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Originally Posted by sarettah
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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Last year I spent a month in Mobile Alabama, and toured the USS Alabama and the submarine, the USS Drum. The USS Alabama was pretty fucking tight quarters, and that's a battleship. But I thought I was going to have a fucking panic attack just being inside the USS Drum, and I noticed several of the racks were set up over top of torpedoes. It takes a special breed to be able to sleep like that...
