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I've been on a submarine life video kick lately and everything about it seems like a nightmare. Basically it looks like you take the worst parts about serving on a ship then make it worse by not even giving you the option of hurling yourself overboard and taking your chances with the sea if everything starts on fire or if you just can't take it anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VIuo3MFv_k Maybe it's just because I hate being around other people at the best of times, but I'm curious what the benefits of working on sub over a regular ship. Do you at least get paid more than other sailors?
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Also, until watching the videos I never even considered subs having their own cooking staff. I just figured it was like firefighters where everyone took their turn. Being a cook on a submarine raises its own level of questions.
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Dec 5, 2025 04:56
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I don't want to do it but I totally get it It's cool as hell and scary in much the same way as going into space.
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Dec 5, 2025 05:01
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Never shutting the gently caress up about it seems to be the only motivation that I’ve seen.
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Dec 5, 2025 05:01
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some guys just love being surrounded by seamen
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Dec 5, 2025 05:03
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You get to live the tube life
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Dec 5, 2025 05:06
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Like breathing only farts i guess
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Dec 5, 2025 05:12
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I've taken the tour of the USS blueback at OMSI like 4 times. Pretty much any time I've been in the area I do it for some reason. Let me tell you that thing is fuckin tiny. They even make sure to compare it's size with nuclear subs that came after it using a pic or models or whatever. It's a speck in comparison. Super cramped even with just the small tour groups. You have to crawl through dinky little holes in the bulkhead. It has an icecream machine in the mess hall though so that's the reason people like to crew them.
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Dec 5, 2025 05:15
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You're crammed into a tiny space with lots of other men? 
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Dec 5, 2025 05:40
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They say a submarine smells like feet and farts constantly. It’s claustrophobic and you get absolutely no privacy for months, no open spaces, no fresh air. The draw of a submarine: Best food, better than surface ships You don’t have to be out in the weather. Always warm and dry, out of the sun. Not much jogging and crawling in the mud bullshit. Many specialist positions. Better pay. Due to the lack of sun, your shift is always daytime for you, never having to work “nights”. Long missions away but long time off, too. Gay sex
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Dec 5, 2025 05:51
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l’appel du vide
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Dec 5, 2025 05:56
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The terrible thing is because there men have to doodoo and there's no way to do it without littering in the water, there are sailors whose only job is to eat the poop and urine so it doesn't build up. These men are released into the water to die once they are full because dead bodies are a natural consequence of the military lifestyle so it doesn't count as littering. What a terrible fate.
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Dec 5, 2025 05:59
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You get to share a bunk with lots of seamen
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Dec 5, 2025 06:53
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Gee I dunno all those hot sweaty highly disciplined men floating around in a giant metal phallus? I can't see the appeal personally.
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Dec 5, 2025 07:00
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It’s probably the closest you’re gonna get to serving on a space battleship. Plus if you have a heart attack and die, they can shoot you out of a torpedo tube for your funeral.
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Dec 5, 2025 07:11
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They have co-ed submarines now.
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Dec 5, 2025 07:13
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We found love in a hopeless place, a submarine.
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Dec 5, 2025 07:14
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kntfkr posted:They have co-ed submarines now. Cock Education submarine
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Dec 5, 2025 07:37
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sounds real cozy
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Dec 5, 2025 07:41
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My father served in a submarine during Vietnam. He was docked in Sydney once, spent some time on an Australian sub and he said their torpedo tubes were stocked with beer.
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credburn posted:My father was in a submarine in Vietnam. He was docked in Sydney once, spent some time on an Australian sub and he said their torpedo tubes were stocked with beer. I can't believe they put him in the torpedo tube with only beer to sustain him
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Dec 5, 2025 08:02
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Probably the incredible views
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Sailors on submarines oftentimes ejaculate into the torpedo tubes if they run out of lubricant but it doesn't work well because the semen gets crusty. It's one of those traditional things that is done in spite of the lack of efficacy, like your grandma giving you Rock n Rye when you were sick. Sometimes terrible mold grows and the men begin to feel ill and have hallucinations. Sometimes they manage to rescue submarines full of men who have gone mad because of this. They say it's like living in Wonderland inside of a snow globe you can't escape. There are bodies that have been eaten in these submarines, even if the food stores weren't depleted. Nobody knows why it makes people start eating the dead. It's a serious problem in the US Navy but it's tradition.
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Dec 5, 2025 09:00
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you can get away from your shrew wife and feral kids for months, they can’t even call you
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Dec 5, 2025 09:02
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The narrator of that video won't shut up about brave warrior guardians, sheesh I think I'm too tall to serve on a submarine, time to go check Seems like there's no maximum height so it's only my colour blindness and history of threats against the government holding me back EoinCannon fucked around with this message at 09:29 on Dec 5, 2025 |
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Dec 5, 2025 09:26
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EoinCannon posted:The narrator of that video won't shut up about brave warrior guardians, sheesh
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Dec 5, 2025 09:42
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The navy doesn't advertise it very well but if u do 2 tours in a sub you get free subway sandwiches for life, look it up
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Dec 5, 2025 09:51
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It's that you can give a shoutout to ODB, OP.
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Dec 5, 2025 09:59
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you never hear about dommarines
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Dec 5, 2025 10:29
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If you like ghosts, then you'll love working on them because every sub is insanely haunted.
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Dec 5, 2025 10:31
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I think they give you money for doing it OP
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Dec 5, 2025 10:48
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The Management posted:They say a submarine smells like feet and farts constantly. It’s claustrophobic and you get absolutely no privacy for months, no open spaces, no fresh air. I served on a conventional, not nuclear sub, so it smelled like diesel all the time with just the hint of farts, but otherwise this is pretty spot on.
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Dec 5, 2025 11:05
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can you grow a beard on a sub?
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ArmedZombie posted:can you grow a beard on a sub? Not enough room.
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Linux Pirate posted:If you like ghosts, then you'll love working on them because every sub is insanely haunted. Yeah. By farts.
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Bad Purchase posted:you can get away from your shrew wife and feral kids for months, they can’t even call you All that AND gay sex? Hell, 
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Dec 5, 2025 11:37
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:The terrible thing is because there men have to doodoo and there's no way to do it without littering in the water, there are sailors whose only job is to eat the poop and urine so it doesn't build up. These men are released into the water to die once they are full because dead bodies are a natural consequence of the military lifestyle so it doesn't count as littering. What a terrible fate. Some men choose the lifestyle, but others have it thrust upon them
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Dec 5, 2025 12:18
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EoinCannon posted:The narrator of that video won't shut up about brave warrior guardians, sheesh The worst consequence of the all-volunteer military is it attracts morons who believe this poo poo
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Dec 5, 2025 12:22
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I live about an hour from a Sub base. I've slept aboard submarines as well. The primary advantage as I understand it is the pay, the food, and iirc leadership isn't quite as bad. Everybody is all in it together so to speak and it's not a ton of crew so you can't really be too unpleasant. Anyway the beds or racks if you will are extremely tiny. Please excuse the seaman on the rack
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for more.
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I suppose there are no obese people on submarines. Even American ones.
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