No, we were underwater for 3 months straight without any shore visits. No one left the boat, no hatches opened. And yet on month 3 the CO still did a command wide sweep.
This was on top of the random tests that still occurred. We would go shallow to receive data several times a day. Part of this data was big navy lottery numbers for random drug testing. They would store all the piss and ship it off to be tested as soon as we would pull up somewhere for resupply or whatever.
They just don’t play with drug testing. When your number comes up you pee. Everyone. Captain. Commodore. Doesn’t matter. Anyone getting a check has a number that can be called.
3 months is a long time without resupply. Usually we would try to avoid that unless absolutely necessary. It’s more common to do a month or month and a half and pull in somewhere to pick up or drop off people and get food and parts.
There are constantly people coming on the boat or going off. We have inspections every time, and you also have squadron come on for a week before the inspection to do work ups. Then you have people who lose family members, or get super sick. Stuff happens.
Really the food and the parts are the big things. At 90 days you run out of everything. You are eating beans and chicken nuggets every meal. Yea you can stay out there. But it’s miserable. Much better to pull in somewhere for 2 days and get eggs and veggies and ice cream and shit.
No, we were underwater for 3 months straight without any shore visits. No one left the boat, no hatches opened. And yet on month 3 the CO still did a command wide sweep.
This was on top of the random tests that still occurred. We would go shallow to receive data several times a day. Part of this data was big navy lottery numbers for random drug testing. They would store all the piss and ship it off to be tested as soon as we would pull up somewhere for resupply or whatever.
They just don’t play with drug testing. When your number comes up you pee. Everyone. Captain. Commodore. Doesn’t matter. Anyone getting a check has a number that can be called.
So you guys typically don't spend 3 months straight underwater? I figured you go on like a 6 month patrol then go back to home port.
3 months is a long time without resupply. Usually we would try to avoid that unless absolutely necessary. It’s more common to do a month or month and a half and pull in somewhere to pick up or drop off people and get food and parts.
There are constantly people coming on the boat or going off. We have inspections every time, and you also have squadron come on for a week before the inspection to do work ups. Then you have people who lose family members, or get super sick. Stuff happens.
Really the food and the parts are the big things. At 90 days you run out of everything. You are eating beans and chicken nuggets every meal. Yea you can stay out there. But it’s miserable. Much better to pull in somewhere for 2 days and get eggs and veggies and ice cream and shit.