[HN Gopher] Sailor poets take over U.S. Navy deck logs on New Ye...
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       Sailor poets take over U.S. Navy deck logs on New Year's Day
        
       Author : throw0101d
       Score  : 69 points
       Date   : 2025-01-01 12:07 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | sgarland wrote:
       | Though as I found out firsthand as a young sub sailor, this
       | tradition is not intended for use by nuclear-trained personnel.
       | Whoops.
       | 
       | Somewhere in an archive, there exists a midwatch entry in poem
       | for Shutdown Reactor Operator on a Virginia-class boat.
        
         | macintux wrote:
         | Any chance that non-tradition is related to loss of the
         | Thresher?
        
           | sgarland wrote:
           | Doubtful; Thresher's main posthumous contribution (RIP) was
           | SUBSAFE. To her credit, it has so far worked splendidly, as
           | the only other nuclear sub lost was Scorpion, which was not
           | SUBSAFE-certified. Also, of course, there remains controversy
           | over Scorpion's loss, and some possible causes like a torpedo
           | battery explosion wouldn't have been covered by SUBSAFE
           | (though a functional emergency blow system, which she didn't
           | have, _would_ be covered by SUBSAFE).
        
         | bluGill wrote:
         | More likely a commanding officer who didn't care/know about
         | tradition and incorrectly told you no.
        
           | sgarland wrote:
           | I don't think the CO (technically it would've been OIC, as at
           | the time we were not yet commissioned) ever found out. The
           | Engineering Duty Petty Officer lost his mind when he did a
           | log review around 03:00, and then later in the morning, I got
           | a talking-to from various leadership.
           | 
           | The fact that I was fresh out of "A" School and a non-qual
           | probably helped. Nub shields are real.
        
             | bluGill wrote:
             | I don't know your situation but it has happened to others
             | who were able to find the right hermission and get the
             | [whatever] in truoble for making up rules.
        
         | sandworm101 wrote:
         | Ya, they said that about Norad's santa assistance program too.
         | Now it is a vital part of christmas.
        
         | mlacks wrote:
         | someone tried did this in maneuvering on an 88 in pearl i was
         | stationed on. Nothing crazy like NJP but ENG was not happy at
         | all
        
           | sgarland wrote:
           | To be fair, ENG is never happy.
        
       | bluGill wrote:
       | No link to this years poems?
       | 
       | I didn't look because my understanding is they all need to be
       | checked for classified information and thus the public can't see
       | them until late in the month.
        
       | jmclnx wrote:
       | Very cool, I hope this will continue on and maybe get popular
       | again.
        
       | rbanffy wrote:
       | We must never forget our humanity, least of all in times of
       | conflict. Art, in all its forms, speaks to it, and reminds us we
       | are not, and shall never be, machines.
        
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