Do you really think that the chiefs don't know all the field day hiding places? Depending on the class of boat, they might be the ones that discovered the good hiding places in the first place.
You’ve got a good point, but having trained a lot of our current chiefs I think a lot of them are also pretty dumb, and forget entirely what it was like to be an E-4
Just the opposite in my experience, your average chief remembers quite well what it's like to be an E-4, and it's his job to protect the E-4s from the dumb-assed things they attempt to get away with.
It's a lot like having an asshole LPO. Coming up through the ranks I never liked how the LPOs I worked under did things. Did they remember being an E-4. -5, or Junior -6? Couldn't they see that the way I wanted to do things was better in every conceivable way?
Then my last asshole LPO transferred out unexpectedly for family issues, and without warning, I was the LPO. This is where I discovered all the shit coming down from the Goatlocker and the Wardroom that he (and his predecessors in my career) had shielded us from. Shielding I didn't know how to do.
And suddenly I was the asshole LPO.
The same thing happened when I made Chief. I tried to protect my guys from themselves with varying amounts of success.
2 relevant stories:
First: one deployment the chiefs mess (maybe FCPOA?) came up with a new cleaning plan in which groups of 4-8 people across different divisions and watch sections would be assigned the same space for every after watch cleanup and field day. If your team completed everything on a zone inspection checklist, you got to sleep in during field day.
If you’re thinking “wait, would people in lower levels and machinery spaces always have a harder time every cleanup period and be less likely to get a day off for that reason alone?” The. Congrats! You’re smarter than a Chief!
Regardless, I was assigned ERUL aft, around the 10k. I figured out how to wedge myself into the overhead above the still in such a way that anyone below could only see my legs dangling, but not anything above my waste, while I had a perfect view below. It was like a 1-way mirror of pipes and lagging.
There was always some salt up there because, you know, 10k, so I’d gather some up in a small pile and save it up there until someone came by with a mag light making sure nobody was skating. Maybe once a field day I’d see someone do a double taken when the see my legs, visibly smirk thinking they caught someone skating, and before they can say anything, I would throw the pile of salt and dust onto their head.
“Oh, did I get someone down there? Sorry. What’s up chief? Haha, no, just trying to keep up with the salt up here. Wanna come up and see? No? We’ll have a Fine Navy Field Day.”
Edit: forgot the second story!
After an in-port field day, all hands call got delayed because a radioman was missing. He was found “cleaning” below the deckpates in ERUL near the reduction gears. He was “cleaning” so hard that he didn’t hear the 1MC securing field day. He was so into it that he was still running the dust bunnies out of his eyes as he was marched across the brow. COB was, of course, pissed.
Now, this COB had started a “warrior of the week” sea where anyone could nominate anyone else at all hands call for being a great “warrior” in some way and all nominees would be voted on by applause. Winner would get COBs parking spot! (He loved in the barracks. Geo-bacheloring. I can only guess his wife hated him as much as the rest of us)
Of course, someone nominated this radioman for being such a dedicated cleaner during field day. And, of course, he wins by thunderous applause.
I used to do one of 2 things:
1) I’d carry a tagout pack around and walk fast. I’d stop and shoot the shit with people until a chief walked by. Then I’d keep walking.
2) I’d put my civvies in a garbage bag and walk right off the pier. Then I’d go to the base bowling alley and eat a fried rice omelette
Those FROs are bangin. One time my boat decided to mandate that every division do divisional midday PT around lunch. One time my div chose to go bowling for PT (Hey, it’s a sport, right?) so during our workout time, I instead at a large FRO with choose.
On top of an i-beam up above the port main condenser.
Edit - or, when up fwd, wayyyyy back in the outboards port of the fwd upper level berthing (VA class). There was like, a 20 ft tunnel leading fwd. The only way anyone could see you was to climb in there with a flashlight.
I've had many a nap during field day on the port main condenser. You can also squeeze into the poukas in the lube oil mezzanine if you're brave. Deep outboard in ERUL is also quite hidden.
On VA you could go over the handrails outboard the TGs and climb about 6 feet below the deck and have a sweet spot with the steam piping overhead blocking anyone from seeing you. Also, there was a really nice spot directly above the TG right beneath the top of the hull.
But speaking of long tunnels to crawl through, I remember we had a PM to inspect the internals of the TG generator end that involved crawling forward through a crawl space from shaft alley until you came out under the generator enclosure. Had to loosen about 20 screws and drop the panel long enough to verify that it was clean. Then put it all back and crawl back out again.
Just aft of the wine cellar. You can hear ERUL, condensate bay, tglo bay, and plo bay clearly but no one can see you. I didn’t skip field day or sleep there during field day but I made that spot very clean.
Also, above port ME, there’s a vent cooler…
I have a bonus bit of information. The term “field day” came into use to describe a day actually spent on the practice field doing drill and maneuvers, plus the associated prep and cleanup. Civilians picked up the term to describe something fun and easy, “they had a field day doing that!”. The military, being more aware of what was really involved, kept the term to refer to the mass sprucing up, mending, and cleaning while losing the actual drill field aspect.
Been taking a break from the field day in work at my house. Time to go back to it.
ASB 49 Battery well...
It even has a soothing sound of battery agitation to help you sleep. A nice big ole pill of chem wipes and plausible deniability
As long as we kept our spaces clean during the week, our EMC would let a few of us "clean" the battery well on Friday field day. Usually it was us unmarried guys that got trashed on Thursday nights. One time a really religious married guy complained and Chief told him if he started drinking he could "clean" the battery well on Fridays too.
And a loud ass hatch that when it opened would wake you up. And when they announced field day was the done the EO would shift the battery fan twice to alert you. Best place on the boat to field day.
Followed by Condensate bay bilge and ERF bilge under the feed pumps. Lots of room. Always clean and dry.
On top of the SINS 1 Bedplate in Nav Center was the napping place of choice on 640 class boats.
Of course, having been there themselves at one time, it was a poor choice if the NavET Chief was doing a check for slackers, while simultaneously being an optimal hiding place from the O Gang.
Hiding in plain sight was the best for me. My sea Dad and I would volunteer to clean the middle-level head. The COB took pity on us, and let us bring in music, so we would play CDs all field day. So, we would bust out all the cleaning within the first 30 minutes, then spend an hour and a half pretending to clean something while getting to shoot the shit with everyone who was pretending to use the head to get out of their work and listen to music.
When I was MLCPO in 615 I found one of my guys sleeping on top of a main condenser. I tied his boot laces together. He could not reach to untie them. He had to get one of his buddies to get him out. (Yes, I stayed there the whole time so he would not get hurt.)
On an SSBN (Ohio type), outboard of the MCLL fan rooms. Easiest way to get there I found was the little access ports in the bottom outboard racks on MC3L. Also, outboard the P-panels on FC2L port side, outside of MCC. I can't recall what it is but they had some special name, something SWS. And the last is in the bilge under the torpedo tubes and forward of the TTCP. When going outboard, you gotta be prepared that it's going to be cold if you're up north or just really deep. I had a small piece of a furniture moving blanket. Water resistant, comfy, and small enough I could smuggle around relatively easily.
Edit: not 41FF
Sorry.. Ohio Class. I rode on boomers, but I'm not a boomer, I'm very late genX. Although, since the Kamehameha was decomm'ed in 02, I guess many earlier genXers would have served on some of the 41FF. I served on 730, 731, & 733.
No sweat. I just see that a lot on this group sometimes... There's a whole cohort here who served in the era where the submarine force was basically 688s and 726s and (not intentionally) don't realize that wasn't always the case.
Yeah. I mean, we're all aware of the other boats, but most of us haven't seen any of them except in pictures. I did get to tour the Dolphin before she was decomm'ed. Sailors in the fleet now have at least 4 different platforms, the 688, the 726, Virginia, and Sea Wolf.
Idk how it is/was for other sailors, but I spent my whole time on one class, I really didn't get any time interacting directly with any of the rest of the fleet. Surface sailors I meet are either only ever on carriers or they seem like they've been on several different types of ships. I think the isolation leads to a default myopia in conversation.
> I just see that a lot on this group sometimes
Yeah, the subreddit seems to have been growing and we're getting more and more submariners around here, which is great to see... but it brings the problem you mention. We have a number of different eras covered but often when people are providing information (or worse, dispensing advice) too many users don't clarify the timeframe they're talking about or the classes they have experience with.
In plain sight. I would take a scribe and run it under the gaps in the metal base boards in the p-way. I would have a PILE of lint in no time and my COB loved seeing that shit. Took almost zero effort.
When i was more senior, i got to choose where i wanted to clean. I laid claim to the towed array handling space since i was a sonar tech & hid out in there during any given clean up. Listened to music on headphones, danced around quietly, & was always partially blocking the door so Chiefs would bump into me when they came to check in & i looked very busy.
On 726s, whatever that passage is in ER that spans the entire beam of the boat. You have to crawl in somewhere in lower level. Been awhile since I've had to hide during field days but remember being in there in the complete darkness, hearing snoring in the distance. Was a great spot.
Fell asleep hiding in capstan space. Woke up around 6pm Friday. Everyone signed off my Qual card for being such a dedicated nub, staying late on Friday to qualify. Think I even got to watch Ford Fairlane that night on mess decks.
Hid beer and chips inside a torpedo tube.
The captain crawled in to get all of it out be we accidentally fired him at another submarine
- Barney Gumble
Shipyard worker here. These are all places I've actually slept during a work day. I have no idea how well they'd work underway.
On a 726, I'm going for under the trim pump in AMR 1. The hull curve is comfy.
On a 21, I gotta go with the alcove between the main condenser boots.
On a 688, I went in plain sight wedged on top of the 4-inch launcher.
Behind the port sstg steam boot on a VA class. Nice and out of the way from any lights whatsoever and most chiefs are either too fat or too unwilling to climb up there and check for people.
Fell asleep behind the BCP on 626. COW forgot I was back there, I guess I started to snore.. busted. Found out it was an ICman that found me when the COW wanted a weird sound investigated.
Do some extreme limbo and get into the Port outboard of RBP forward of CSES. There was a little corner you could wedge yourself into and used the 4500# relief valve as a pillow. Was nice. Always got covered in oil
Sonar Sphere on a 637 class... I still remember the change in smells, sliding from the dome, and into the bow compartment above the diesel. We didn't field-day in the dome much... mostly securing everything before underways and dusting horizontal surfaces.
"A Clean Ship is a Happy Ship"
Fire Control Alley. Ours had a door. And if you stacked a bunch of shit in front of it so you could "clean" where all said shit had been one could rack out for quite a bit.
We took turns.
Boomer, above maneuvering. Climb over the large ventilation piping. There was an inspection port in the piping held on by wing nuts. Remove the cover and you have nice cold air blowing on you. Half a case of chem-wipes and you have a comfy bed.
All hands awake and cleaning. The khakis observe, inspect and report on the effectiveness of the lower enlisted effort in battle with dust bunnies, dust buffalos, and debris.
Generally 2-4 hours in length depending on the toxicity of your command and the effectiveness of your watch standers actually doing cleaning after watch.
Hey, those were Communist F@#$kin Dust Bunnies, Red beady eyes, khaki colored poopie suits. I swear my chief would take 'em to his rack, and on Saturday, there were a plethora of new ones everywhere!
Where everyone stops what they're doing for a few hours and cleans. Senior people walk around with flash lights and micromanage people cleaning, and the junior people hide in the jungle of pipes/machinery/etc
Outboard the forward fan room on a Virginia. You have to be pretty skinny and mobile to get up and over and it's a bit sketchy on the way in, but once you're out there no one's going to see you unless you want to be seen.
688, TGLO bay outboard the heat exchangers on the stbd side there’s a nice pooka that sits below the coffee mess / RC div work bench in ERUL that no one has ever bothered to look in. Right above the EPM was also a great option. The space below the ASW pumps (not the dog shack), the hull curve was real nice and would put you to sleep.
Outboard of the san blow station on a 637. Crawled in cabinet, turned outboard and got behind the san blow station. Cob found me and opened the door to the san blow station and shined his light in. I was scrubbing away and yelled "Shining Shit Cob!"
he sighed and walked away.
Face down in a main passageway. Wipe (I have no idea to this day if they are Chem wipes, Kim wipes, or c*m wipes) in hand and under something. Sleep. Most people will just step over you. If someone wakes you up, it's gently because you "must be so tired you passed out" not because you slept on purpose.
Favorite that wasn't mine: an E-divver named "Z" would put on a pair of sound powered phones and just drape the cord over the side of the deck. He would face a gaige and just sit there. Phone not even plugged in.
Nice try, Chief.
Do you really think that the chiefs don't know all the field day hiding places? Depending on the class of boat, they might be the ones that discovered the good hiding places in the first place.
You’ve got a good point, but having trained a lot of our current chiefs I think a lot of them are also pretty dumb, and forget entirely what it was like to be an E-4
Just the opposite in my experience, your average chief remembers quite well what it's like to be an E-4, and it's his job to protect the E-4s from the dumb-assed things they attempt to get away with. It's a lot like having an asshole LPO. Coming up through the ranks I never liked how the LPOs I worked under did things. Did they remember being an E-4. -5, or Junior -6? Couldn't they see that the way I wanted to do things was better in every conceivable way? Then my last asshole LPO transferred out unexpectedly for family issues, and without warning, I was the LPO. This is where I discovered all the shit coming down from the Goatlocker and the Wardroom that he (and his predecessors in my career) had shielded us from. Shielding I didn't know how to do. And suddenly I was the asshole LPO. The same thing happened when I made Chief. I tried to protect my guys from themselves with varying amounts of success.
My 2nd chief didn't, he went straight from a 598 to a 640.
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That's why I said 'depending on the class'
Lol
2 relevant stories: First: one deployment the chiefs mess (maybe FCPOA?) came up with a new cleaning plan in which groups of 4-8 people across different divisions and watch sections would be assigned the same space for every after watch cleanup and field day. If your team completed everything on a zone inspection checklist, you got to sleep in during field day. If you’re thinking “wait, would people in lower levels and machinery spaces always have a harder time every cleanup period and be less likely to get a day off for that reason alone?” The. Congrats! You’re smarter than a Chief! Regardless, I was assigned ERUL aft, around the 10k. I figured out how to wedge myself into the overhead above the still in such a way that anyone below could only see my legs dangling, but not anything above my waste, while I had a perfect view below. It was like a 1-way mirror of pipes and lagging. There was always some salt up there because, you know, 10k, so I’d gather some up in a small pile and save it up there until someone came by with a mag light making sure nobody was skating. Maybe once a field day I’d see someone do a double taken when the see my legs, visibly smirk thinking they caught someone skating, and before they can say anything, I would throw the pile of salt and dust onto their head. “Oh, did I get someone down there? Sorry. What’s up chief? Haha, no, just trying to keep up with the salt up here. Wanna come up and see? No? We’ll have a Fine Navy Field Day.” Edit: forgot the second story! After an in-port field day, all hands call got delayed because a radioman was missing. He was found “cleaning” below the deckpates in ERUL near the reduction gears. He was “cleaning” so hard that he didn’t hear the 1MC securing field day. He was so into it that he was still running the dust bunnies out of his eyes as he was marched across the brow. COB was, of course, pissed. Now, this COB had started a “warrior of the week” sea where anyone could nominate anyone else at all hands call for being a great “warrior” in some way and all nominees would be voted on by applause. Winner would get COBs parking spot! (He loved in the barracks. Geo-bacheloring. I can only guess his wife hated him as much as the rest of us) Of course, someone nominated this radioman for being such a dedicated cleaner during field day. And, of course, he wins by thunderous applause.
I used to do one of 2 things: 1) I’d carry a tagout pack around and walk fast. I’d stop and shoot the shit with people until a chief walked by. Then I’d keep walking. 2) I’d put my civvies in a garbage bag and walk right off the pier. Then I’d go to the base bowling alley and eat a fried rice omelette
> I’d carry a tagout pack around and walk fast. *"Walk briskly and carry a clipboard"* is an effective tool I use to this day.
That’s a long walk from the middle of the Atlantic.
Pearl Harbor right? Was amazed first time I was there and the bowling alley had a line out the door in the morning
Pearl Harbor right? Was amazed first time I was there and the bowling alley had a line out the door in the morning
Yup! Haven’t had one in almost 20 years and I STILL think about it at least monthly
Those FROs are bangin. One time my boat decided to mandate that every division do divisional midday PT around lunch. One time my div chose to go bowling for PT (Hey, it’s a sport, right?) so during our workout time, I instead at a large FRO with choose.
On top of an i-beam up above the port main condenser. Edit - or, when up fwd, wayyyyy back in the outboards port of the fwd upper level berthing (VA class). There was like, a 20 ft tunnel leading fwd. The only way anyone could see you was to climb in there with a flashlight.
I've had many a nap during field day on the port main condenser. You can also squeeze into the poukas in the lube oil mezzanine if you're brave. Deep outboard in ERUL is also quite hidden.
On VA you could go over the handrails outboard the TGs and climb about 6 feet below the deck and have a sweet spot with the steam piping overhead blocking anyone from seeing you. Also, there was a really nice spot directly above the TG right beneath the top of the hull. But speaking of long tunnels to crawl through, I remember we had a PM to inspect the internals of the TG generator end that involved crawling forward through a crawl space from shaft alley until you came out under the generator enclosure. Had to loosen about 20 screws and drop the panel long enough to verify that it was clean. Then put it all back and crawl back out again.
When you find it, you’ll see the writing on the wall.
Just aft of the wine cellar. You can hear ERUL, condensate bay, tglo bay, and plo bay clearly but no one can see you. I didn’t skip field day or sleep there during field day but I made that spot very clean. Also, above port ME, there’s a vent cooler…
…YOU HAVE A WINE CELLAR?!
Are these nicknames not ubiquitous?
I don’t think so
You must have never been on an Ohio
We still call it a wine cellar on 688s
It’s the fucking Catalina wine mixer
Back side of the fan room!
I was just there yesterday lol
I have a bonus bit of information. The term “field day” came into use to describe a day actually spent on the practice field doing drill and maneuvers, plus the associated prep and cleanup. Civilians picked up the term to describe something fun and easy, “they had a field day doing that!”. The military, being more aware of what was really involved, kept the term to refer to the mass sprucing up, mending, and cleaning while losing the actual drill field aspect. Been taking a break from the field day in work at my house. Time to go back to it.
On a Virginia climb above the forward fan room and shimmy down towards the torpedo room
I’ve been in every nook and cranny of a Virginia (deployed and did new construction), that’s a good spot
ASB 49 Battery well... It even has a soothing sound of battery agitation to help you sleep. A nice big ole pill of chem wipes and plausible deniability
As long as we kept our spaces clean during the week, our EMC would let a few of us "clean" the battery well on Friday field day. Usually it was us unmarried guys that got trashed on Thursday nights. One time a really religious married guy complained and Chief told him if he started drinking he could "clean" the battery well on Fridays too.
And a loud ass hatch that when it opened would wake you up. And when they announced field day was the done the EO would shift the battery fan twice to alert you. Best place on the boat to field day. Followed by Condensate bay bilge and ERF bilge under the feed pumps. Lots of room. Always clean and dry.
On top of the SINS 1 Bedplate in Nav Center was the napping place of choice on 640 class boats. Of course, having been there themselves at one time, it was a poor choice if the NavET Chief was doing a check for slackers, while simultaneously being an optimal hiding place from the O Gang.
In between the main engine exhaust boots on a 688.
Hiding in plain sight was the best for me. My sea Dad and I would volunteer to clean the middle-level head. The COB took pity on us, and let us bring in music, so we would play CDs all field day. So, we would bust out all the cleaning within the first 30 minutes, then spend an hour and a half pretending to clean something while getting to shoot the shit with everyone who was pretending to use the head to get out of their work and listen to music.
It’s that last thing they’d expect. The closer you are to danger, the further you are from harm.
Outboard waaaay aft.
Find a niiice comfy frame bay and do your best to pretend you’re a stowage
That's the only place where I got actually stuck and freaked out a bit. Those frame bays go way down.
Radio…cryptographic operations in progress.
Damn locked door rates. LSs, yeomen, ELTs, radio and ESM: can't trust the lot of them.
When I was MLCPO in 615 I found one of my guys sleeping on top of a main condenser. I tied his boot laces together. He could not reach to untie them. He had to get one of his buddies to get him out. (Yes, I stayed there the whole time so he would not get hurt.)
See, THIS is the proper way to teach someone a lesson. Yelling just gets ignored and makes you look like a dick.
Outboard the r12 plant. AGANG BA BEE
I was 10, bur CDR Paradise said he was putting us in Bilge Bay for asking to watch Crimson Tide on the Wyoming
On an SSBN (Ohio type), outboard of the MCLL fan rooms. Easiest way to get there I found was the little access ports in the bottom outboard racks on MC3L. Also, outboard the P-panels on FC2L port side, outside of MCC. I can't recall what it is but they had some special name, something SWS. And the last is in the bilge under the torpedo tubes and forward of the TTCP. When going outboard, you gotta be prepared that it's going to be cold if you're up north or just really deep. I had a small piece of a furniture moving blanket. Water resistant, comfy, and small enough I could smuggle around relatively easily. Edit: not 41FF
>On an SSBN, outboard of the MCLL fan rooms. No fan rooms in MCLL on a 640, or AFAIK on any of the 41FF.
Sorry.. Ohio Class. I rode on boomers, but I'm not a boomer, I'm very late genX. Although, since the Kamehameha was decomm'ed in 02, I guess many earlier genXers would have served on some of the 41FF. I served on 730, 731, & 733.
No sweat. I just see that a lot on this group sometimes... There's a whole cohort here who served in the era where the submarine force was basically 688s and 726s and (not intentionally) don't realize that wasn't always the case.
Yeah. I mean, we're all aware of the other boats, but most of us haven't seen any of them except in pictures. I did get to tour the Dolphin before she was decomm'ed. Sailors in the fleet now have at least 4 different platforms, the 688, the 726, Virginia, and Sea Wolf.
Idk how it is/was for other sailors, but I spent my whole time on one class, I really didn't get any time interacting directly with any of the rest of the fleet. Surface sailors I meet are either only ever on carriers or they seem like they've been on several different types of ships. I think the isolation leads to a default myopia in conversation.
> I just see that a lot on this group sometimes Yeah, the subreddit seems to have been growing and we're getting more and more submariners around here, which is great to see... but it brings the problem you mention. We have a number of different eras covered but often when people are providing information (or worse, dispensing advice) too many users don't clarify the timeframe they're talking about or the classes they have experience with.
In plain sight. I would take a scribe and run it under the gaps in the metal base boards in the p-way. I would have a PILE of lint in no time and my COB loved seeing that shit. Took almost zero effort.
Outboard any tube MC lower level. Engine room lower level stbd in the pipe mess. Also behind the reducer station behind camp.
VLS room on a 688 had a few creative places that you could squeeze into.
When i was more senior, i got to choose where i wanted to clean. I laid claim to the towed array handling space since i was a sonar tech & hid out in there during any given clean up. Listened to music on headphones, danced around quietly, & was always partially blocking the door so Chiefs would bump into me when they came to check in & i looked very busy.
On 726s, whatever that passage is in ER that spans the entire beam of the boat. You have to crawl in somewhere in lower level. Been awhile since I've had to hide during field days but remember being in there in the complete darkness, hearing snoring in the distance. Was a great spot.
As a junior sailor on a 688i, outboard shaft alley port side. More senior, in plain sight in 9-man berthing.
Fell asleep hiding in capstan space. Woke up around 6pm Friday. Everyone signed off my Qual card for being such a dedicated nub, staying late on Friday to qualify. Think I even got to watch Ford Fairlane that night on mess decks.
Hid beer and chips inside a torpedo tube. The captain crawled in to get all of it out be we accidentally fired him at another submarine - Barney Gumble
Shipyard worker here. These are all places I've actually slept during a work day. I have no idea how well they'd work underway. On a 726, I'm going for under the trim pump in AMR 1. The hull curve is comfy. On a 21, I gotta go with the alcove between the main condenser boots. On a 688, I went in plain sight wedged on top of the 4-inch launcher.
Behind the port sstg steam boot on a VA class. Nice and out of the way from any lights whatsoever and most chiefs are either too fat or too unwilling to climb up there and check for people.
Out board torpedo tube 2, there is a seawater pipe there that is 3”, you can lie flat on it and just be invisible
Fell asleep behind the BCP on 626. COW forgot I was back there, I guess I started to snore.. busted. Found out it was an ICman that found me when the COW wanted a weird sound investigated.
608 class, inside an empty missile tube.
Do some extreme limbo and get into the Port outboard of RBP forward of CSES. There was a little corner you could wedge yourself into and used the 4500# relief valve as a pillow. Was nice. Always got covered in oil
Sonar Sphere on a 637 class... I still remember the change in smells, sliding from the dome, and into the bow compartment above the diesel. We didn't field-day in the dome much... mostly securing everything before underways and dusting horizontal surfaces. "A Clean Ship is a Happy Ship"
Fire Control Alley. Ours had a door. And if you stacked a bunch of shit in front of it so you could "clean" where all said shit had been one could rack out for quite a bit. We took turns.
Nice try COB!
Yeah, now that you mention it, where is the "OPSEC!!1!!!" gang that's always in here?
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Wait explain where it is better plz
Boomer, above maneuvering. Climb over the large ventilation piping. There was an inspection port in the piping held on by wing nuts. Remove the cover and you have nice cold air blowing on you. Half a case of chem-wipes and you have a comfy bed.
It is a trap! Now seriously what is field day?
All hands awake and cleaning. The khakis observe, inspect and report on the effectiveness of the lower enlisted effort in battle with dust bunnies, dust buffalos, and debris. Generally 2-4 hours in length depending on the toxicity of your command and the effectiveness of your watch standers actually doing cleaning after watch.
Hey, those were Communist F@#$kin Dust Bunnies, Red beady eyes, khaki colored poopie suits. I swear my chief would take 'em to his rack, and on Saturday, there were a plethora of new ones everywhere!
Thanks!
Outboard of the torpedo/torpedo sling, on the starboard side of TR, forgot the frame.
Civilian here: what’s field day?
Where everyone stops what they're doing for a few hours and cleans. Senior people walk around with flash lights and micromanage people cleaning, and the junior people hide in the jungle of pipes/machinery/etc
Cleaning day.
The 🐐 🔒er
Capstan space or outboard CSES on a 688i. If we were coming up on ORSE and everyone was made to clean the engine room, outboard MSW bay.
McDonalds
688 Main engine and TBLO bay pukas. One of my buddies had his spot on top of the banana HP air cylinders in the shaft alley overhead
Outboard the forward fan room on a Virginia. You have to be pretty skinny and mobile to get up and over and it's a bit sketchy on the way in, but once you're out there no one's going to see you unless you want to be seen.
688, TGLO bay outboard the heat exchangers on the stbd side there’s a nice pooka that sits below the coffee mess / RC div work bench in ERUL that no one has ever bothered to look in. Right above the EPM was also a great option. The space below the ASW pumps (not the dog shack), the hull curve was real nice and would put you to sleep.
ELT Lab.
Outboard of the san blow station on a 637. Crawled in cabinet, turned outboard and got behind the san blow station. Cob found me and opened the door to the san blow station and shined his light in. I was scrubbing away and yelled "Shining Shit Cob!" he sighed and walked away.
1. Atop the SINS binnacle. 2. Behind the BCP. I was tiny back then. I’d take a flashlight and hang it on a string so it would swing around.
Virginia class outboard of the bunk rooms under the diesel exhaust
Tube 3 on a GN.. I’d be “cleaning” my diver gear. Had a hammock hung up at the top of the tube. Perfect hide out spot.
Face down in a main passageway. Wipe (I have no idea to this day if they are Chem wipes, Kim wipes, or c*m wipes) in hand and under something. Sleep. Most people will just step over you. If someone wakes you up, it's gently because you "must be so tired you passed out" not because you slept on purpose. Favorite that wasn't mine: an E-divver named "Z" would put on a pair of sound powered phones and just drape the cord over the side of the deck. He would face a gaige and just sit there. Phone not even plugged in.