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| Shopnut | Jul 30 2008, 09:48 PM |
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Being near or in the middle of a casualty and believing for a moment that it is a drill is not unusual or suspicious. I was stationed on a submarine years ago. One day we were scheduled for section drills (drills the whole crew is not awakened for). I could hear the faint 7MC announcements as I was trying to get to sleep. One of them was "torpedo in the water". As the sub began to shake from the flank bell and dive at a steep angle, I thought to myself that this was the typical way to set up a flooding drill, but that there would not be a flooding drill as the captain had decided to wake the crew with major drills. However, all of that changed when I heard the word "flooding" passed on the 1MC. I hauled ass out of the rack and started putting on my coveralls and shoes as the angle of the boat slammed me against the ammo locker. One of the senior electricians said something about this being a drill and I yelled that it was not as the boat was shaking from the flank bell and the emergency blow. He was not the only one who thought it was a drill. He certainly changed his mind right quick when he got out of the berthing area and saw water cascading down the ladder from the upper level. |
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