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Originally Posted by escorpio
My son and I toured a sub many years ago. No fucking way in hell could you get me on one of those things for 90 days. No fucking way. I would lose my shit in about 5 days and have to be heavily sedated for the duration.
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I did a 3 day trip from Bermuda to Norfolk as a guest aboard the USS Tullibee (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tullibee_(SSN-597). For that trip there was a skeleton crew on about 30 people and then another 30 or 40 guests. Still it was extremely tight quarters.
The Tullibee was built for a crew of 60 or 70 and when they pulled into Bermuda there were 155 crew aboard. They were hotracking (sharing beds, someone else uses your bed while you are on duty and vice versa) and had racks set up everywhere. Some were sleeping on top of the torpedoes.
I cannot even imagine a day or 2 under those conditions, much less a full deployment.
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