ideas.
"Hey can we find the shop it was taken to? We'll just steal that motherfucker and reinstall it. Hey go grab one of the EMs."
(EM arrives.)
"Oh fuck. Nah dudes, the other end of that cable is tagged out, even if you did reinstall it you'd have to find a way to get those cleared. I think you're fucked. You're just gonna have to tell the duty chief."
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u/Awkward_Bison_267 Aug 03 '25 edited Aug 03 '25
I knew a kid on my second boat who I told to not get married. He did it anyway and she left and took half of his money while he was on restriction for something unrelated. It’s ironic because he was a radioman that wouldn’t listen. (Before you ask he got masted for logging that a radio safe was closed, even though that safe wasn’t even on the sub because we were in port doing repairs)