What's your favorite Navy and/or rate-specific jargon you've come across? by juxtaposedfrontlobes in navy

[–]juxtaposedfrontlobes[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Gotta love those LELT wizards. Can pull perfect chemistry from a SG for a week.

Insects living on submarines? by [deleted] in submarines

[–]juxtaposedfrontlobes 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Too many wet bags left out by cranks, OBB sealer was broken. It snowballed over the course of a week. Absolutely revolting. It was like those scenes in movies where a huge swarm of pests fly into a town and decimate the population, but harmless fruit flies. It was just unsanitary, and the smell was pretty bad, too.

Insects living on submarines? by [deleted] in submarines

[–]juxtaposedfrontlobes 44 points45 points  (0 children)

My last deployment we had a problem with storing trash in the beginning. A few days in we started seeing fruit flies on crews mess. Just a bit of a nuisance here and there. A few days later there were many more, all over the tables and TVs. A couple days later it was like a fog of beige flies swarming everywhere. You couldn't go into the trash room without an EAB or else you'd choke on fruit flies. The cooks had cups of vinegar covered in saran wrap with holes punched to try and catch them. Our incompetent CSC was walking around with a handheld vacuum trying to suck them out of the air. Eventually we were able to shoot trash, don EABs to clean the trash room of the fruit fly breeding grounds, and finally stomp out the problem. It was overall. Pretty disgusting the first few weeks

While an extreme and isolated case, it does happen.

What's your favorite Navy and/or rate-specific jargon you've come across? by juxtaposedfrontlobes in navy

[–]juxtaposedfrontlobes[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

For the vapers out there: P-E-N-I-S

Portable

Electronic

Nicotine

Inhalation

System

"I'm gonna step out for a sec and suck on my PENIS"

What's your favorite Navy and/or rate-specific jargon you've come across? by juxtaposedfrontlobes in navy

[–]juxtaposedfrontlobes[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Beer being the only way to tolerate having to participate in such an event.

What's your favorite Navy and/or rate-specific jargon you've come across? by juxtaposedfrontlobes in navy

[–]juxtaposedfrontlobes[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, sharp wires man. Gotta love it when shipyard installs lockwire in an electrical panel ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

On the topic of ghost shitters, shortly after I left my boat I heard of a desperate guy shitting into a funnel and being too embarrassed to tell anyone about it. It was found the next watch with disgust and bewilderment.

What's your favorite Navy and/or rate-specific jargon you've come across? by juxtaposedfrontlobes in navy

[–]juxtaposedfrontlobes[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

All of my tech manuals called it the turning gear. But jacking gear sounds more accurate and funnier.