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bobkoonce · 169w
Ok I am here…what now? I feel like I am reliving my father when I introduced him to the World Wide Web in 1995…getting old sucks. ;)
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Haha you've been on nostr for 6 months at this point?! Way to be ahead of the curve!
I think the beauty of being on an open online platform is you can just share what you want with people who want to listen. And I want to hear what a former sub commander has to say.
Don't even know what to ask, really. So I'll ask some random stuff. What was the longest time you spent between surfacing? What crazy crap do bored submariners get up to? What was a task on a submarine that was unusually difficult, which would have been trivially easy on a surface vessel?
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bobkoonce · 141w
63 days submerged was my longest run between surfacing. Before women in subs it was a locker room mentality so boredom led to stupid stunts and jokes. Frat boy crap like duct taping someone to the overhead. Fight club. Beauty contests in bikinis (dudes). Cutting people’s belts down slowly so they ...