Did three submarine tours as enlisted and then deep submergence program and sub tender tours as an officer. It's not for everyone, but you meet the smartest and most dedicated ppl in the submarine force, conduct operations you'll never be able to talk about or forget, and meet men you'll be friends with for the rest of your life. Will probably always be the thing I'm most proud of and have unbelievable memories of the accomplishments and hard work that we did
So true. Did many things on my West PAC I can never speak of. I knew I was in the navy when we pulled into Subic and partied for 29 days while our trim pump was being repaired.
LOL I was in the Army Security Agency and my older brother was in the Naval Security Group. When we first got out neither one of us could discuss much of what we did. Now, 40 years later we feel that we can!
13:33 @bluto212 is it over two hours, with two fifteen min surface breaks per hour. With lunch served in the sunshining and a nice cool breeze. Sign me up. Otherwise hats off to the brave and strong men and women who serve. THANKS.
These subs have come a long way but it takes someone special I know I would freak out being stuck inside something that is so deep under the water. Its almost like being buried alive. I am grateful for these men and women doing this its a big sacrifice and my hat is off to them!!
Indeed! I served on two surface ships, and one of my favorite ways to relax was to walk out along the main deck at night, stop and listen to the water rushing by. I know this may seem cheezy, but looking out at the horizon, you could almost feel at one with the universe. Can't do that on a sub.
I spent 4 years USMC Infantry and loved it. You couldn't pay me enough to be on a sub. Im fairly tough but I would seriously have a break down being that confined. I get freaked out in tight spaces!. Hats off to them
My Father was a Navy man. When I was young, he took us on a tour of a Navy sub -- I'll never forget the experience, but this video gives a much better perspective of our subs. Thanks!
I was a cook on the USS West Virginia ssbn736 gold. This brings back a lot of memories! Of course in 1998 cell phones weren't even an issue- when we were able to get a family gram it was pretty short and printed put and given to us. I see some differences with more computers being utilized in some areas on-board, but really not much else. Best food in the navy and then some!
But how could you guys workout ?? This video shows very limited options for working out. Maintain a healthy weight or lose weight is as important as eating, right?
@sieunhau1 I packed on a lot of pounds, especially as a cook. There were weights and some cardio machines - you could work out if you really wanted to.
@@sieunhau1are you blind buddy , there were 2 exercise bikes free weights and ever herd off the best form off exercise calisthenics your own body weight push ups dips boxing 🥊 if you can’t lose gain or maintain weight with all this available then your pathetic or full off excuses
“Hot Racking” not “Hot Bunking.” I’m a retired Chief Hospital Corpsman with twenty one years in service under my belt. And yes, submariners eat like kings in a toilet paper roll. It beats the MREs and vacutainers which feed me for so many years on the Green side (i.e. U.S. Marines).
@@ronbart8082no offence but when was the last time a US submarine ever fired a totpodeo at anythings other than whales since WW2!! US Navy is the least effective branch of the military because the last naval battle was WW2..!!
My son is currently in the pipeline, graduates BESS this coming week, then he'll be in "A" school for a few months. He'll celebrate his 20th birthday on his first boat. Hooyah Navy.
He will love it. Had basic electronics in Orlando. "A" school in great lakes(communications) and "C" school(Calibration) in Denver(Lowry AFB). Some of the best times of my life. Loved the Navy. Wish your son the best.
this is how I served my country back in the mid 80's and early 90's for about 9 years served in the submarine service, until i left and joined the submarines and served on the larger Nimitz Class aircraft carriers where I finally retired with 38 years in galley ops where I managed food ops and supervised thousands of mess hall specialists during my 38 years in the navy retiring is master chief. learned how to cook some of the best chow for hundreds of submariners, that brought those skills to the larger Naval Ships
These guys definitely have to have discipline and unity to get along and function in such a tiny space. Imagine if guys had beef, that sub would turn into a cage match.
Come on now; we talking about submarine military; they are not like soldiers or marines, way less meat heads, more nerds. Which is fine, I bet there’s never any fights. Navy people are different in mentality. I had a buddy who went navy when I went army; few years later when we met up. We weren’t even friends anymore, he changed very much, same with me. We talked about our experiences and his was a lot more softer, but I definitely would not want to be in a submarine vs a fox hole. But I will say; wish I went navy. They really do get better food; he talked about Friday was steak and lobster; He definitely enjoyed it; mine was just a suck fest. And not the good kind of suck off.
these are special people...................when I was in the army I went on a course in a WWII sub.............all I wanted to do was get the hell out on deck for fresh air.
Very good documentary; I'm claustrophobic yet I find submarines extremely fascinating and this is hands down the best way to visit one for a chap like me. Great respect and admiration for these people working in such a restricted environment; they have guts and backbone.
I deployed on many different types of ships including subs. Maybe it was an anomaly, but the best chow I ever had in my 25 year career was not on a sub, but an aircraft carrier! USS America during a North Arabian Sea deployment in the early 80s. Chow was good on a boat when you first pulled out, but once you "ate your way through the boat", and were underway for a couple of months, the food got hinky. But, it was a very different USN back then.
I agree, some of the best food I've ever had has been on the aircraft carriers, but unfortunately it's a trade-off for long lines. I remember waiting an hour and a half to 2 hours on lobster/ steak night for some chow.
I don't know where this tale that sub food is the best. the dollar allotment is the same. the food after a week is all powered, canned, processed garbage. No selection of beverages unless you bug juice (koolaid), powered milk, coffee, water is called a selection. Sucked. I road an Aircraft Carrier as an officer and that was 100X better. The living conditions were 100X better.
I served on HMS Revenge and HMS Renown. whats interesting to me is how similar a late1960s Polaris Boat is to a modern SSBN,. looked to me as the same layout...... I love my Submarine Brothers..... In Arduis Fidelis
I was stationed in Charleston S.C. in the early 80s on a sub-tender and I definitely remember the HMS Revenge tieing up to our ship. Took a few of your guys out to some clubs. Was you in this sub in around 81-85?
I’ve seen a video of a bunch of sailors in a sub having a Call of Duty competition. These guys are brothers to the core. I find Submarine life so fascinating, especially the galley and food preparation.
A shipmate of mine was returning home to the USA from Scotland and a 2 or 3 month boat deployment. A customs officer insisted that he open his luggage. Shipmate asked if he REALLY wanted that and was told in no uncertain terms, "OPEN IT". Once open, he was then told in no uncertain terms, "CLOSE IT!" The stink of all those months was nasty!
Hospital Corpsman were called pecker checkers, boswain mates were called deck apes, shipfitters are turd chasers, siglemen are skivvy wavers and gummers mates are cannon cockers.
Nevjerojatno! Biti unutar ovako moćnog nuklearnog podmornice mora biti nevjerojatno iskustvo. Detalji o kuhinji i spavaćim sobama su fascinantni, pokazuje koliko je sve savršeno organizirano i funkcionalno.
Naval personnel are just lucky the submarine forces attract sufficient numbers of volunteers. Because the day that stops, is the day they're going to start commandeering guys to the underwater service. Much like high risk tunnel rat duty during the Vietnam war. Luckily, volunteers carried the load!
I think submarines are viewed as something 'elite', a cut above, to a lot of 18-20 year old young men, and justifiably so. It takes a pair (including the women) to volunteer for duty like that, so I'm not particularly surprised that many volunteer. I salute them!
I never served on a sub, but I served on a rather small surface ship (an old 'tin can'), and my trick for finding privacy was to catch a nap in one of the tiny fan rooms inside the ship's main deck exterior. Even a fan room can seem quiet once you acclimate to the noise (decades later, I still need a fan or white noise machine to sleep).
@@Wildman706 Are you kidding me!?? I was on the "Mighty Mux" too (until it was decommissioned)! Then I moved to a cruiser, then back to Great Lakes. I recently discovered that one of the Mullinix's sister ships is maintained as a museum at a town here in Michigan. I've definitely added visiting it to my bucket list!
That was fascinating. Kudos to the submariners that is something most people could not do. Present company included. The food must be excellent . Though I saw no overweight submariners
4:17 It is a well established tradition in most armed forces around the world that the best rations go to the elite units, and you can't get more elite than subs. In WWII U boats also had the best rations in the whole german armed forces, better than panzers, better than stuka fliers, better than paratroppers, better than Hitler himself.
I turned 80 in April 2024. I served aboard the Diesel boat SS 572 in 1963, I earned my dolphins on that boat. The experience is what made me into a responsible and trustworthy man.
Started serving back in 2011 and still doing it! Been on two different platforms. One Los Angeles class and two Virginia classes. Love it and can’t see myself doing anything else. Seems normal to be but I will say that Seeing it through this perspective really puts it into perspective!
Submariners skate on the ragged edge of exhaustion -- as do all operating military forces. By the time you finally get to the bunk, it feels like a small slice of paradise -- for a few seconds anyway.
Fun fact: Soviet era Typhoon class submarines were so massive they had a sauna and swimming pool inside! I couldn't believe my eyes when I learned about this (it was a Russian documentary on submarines from the very early 2000s). Some Typhoons even had a video game console installed!
PS: like all submariners, they have the same issues we do with trying to keep in touch with families. After the documentary was shot, the captain's wife divorced him. She was tired of him being away for months at a time. The documentary made me feel a bit invasive as the camera crew followed every step of his working day from waking up at home to deployment to naval exercises in the Barents Sea to coming home only for the wife to slam the door in his face.
I'm from Ireland, I read (with extreme surprise) that the submarine was invented by an Irish man, John Philip Holland. His early research was funded by the Fenians, lol, it's stranger than fiction.
Not a chance I would serve on a sub. Imagine the crowding, lack of sunshine and fresh air with a breeze. Don't care how good the food is but thank God some will do it.
Happy Veterans Day brothers. I was a sonar tech on the USS Louisville SSN 724 out of Pearl Harbor....it definitely takes a different kind of person to do this....I miss it in a lot of ways
Spent my time in the Navy on a YTB attached to a sub squadron. We spent our time putting subs alongside a tender, and getting them underway. I don’t remember ever actually going inside one.
Never in my life heard the motto “ready for anything” Sun-marine-r not sun-mariner Hot racking not bunking. Nobody calls their rack a coffin, the style of rack is coffin. Your count of showers an toilet is for a fast boat but your berthing and laundry talking points are from a boomer. Meals used to tell you what time of day, now they are on a 24 hour rotation vice 18 hour so they typically know their normal routine. Foods not that great, just depends on who you have for cooks. They vary greatly. No ice cream all day. Wtf? Food below the mattress? In the showers? Come on man. I’ve been on every class of sun and that’s never happened even on really long deployments with more people than the boat was designed to have. Now I have walked on cans plenty with plywood on top. Store food in the escape trucks? Bruh, no. That COB needs to be fired. They don’t serve meals at any given time. There are designated meal times. Good luck getting meals outside those times. Beards and hair length only allowed while underway and not when you have inspections or usually when you have riders. Rarely ever do submariners gain weight on deployment. The lack of booze and fast food makes it almost impossible. Seriously, where do you get your info from? I mean most of it is fairly correct but there’s a large portion of verifiably wrong info that being presented as truth. The egg video is an abomination.
Thanks for clarifying. What tasks does a nuclear submarine have other than being somewhere it can launch nukes if needed. It seems pretty boring if you don't have to sink ships or attack other submarines. It must pay very good I assume. Cheers.
Boomers or ballistic subs are the ones that deploy and hide for the entire op. Fast attacks are out following specific targets and keeping a firing solution on it. And yes we would store veggies in the escape hatches since in almost all of your op areas you would never have a chance to use them. BTW No Pride in a slow ride 😊
I was wondering who they got their info from as well. Weirdest place I've seen eggs was PLO bay. Box said to keep in cool dry place, I pointed out that it was neither cool nor dry. Eggs went bad especially fast & the JOD caught $hit for not listening to the ERLL's. I also had the comeback to us being the "best fed" with "I'd hate to see what everybody else is eating". There were some cooks that made damn fine meals out of what little they had & those were hard to come by towards the end of my career. I'd like to see them discuss the intricacies of the $h*tter Ball valve.
You are correct eggs back aft and also cans on the passageways. Just so you know Submarine Food has improved over my 21yr Service. Good food and plenty of it, is so integral to crew morale. The CHOP best be on this or he gets fired. And many have. As far as the Chitter Ball Valve its sux if you are the one to eat the contents of the sanitary tanks. Never happened to me, but it gets even the best of em. @@tomaskren8686
I did four years on USS GROTON (SSN-694) if we were going out on a long patrol we did stack food in the lower level head. And on the decks (no plywood covering tho) but in the escape trunks?!? Not only impractical. But near impossible.
Oh Lord...the clip of this cook squashing the chicken breasts to cook them faster is a clip gone viral across all environments. He should be the Annual DO NOT DO Submarine Cook Of The Year. PLEASE....Please, do not squish, press, smash the chicken as it cooks, homey! Let it cook! If you must, place a cover on it. C'mon, you know you learned this in cooking school. How many submarine videos have I watched with this guy smashing chicken on the grill? Hundreds! That submarine needs a new cook!
@@virginiaoflaherty2983 Yeah I cook too, and that CS was smashing that chicken to cook faster. I get it, submariners hate being in submarines for so long. Sucks to be you.
Sir Basil Liddle Hart, WWI veteran, personal historical advisor to Winston Churchill during WW2, wrote a "History of the Second World War" and dedicated that history to the U.S. Navy, Submarine Service whose innovative service was directly responsible for the Allied victory. No other county nor service was mentioned. ❤
Total respect for those that work inside a sub. Hats off to them. You have to be of a certain mind set. I couldn't do it.
I could if I only got the coffee all times I wanted to.
@@Retsler54 oh you like cofee that much. I am tea guy. Coffe is like puke to me
@@arjunkc3227oh you like tea that much. Im a puke guy. tea is like coffe to me
That mind set would be insanity.
Who cares?
The logistics of storing and using that much food is just amazing
I served on a diesel/electric World War II vintage boat from 1966-72. Watching this video was like a biplane pilot watching Top Gun!
I'll bet!
Portsmouth
The Navy now openly allows gay activity. It has been decades since I was seriously abused for wanting to be open.
Is this video AI generated?
@@myeflatley1150 nobody cares bro
Any idea when the Navy decommissioned. Its last wwii sub ?
Did three submarine tours as enlisted and then deep submergence program and sub tender tours as an officer. It's not for everyone, but you meet the smartest and most dedicated ppl in the submarine force, conduct operations you'll never be able to talk about or forget, and meet men you'll be friends with for the rest of your life. Will probably always be the thing I'm most proud of and have unbelievable memories of the accomplishments and hard work that we did
@Leewilly440 Thank you, brother. Wish you and yours the best of life👍🇺🇲
How long is a tour?
So true. Did many things on my West PAC I can never speak of.
I knew I was in the navy when we pulled into Subic and partied for 29 days while our trim pump was being repaired.
LOL I was in the Army Security Agency and my older brother was in the Naval Security Group. When we first got out neither one of us could discuss much of what we did. Now, 40 years later we feel that we can!
13:33 @bluto212 is it over two hours, with two fifteen min surface breaks per hour. With lunch served in the sunshining and a nice cool breeze. Sign me up. Otherwise hats off to the brave and strong men and women who serve. THANKS.
These subs have come a long way but it takes someone special I know I would freak out being stuck inside something that is so deep under the water. Its almost like being buried alive. I am grateful for these men and women doing this its a big sacrifice and my hat is off to them!!
Indeed! I served on two surface ships, and one of my favorite ways to relax was to walk out along the main deck at night, stop and listen to the water rushing by. I know this may seem cheezy, but looking out at the horizon, you could almost feel at one with the universe. Can't do that on a sub.
@@pcbacklash_3261😮😮
Getting the urge to get out and being unable to do it. A nightmare
I spent 4 years USMC Infantry and loved it. You couldn't pay me enough to be on a sub. Im fairly tough but I would seriously have a break down being that confined. I get freaked out in tight spaces!. Hats off to them
@@johnshelby7973 my son just left yesterday for this program 😭 can't believe this is his job he choose
Sub life is for the mentally strong!
That sub seems to be really big.
My Father was a Navy man. When I was young, he took us on a tour of a Navy sub -- I'll never forget the experience, but this video gives a much better perspective of our subs. Thanks!
RUSSIA CANT WAIT FOR YOU
Nightmare for claustrophobic people.
Heaven for gamers.
@@palmbeach4825lmao
Это ты ещё российских субмарин не видел.
@@palmbeach4825Also paradise for people who loves being a submariner or too much paradise for thalassophoiba get it? Cause why not
That would be me. I would go insane.
I can't breathe just by watching this video 🌹
I was a cook on the USS West Virginia ssbn736 gold. This brings back a lot of memories! Of course in 1998 cell phones weren't even an issue- when we were able to get a family gram it was pretty short and printed put and given to us. I see some differences with more computers being utilized in some areas on-board, but really not much else. Best food in the navy and then some!
But how could you guys workout ?? This video shows very limited options for working out. Maintain a healthy weight or lose weight is as important as eating, right?
@sieunhau1 I packed on a lot of pounds, especially as a cook. There were weights and some cardio machines - you could work out if you really wanted to.
@@rsalek damn, very “limited options” for working out. Nah I am good, joining Air force maybe better choice.
@@sieunhau1are you blind buddy , there were 2 exercise bikes free weights and ever herd off the best form off exercise calisthenics your own body weight push ups dips boxing 🥊 if you can’t lose gain or maintain weight with all this available then your pathetic or full off excuses
@@sieunhau1 Air Force has great food also.
Army is last in food quality.
Probably comparable to prison food.
I worked as a seaman. I loved it. But seeing a vessel with no portholes freaks me out 😬😨
Thank you for this incredible video, Sir!
i got a tight feeling in my stomach imagining being under the sea in this high tech tin can 😬
can't give enough respect for these folks. Thank you to all
Nothing but respect for these men and women. Go Navy !!
Holy, This is one of the best videos of submarines I have found, thank you!
Also its soo crazy how tight the bunking beds are!
“Hot Racking” not “Hot Bunking.” I’m a retired Chief Hospital Corpsman with twenty one years in service under my belt. And yes, submariners eat like kings in a toilet paper roll. It beats the MREs and vacutainers which feed me for so many years on the Green side (i.e. U.S. Marines).
It must have been depressing dealing with all those corpses.
MREs are great. Especially the older ones that were geared towards actual Americans. Now its geared towards United nations.
That is amazing. Thank you so much. God bless the USA
I thought you guys only ate crayons? (Fly Navy)
Hot bunking in the RN. Even though the bunks are referred to as Racks lol.
Brother was on SSBN-741 for five years. He loved it.
Hooyah maine. Best boat on the waterfront
Some men love men!
Can’t imagine being over 6’ tall and serving in such cramped quarters.
waste of taxpayers money... you can launch an ICBM a million ways.. submarines belong to WW 2 era...
My first CO was bald and 6 ft, 4 in. He perpetually wore a band-aid somewhere on that dome from banging his head on something.
@@ronbart8082no offence but when was the last time a US submarine ever fired a totpodeo at anythings other than whales since WW2!! US Navy is the least effective branch of the military because the last naval battle was WW2..!!
@@Jesus_the_Muslim Our nuclear submarine force is our biggest deterrent to WW3.
@@Jesus_the_Muslim that's such an ignorant comment lmao 🤣
I was a rider on submarines and surface ships. I agree that submarines have the best food in the Navy.
Maybe best afloat but AF gallies are the best shore side. Retired Squid.⚓️🇺🇸✌🏻🍻😊
What’s the best meal?
And the Navy has better food than the Army on a troop ship
Carriers have the best food
When you are at day 60 and you’re eating three bean salad, powdered eggs, and drinking plastic cow that’s when I wanted off the thing.
I served on the USS Baltimore SSN-704 back in the late ‘80s. It was quite the experience.
A lot safer than living in Baltimore.😳
Thank you for your service sir.
@michaelancona1120 Thank You for protecting our great country.
Would you tell us anything about, please sir? Maybe what you remember most? Thank you for your service. Huge respect to you.
Not only are the bunks warm, so were the toilet seats!
😂😂😂
Hot Ker-Plunking.
😂😂😂
Not half as bad as that tiny, cold wet spot in the bunk.
Navys Best of the best freedom fighters and technical heroes.God speed to our submariners,Navy chief send respect to your bravery.
Spent 6 years in the Coast Guard. We didn't have subs but God Bless those sailors that deploy underwater.
Respect to these men and women.
My son is currently in the pipeline, graduates BESS this coming week, then he'll be in "A" school for a few months. He'll celebrate his 20th birthday on his first boat. Hooyah Navy.
@@flman1284 fantastic!
He will love it. Had basic electronics in Orlando. "A" school in great lakes(communications) and "C" school(Calibration) in Denver(Lowry AFB). Some of the best times of my life. Loved the Navy. Wish your son the best.
@@moosewild4239 thank you!
Hope he loves it like I did. It's a very exclusive club.
@@robotsnthat 🤞🏽🤙🏼
As a former Infantry Grunt…I’d trade my previous hardships for a tour on this sub any day.
Absolutely. Looks easy af
Nahh Fk that... there ain't even enough space to b*tch on one of those things😂
You aren’t smart enough to
@@patrickpittman2342yea, ok
You had your choice already
this is how I served my country back in the mid 80's and early 90's for about 9 years served in the submarine service, until i left and joined the submarines and served on the larger Nimitz Class aircraft carriers where I finally retired with 38 years in galley ops where I managed food ops and supervised thousands of mess hall specialists during my 38 years in the navy retiring is master chief. learned how to cook some of the best chow for hundreds of submariners, that brought those skills to the larger Naval Ships
@@John-or4mn Respect. Thank you for your service.
These guys definitely have to have discipline and unity to get along and function in such a tiny space. Imagine if guys had beef, that sub would turn into a cage match.
Come on now; we talking about submarine military; they are not like soldiers or marines, way less meat heads, more nerds. Which is fine, I bet there’s never any fights.
Navy people are different in mentality.
I had a buddy who went navy when I went army; few years later when we met up. We weren’t even friends anymore, he changed very much, same with me.
We talked about our experiences and his was a lot more softer, but I definitely would not want to be in a submarine vs a fox hole. But I will say; wish I went navy. They really do get better food; he talked about Friday was steak and lobster; He definitely enjoyed it; mine was just a suck fest. And not the good kind of suck off.
@@thomashenshallhydraxis Not after 4 months, people get very tetchy by then.
Respect to all the Submarine team around the world ... Very hard and stressful Job they doing
It's pronounced "sub-MARINE-er". Not "sub-MARE-inner". I am a submarine veteran and saying that word wrong really grates on our ears.
Too true brother!
Same with “korps man”. The “p” is silent: “kor man”.
Just call us “bubbleheads”!😁
Yes, this. It’s been sub-marine-er since I was in back in the 70s. I’ve even heard young submariners pronounce it wrong.
Perhaps I am wrong, but I think this is an AI voice. Also, the “wrong” pronunciation is apparently the British English pronunciation.
these are special people...................when I was in the army I went on a course in a WWII sub.............all I wanted to do was get the hell out on deck for fresh air.
Hats off to you because I'd lose my mind after 10 minutes of being there.
There Awesome!! Glad I was above water in my time in the Navy....
Very good documentary; I'm claustrophobic yet I find submarines extremely fascinating and this is hands down the best way to visit one for a chap like me. Great respect and admiration for these people working in such a restricted environment; they have guts and backbone.
I could never…
Hats off to those take on such a task
I deployed on many different types of ships including subs. Maybe it was an anomaly, but the best chow I ever had in my 25 year career was not on a sub, but an aircraft carrier! USS America during a North Arabian Sea deployment in the early 80s. Chow was good on a boat when you first pulled out, but once you "ate your way through the boat", and were underway for a couple of months, the food got hinky. But, it was a very different USN back then.
I agree, some of the best food I've ever had has been on the aircraft carriers, but unfortunately it's a trade-off for long lines. I remember waiting an hour and a half to 2 hours on lobster/ steak night for some chow.
I don't know where this tale that sub food is the best.
the dollar allotment is the same. the food after a week is all powered, canned, processed garbage.
No selection of beverages unless you bug juice (koolaid), powered milk, coffee, water is called a selection.
Sucked.
I road an Aircraft Carrier as an officer and that was 100X better. The living conditions were 100X better.
I served on HMS Revenge and HMS Renown. whats interesting to me is how similar a late1960s Polaris Boat is to a modern SSBN,. looked to me as the same layout...... I love my Submarine Brothers..... In Arduis Fidelis
I was stationed in Charleston S.C. in the early 80s on a sub-tender and I definitely remember the HMS Revenge tieing up to our ship. Took a few of your guys out to some clubs. Was you in this sub in around 81-85?
I wonder if we ever crossed paths. Served on diesels and Polaris back in the late '70s' early to mid '80s. Cheers deeps!
I’ve seen a video of a bunch of sailors in a sub having a Call of Duty competition. These guys are brothers to the core. I find Submarine life so fascinating, especially the galley and food preparation.
A sub's co2 scrubber not only has to scrub carbon dioxide but flatulence from all that rich food.
A shipmate of mine was returning home to the USA from Scotland and a 2 or 3 month boat deployment. A customs officer insisted that he open his luggage. Shipmate asked if he REALLY wanted that and was told in no uncertain terms, "OPEN IT". Once open, he was then told in no uncertain terms, "CLOSE IT!" The stink of all those months was nasty!
On Russian subs they give you disposable underwear and socks to wear.@@remaguire
I'm hoping that they eat more healthy than what we saw in the video
If you mean fresh vegetables those cause even more gas and they are perishable and has to be eaten first.@@gewglesux
Russian sub crews are given disposable fatigues, underwear and socks which don't have to be washed.@@remaguire
I'm not a military man, but I would love to be on a submarine like that for three months, I think it would be a wonderful life experience.🇮🇹💯🇬🇧💯🇺🇸💯
I was a surface ship sailor and complained about the lack space and privacy. I have all due 😮respect for submariners!
I have several family members that were in the Navy and Submariners were called Bubbleheads.
Be proud.
Still called that
Bugmariners in Australia bubbleheads are clearance divers.
Hospital Corpsman were called pecker checkers, boswain mates were called deck apes, shipfitters are turd chasers, siglemen are skivvy wavers and gummers mates are cannon cockers.
Nevjerojatno! Biti unutar ovako moćnog nuklearnog podmornice mora biti nevjerojatno iskustvo. Detalji o kuhinji i spavaćim sobama su fascinantni, pokazuje koliko je sve savršeno organizirano i funkcionalno.
Naval personnel are just lucky the submarine forces attract sufficient numbers of volunteers. Because the day that stops, is the day they're going to start commandeering guys to the underwater service. Much like high risk tunnel rat duty during the Vietnam war. Luckily, volunteers carried the load!
I think submarines are viewed as something 'elite', a cut above, to a lot of 18-20 year old young men, and justifiably so. It takes a pair (including the women) to volunteer for duty like that, so I'm not particularly surprised that many volunteer. I salute them!
God bless these soldiers....they go through alot and deserve nothing but respect
I am most impressed with the plumbing if that many soldiers ate that well the amount of dumps in would be astronomical 😮
It goes into a torpoodoe to be fired at the enemy, its classed as a biological weapon
Useless comment, you're quite obviously incapable to keep it clean and think others need your assinine input.
@@simoncampbell3144-- 🤣 I like the way u think soldier!!❤
@@simoncampbell3144 The torpoodoe? 🤣
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I never served on a sub, but I served on a rather small surface ship (an old 'tin can'), and my trick for finding privacy was to catch a nap in one of the tiny fan rooms inside the ship's main deck exterior. Even a fan room can seem quiet once you acclimate to the noise (decades later, I still need a fan or white noise machine to sleep).
I’m a old Tin can sailor too.Was a MM on a FF-1075,DD-863 and my last 5 years was on the mighty MUX DD-944.
@@Wildman706 Are you kidding me!?? I was on the "Mighty Mux" too (until it was decommissioned)! Then I moved to a cruiser, then back to Great Lakes.
I recently discovered that one of the Mullinix's sister ships is maintained as a museum at a town here in Michigan. I've definitely added visiting it to my bucket list!
Best video on Subs ever seen in my life ! Thank you
That was fascinating. Kudos to the submariners that is something most people could not do. Present company included. The food must be excellent . Though I saw no overweight submariners
4:17 It is a well established tradition in most armed forces around the world that the best rations go to the elite units, and you can't get more elite than subs. In WWII U boats also had the best rations in the whole german armed forces, better than panzers, better than stuka fliers, better than paratroppers, better than Hitler himself.
They are all heroes.
I turned 80 in April 2024. I served aboard the Diesel boat SS 572 in 1963, I earned my dolphins on that boat. The experience is what made me into a responsible and trustworthy man.
One word...YIKES!
Started serving back in 2011 and still doing it! Been on two different platforms. One Los Angeles class and two Virginia classes.
Love it and can’t see myself doing anything else.
Seems normal to be but I will say that
Seeing it through this perspective really puts it into perspective!
We rely on these brave submariners for defence. They patrol the cold dark depths of our seas as sentries.
It's "defense", not "defence".
@@renesoto-pintor2916 Not in the correct English speaking world it isn't.
I feel So powerful and relaxed at the same time. This is so energizing.
You don't tell how the Navy keeps the male and female sailors separated in the "bunk" areas and "toilet" areas?
thank you for making such intricate topics accessible!
As we said in the Navy......."Well done." I was PN3, USS Fox (DLG-33) Vietnam 1968-69.
Those bedrooms look absolutely miserable
@@BostonsF1nest I agree. Sharing a bed with a stranger( and not in a fun way) Ugh!
😂What do you do when a bunkmate snores 😂out loud? Ugh!
Submariners skate on the ragged edge of exhaustion -- as do all operating military forces. By the time you finally get to the bunk, it feels like a small slice of paradise -- for a few seconds anyway.
@@deannasalem145 They provide free ear plugs *lol*.
No, realy ...
yeah farts must be horrible
Thank you lady and gent's for your service God bless all of you
Fun fact: Soviet era Typhoon class submarines were so massive they had a sauna and swimming pool inside! I couldn't believe my eyes when I learned about this (it was a Russian documentary on submarines from the very early 2000s). Some Typhoons even had a video game console installed!
PS: like all submariners, they have the same issues we do with trying to keep in touch with families. After the documentary was shot, the captain's wife divorced him. She was tired of him being away for months at a time. The documentary made me feel a bit invasive as the camera crew followed every step of his working day from waking up at home to deployment to naval exercises in the Barents Sea to coming home only for the wife to slam the door in his face.
Thank God for our servicemen working to keep us protected 🙏
I served in USS Nathaniel Greene SSBN-636 two years and then USS L.Mendel Rivers SSN-686 six years in the 80's and 90's.
God bless these people. Thank you for what you do. Amen. 😊
After seeing this I am glad I chose to serve in the Army.
I'm from Ireland, I read (with extreme surprise) that the submarine was invented by an Irish man, John Philip Holland. His early research was funded by the Fenians, lol, it's stranger than fiction.
No thanks , not for me , love walking on land , but hats off to all those submariners , takes guts , 💜
Makes me appreciate even more all those that have served so I don’t have to. Thank you, all!
God Bless and Protect out Submariners. Thank you for the service you do.
Not a chance I would serve on a sub. Imagine the crowding, lack of sunshine and fresh air with a breeze. Don't care how good the food is but thank God some will do it.
Respect to all sailors in any submarine.
Thank you men and women of the u s armed forces
for killing millions of people around the world
Happy Veterans Day brothers. I was a sonar tech on the USS Louisville SSN 724 out of Pearl Harbor....it definitely takes a different kind of person to do this....I miss it in a lot of ways
Just watching this video makes me anxious.
This is great content on subamrines thank you
Sharing a bunk / bed with another person a no go for me
a single submarine like this has more technology and complexity than an average country has ever had, or will ever have...
God must be with them. They are blessed to do this. Thanks you all!😍
How are the kitchens vented? How do the toilets work?
I am extremely claustrophobic... I would never survive in a sub...
Same 🤦🏿♀️
Kudos to those who designed it! ❤ 👍 👌
I wonder do they serve beans on board those subs?
Beans beans, the magical bean..... The more you eat the more you toot, the more you toot the better you feel so have some beans at every meal..
Spent my time in the Navy on a YTB attached to a sub squadron. We spent our time putting subs alongside a tender, and getting them underway. I don’t remember ever actually going inside one.
Food on a submarine is the best.
Hard job. God bless them ❤
I remember when the Doc Roberts was a HM1 NUB.
Respect.
Cool stuff.
Awesome work.
Rock on 🤘🏻🇺🇸
One reason making it feel less cramped are the camo uniforms. You can't see fellow shipmates, making spaces appear to be open and uncongested. 😉
Most Advanced Machine In The World
Thank You For Feeding Them Well !!!!❤❤❤❤
I Would Be Cook
Everyone Would Love Me
Russian subs menu: Breakfast > Vodka / Lunch > Vodka / Dinner > Vodka. They're more economical.
God bless America. Having the good sense to look after those serving in the armed forces with excellent food.
12:04 Gaining weight tells me the food is very bad, to much suger as all bad food has.
Lack of decent exercise may also be a factor, notice no one can move quickly, very tight quarters.
I pray God keep them safe day and night that we and their family could sleep comfortable, nuf respect
Hell no I'm good
Wow . thanks for posting ...
Never in my life heard the motto “ready for anything”
Sun-marine-r not sun-mariner
Hot racking not bunking.
Nobody calls their rack a coffin, the style of rack is coffin.
Your count of showers an toilet is for a fast boat but your berthing and laundry talking points are from a boomer.
Meals used to tell you what time of day, now they are on a 24 hour rotation vice 18 hour so they typically know their normal routine.
Foods not that great, just depends on who you have for cooks. They vary greatly.
No ice cream all day. Wtf?
Food below the mattress? In the showers? Come on man. I’ve been on every class of sun and that’s never happened even on really long deployments with more people than the boat was designed to have. Now I have walked on cans plenty with plywood on top. Store food in the escape trucks? Bruh, no. That COB needs to be fired.
They don’t serve meals at any given time. There are designated meal times. Good luck getting meals outside those times.
Beards and hair length only allowed while underway and not when you have inspections or usually when you have riders.
Rarely ever do submariners gain weight on deployment. The lack of booze and fast food makes it almost impossible.
Seriously, where do you get your info from? I mean most of it is fairly correct but there’s a large portion of verifiably wrong info that being presented as truth. The egg video is an abomination.
Thanks for clarifying. What tasks does a nuclear submarine have other than being somewhere it can launch nukes if needed. It seems pretty boring if you don't have to sink ships or attack other submarines. It must pay very good I assume. Cheers.
Boomers or ballistic subs are the ones that deploy and hide for the entire op. Fast attacks are out following specific targets and keeping a firing solution on it.
And yes we would store veggies in the escape hatches since in almost all of your op areas you would never have a chance to use them. BTW No Pride in a slow ride 😊
I was wondering who they got their info from as well. Weirdest place I've seen eggs was PLO bay. Box said to keep in cool dry place, I pointed out that it was neither cool nor dry. Eggs went bad especially fast & the JOD caught $hit for not listening to the ERLL's. I also had the comeback to us being the "best fed" with "I'd hate to see what everybody else is eating". There were some cooks that made damn fine meals out of what little they had & those were hard to come by towards the end of my career.
I'd like to see them discuss the intricacies of the $h*tter Ball valve.
You are correct eggs back aft and also cans on the passageways. Just so you know Submarine Food has improved over my 21yr Service. Good food and plenty of it, is so integral to crew morale. The CHOP best be on this or he gets fired. And many have. As far as the Chitter Ball Valve its sux if you are the one to eat the contents of the sanitary tanks. Never happened to me, but it gets even the best of em. @@tomaskren8686
I did four years on USS GROTON (SSN-694) if we were going out on a long patrol we did stack food in the lower level head. And on the decks (no plywood covering tho) but in the escape trunks?!? Not only impractical. But near impossible.
Salute to these gentlemen. Looks like a living underwater nightmare to this guy.
Oh Lord...the clip of this cook squashing the chicken breasts to cook them faster is a clip gone viral across all environments. He should be the Annual DO NOT DO Submarine Cook Of The Year. PLEASE....Please, do not squish, press, smash the chicken as it cooks, homey! Let it cook! If you must, place a cover on it. C'mon, you know you learned this in cooking school. How many submarine videos have I watched with this guy smashing chicken on the grill? Hundreds! That submarine needs a new cook!
He was just touching it lightly to get a little sear on it.
@@virginiaoflaherty2983 Yeah I cook too, and that CS was smashing that chicken to cook faster. I get it, submariners hate being in submarines for so long. Sucks to be you.
Sir Basil Liddle Hart, WWI veteran, personal historical advisor to Winston Churchill during WW2, wrote a "History of the Second World War" and dedicated that history to the U.S. Navy, Submarine Service whose innovative service was directly responsible for the Allied victory. No other county nor service was mentioned. ❤
We had a hot tub and a swimming pool on my sub!❤❤❤