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Old 03-27-2025 | 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by SonicFlyer
You would think that NASA would have learned a thing or two from the Navy's submarine forces.
Oooh that's not a good example, workload is off the charts, QOL sucks bad. They hook you initially with marketable training and lengthy service obligations, and then pay massive retention bonuses to keep a few select people to move up the ranks (highest paid military personnel in the world). SSN = "Saturday, Sunday & Nights".

Missile boats are better, due to two crews, but nobody aside from strategic weapons techs can hide out in boomers their whole career.

But NASA did actually leverage Navy culture in the early days, there were a large (disproportionate) number of Navy pilots then (and half the AF pilots were Annapolis grads). The Navy guys were used to living on the ship after the flying was done, USAF OTH was used to hitting the links and the O-club bar.
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