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Is the subpay worth it?

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Antonio11213:
By "subpay" I mean the benefits the pride, the actual pay, the tighter knit community. I am just more or less concerned on my height being an issue.

Marlin:

--- Quote from: Antonio11213 on Apr 05, 2017, 07:27 ---By "subpay" I mean the benefits the pride, the actual pay, the tighter knit community. I am just more or less concerned on my height being an issue.

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   In that case go for it, but then I am somewhat prejudice as I am a SubVet, the Base Commander of a United States Submarine Veterans chapter (USSVI), and a district commander of seven USSVI bases. When I enlisted I was looking at all of the services and wanted to avoid being drafted so I had at least some choice in where I was going. I was an avid reader of a number of SciFi authors who were also known as speculative fiction writers who had as many medical and technical books published as they did SciFi (much of their speculation is reality today). One of the books I read not long before enlisting was the "Deep Range" by Author C Clarke (inventor of the communication satellite). In this book in the near future we were farming and ranching the oceans with submarines. It was not long before that that Star Trek had ended its initial run as a TV series I was a fan of it as well, submarines were as close to a spaceship as I would ever get. At the time enlisting in the nuclear propulsion program was almost a guarantee of assignment to subs. I wish they were better at teaching legacy when I was in but there really was not much time. In Star Trek Captain Kirk a number of times said forget about me save my ship. In reality during WWII two skippers did exactly that. Commander Gilmore severely wounded ordered his sub to dive with him still topside to save his boat. Capt. Cromwell when his sub was about to be captured evacuated his crew then stayed aboard to ensure the boat was scuttled and to ensure he was not captured as he knew the plans for the invasion of Japan. It is a shame that I did not learn much of the Submarine Service history until I was out of the Navy for some time. In WWII the Submarine Service had the highest rate of loss, one in four men did not return and at 1 percent of the fleet accounted for fifty percent of enemy shipping losses, fully one third of Japanese warships were sunk by submarines.


 [navy sub]


 [salute]


 [coffee]

Chimera:

--- Quote from: Antonio11213 on Apr 05, 2017, 07:27 ---By "subpay" I mean the benefits the pride, the actual pay, the tighter knit community. I am just more or less concerned on my height being an issue.

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I'm 6'1".  The guy who stood throttle watches with me was 6'4".  My first XO was 6'3".  Height is just another thing to adjust to.

Antonio11213:
So I talked to a couple people who were stationed on subs in face to face conversations. Some were taller people, I am getting more and more excited for it. I'm glad I volunteered for sub duty. I'm getting excited.

Arxos:
You'll be fine. I'm 6'5" on an LA class fast attack. The racks aren't that bad. I can sleep on my side or back, knees only bent a bit. I did bang my head a lot my first month onboard, however.

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