"Deborah Terreson" (foodNOTSPAMandart{at}comcast.net) writes:
> In article  , dg411{at}FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Andre
> Lieven) wrote:
>
>> Not until very recently. In the US, still not on subs.
>
> The sailors in Sub Service are a wild bunch.

Yes, and less formal than surface swabbies.

> Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard is a sub base and they would come in afer being
> out for weeks and be a bit off - 'touched' perhaps? I don't know how to
> explain it, but there's a good reason they keep women off serving in
> submarines. They're nuts.

Well, I don't know that I want to be the the one to say that to a
former submariner, who posts to a naval and space history group I
read... :-)

> The maintenance we did in the units they lived in over in the enlisted
> housing - Admiralty Village in Kittery - they did the most damage -  there
> was an interservice housing arrangement and the other servicemen, the army,
> marines and air-force families were fine.

Hmm. Thats interesting. Might there be some kind of correlation between
such damages, and time spent away from home base ?

Andre

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