DC>> But, I think my favorite character is the guy that plays the
 DC>> boat's electrician!

 CS>> Radioman actually.

 DC> Is that the same as "electrician"?  I recall a scene early in
 DC> the movie where the character first starts shorting himself
 DC> out getting the boat into workable condition.  And, I died
 DC> every time Kelsey would ask him to port the feed to a
 DC> different system.  "Bring it up on the overhead..."

Recently I took a tour of a WW2-era submarine. (USS Clamagore) currently on
display in Charleston Harbor.

According to the tour, and the service manuals I have since found on the net,
I would highly suspect that radioman and electrician are two vastly different
occupations.

I can also tell you that in the 70's, when I was in the service (Army, but
serving on a Navy base)  The rates were different, Rm and Em respectively..

So my semieducated guess would be that while there are points where the two
converge, most often they jobs differ.

Particularly as the subs operated on battery power or electricity generated
from the diesels (of that era) and that's fr mor voltage than is requires to
keep the radio tubes warm...



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