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#21
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Joined APC: Apr 2011
Posts: 1,477
I've taken ships into the yards. It's amazing how sloppy the civilians (especially .gov shipyard civilians) can be compared to USN sailors, back in the day it seemed like they partied all night, came straight to work, and tried to find a quiet corner to sleep it off in. If they couldn't do that, speed would help get them through the shift. I saw multiple fires, leaks, and flooding. Including one guy who opened up a live 3000 psi hyd system because he was too lazy to do the tag out paperwork... a very large hyd system, with massive accumulator capacity. He was lucky the engine room didn't explode when he aerosol-ed a few hundred gallons. They had to bring in a special crew and take a couple weeks to wipe it up in all the nooks and crannies.
Midnight shift was the worst.
There may be a systemic problem, but don't blame the crew just yet. Their role is often hall monitor, and the civilians don't want to be monitored.
Midnight shift was the worst.
There may be a systemic problem, but don't blame the crew just yet. Their role is often hall monitor, and the civilians don't want to be monitored.
#22
#23
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...to-change-that
Nor is this sort of cr@p limited to shipyards. This has been going on now for years:
https://www.overtdefense.com/2020/06...l-tank-debris/
I’m not sure why not leaving your bucking bars, riveting guns, spare rivets, and old Big Mac wrappers from your lunch in the fuel tanks should be such a difficult concept to get across...
#24
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Joined APC: Apr 2011
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I'm no Lindsey Graham. Just a lowly taxpayer/furry slipper patriot & trained risk assessment manager. Our Navy, our sailors. There's charges in there somewhere. Take away? If you see something, for chit's sake, say something. Thank you for your service.
#25
Article suggest applying NNPS standards to the fleet... but nukes are screened heavily (top asvab for enlisted, most officers are STEM grads). Their training is lengthy, expensive and attrition-heavy. Then they have to pay massive bonuses for retention (highest paid mil professionals are not fighter pilots, they are submarine officers).
I expect (hope) to see some improvements to shipyard industrial hygiene standards out of this. Overdue IMO.
I expect (hope) to see some improvements to shipyard industrial hygiene standards out of this. Overdue IMO.
#26
Sounds like some things haven't changed, although I'm sure there's been some improvement since the cold war era. One of the most egregious examples has not been repeated to my knowledge... hung over yard worker crawled up into a submarine ballast tank via the bottom vents to sleep it off. Boat was scheduled to float and get underway that day, he must have slept good because he missed the drydock flooding until it was too late.
#27
My brother told me that it people smoking caught stuff on fire all the time on ships. I know they have designated "smoking areas", but the extent to which smoking is rampant in the military and anything associated with it, is absolutely staggering IME. It all kind of stems from the "don't worry about your body now, push it to the max", which includes drinking, medical issues that show up later in life, inappropriate diagnoses and treatments, and so on. Command does little to discourage it and they tend to see it as a "right" that these people "need to be able to smoke", so the inevitable outcome is fires caused by people smoking in areas they shouldn't be. Of course, there are plenty of other sources of fire...but this is one of the common ones...
#28
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My brother told me that it people smoking caught stuff on fire all the time on ships. I know they have designated "smoking areas", but the extent to which smoking is rampant in the military and anything associated with it, is absolutely staggering IME. It all kind of stems from the "don't worry about your body now, push it to the max", which includes drinking, medical issues that show up later in life, inappropriate diagnoses and treatments, and so on. Command does little to discourage it and they tend to see it as a "right" that these people "need to be able to smoke", so the inevitable outcome is fires caused by people smoking in areas they shouldn't be. Of course, there are plenty of other sources of fire...but this is one of the common ones...
#30
My brother told me that it people smoking caught stuff on fire all the time on ships. I know they have designated "smoking areas", but the extent to which smoking is rampant in the military and anything associated with it, is absolutely staggering IME. It all kind of stems from the "don't worry about your body now, push it to the max", which includes drinking, medical issues that show up later in life, inappropriate diagnoses and treatments, and so on. Command does little to discourage it and they tend to see it as a "right" that these people "need to be able to smoke", so the inevitable outcome is fires caused by people smoking in areas they shouldn't be. Of course, there are plenty of other sources of fire...but this is one of the common ones...
Smoking is on it's way out in the mil, and smokeless is not far behind, although I'm not sure if a total ban is in the near-term cards given the demographics and attitudes you mentioned. It's pretty much already banned indoors or inside ships, which means people on small ships or subs have to go smokeless since you can't be outside the hull during certain operational conditions.
Although smoking (and screwing) in fan rooms has always been a thing, although nothing inside a big metal fan box should burn.
Also alcohol abuse went from encouraged to tolerated, to discouraged, to actual mild institutional disapproval of any alcohol consumption. The tides are shifting for sure, the USN gyms used to be fairly open, mostly a few muscleheads and whatever divers, marines, firemen, etc. were stationed nearby. Now (pre-covid) they're full of junior and mid-grade enlisted plus their spouses. Sat AM used to be a great time to have a mil gym to yourself, but not any more. I'm not complaining though, glad to see the younger folks enjoying a healthy lifestyle.
Was your brother in prior to 2010?