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re: Vets and active duty during the National Anthem
Posted on 10/12/16 at 10:41 am to terd ferguson
Posted on 10/12/16 at 10:41 am to terd ferguson
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Nuke as in the nerds that run the reactor.
only like 75% of us are nerds dammit
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Posted on 10/12/16 at 10:41 am to Broke
I usually salute the flag, with the hand touching the brim of my Olive Drab Green tactical hat with a Gadsden flag on it.
I'm also usually rocking my newest Grunt Style T-Shirt.
I'm also usually rocking my newest Grunt Style T-Shirt.
Posted on 10/12/16 at 10:44 am to Theboot32
What boat(s)?
Did you guys put porn behind all the label plates in maneuvering? We were in port once and I went back to maneuvering late at night for something. I was amazed when one of the nukes took out a screwdriver and started pulling off the label plates.
Did you guys put porn behind all the label plates in maneuvering? We were in port once and I went back to maneuvering late at night for something. I was amazed when one of the nukes took out a screwdriver and started pulling off the label plates.
Posted on 10/12/16 at 10:46 am to Mear
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I'm also usually rocking my newest Grunt Style T-Shirt.
You in the monthly club, brah?
Posted on 10/12/16 at 10:47 am to terd ferguson
i was surface...
but yes, there was a treasure behind every label plate in switchgear (maneuvering for electricians)
but yes, there was a treasure behind every label plate in switchgear (maneuvering for electricians)
Posted on 10/12/16 at 10:47 am to Theboot32
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i was surface...
ew
Posted on 10/12/16 at 10:47 am to terd ferguson
I stand at attention and face the colors...the way I was taught in basic training a LONG time ago...
if asked to render a hand salute I will, but otherwise...
if asked to render a hand salute I will, but otherwise...
Posted on 10/12/16 at 10:48 am to terd ferguson
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Nuke as in the nerds that run the reactor.
Ah, so your job wasn't involved in nuke related things.
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ETA - all subs are nuclear powered now and all of them have the capability to carry nuclear warheads.
That's what I thought. Sounded odd.
I just looked up non nuke powered US subs and it appears the last one was decommissioned in 1990. I had no idea they were in the fleet for that long. Some European countries still use diesel, right?
Posted on 10/12/16 at 11:01 am to Broke
My parents and my wife and I are all vets.
None of us salute out of uniform. Just doesn't feel right, tbqh. Plus it's a little attention-whorish. Not the best look, IMO.
None of us salute out of uniform. Just doesn't feel right, tbqh. Plus it's a little attention-whorish. Not the best look, IMO.
This post was edited on 10/12/16 at 11:02 am
Posted on 10/12/16 at 11:02 am to upgrayedd
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I just looked up non nuke powered US subs and it appears the last one was decommissioned in 1990
I think the triple nickle was still around in the early 2000's... SS-555.
It was a research sub. I remember it caught fire and they ended up decommissioning it.
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Some European countries still use diesel, right?
A lot of countries still use diesel boats. Germany has some that use hydrogen fuel cells.
This post was edited on 10/12/16 at 11:06 am
Posted on 10/12/16 at 11:06 am to upgrayedd
Had a student work for me at LSU (he was on GI bill) that was a non nuke on boomers. His job was to maintain “the bomb”..... no not the warheads but the hydrogen oxygen separator, the thing that makes O2 to breathe. Since it generated both H and O – they had a habitat of blowing up back in the day.
I always hired ex military as student workers, they were generally bright, were not 18 and had settled down a bit.
I always hired ex military as student workers, they were generally bright, were not 18 and had settled down a bit.
Posted on 10/12/16 at 11:09 am to vl100butch
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I stand at attention and face the colors...the way I was taught in basic training a LONG time ago... if asked to render a hand salute I will, but otherwise...
This.
And we were in about the same time old man. Posted on 10/12/16 at 11:09 am to OntarioTiger
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His job was to maintain “the bomb”..... no not the warheads but the hydrogen oxygen separator, the thing that makes O2 to breathe. Since it generated both H and O – they had a habitat of blowing up back in the day.
That's what I did. Part of my job was operating/maintaining atmosphere control equipment... including the bomb. That was actually my baby at one point because nobody else knew how to fricking work on the thing.
Posted on 10/12/16 at 11:12 am to terd ferguson
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Germany has some that use hydrogen fuel cells.
So they just draw in sea water to make their own hydrogen?
Posted on 10/12/16 at 11:16 am to upgrayedd
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So they just draw in sea water to make their own hydrogen?
Not sure exactly. That machine that we were just talking about, the bomb, is an Electrolytic Oxygen Generator. It uses electric current to separate demineralized water into H and O2. Our subs keep the oxygen for breathing and pump the hydrogen overboard as a waste product. I imagine you could save the hydrogen from that process and use it for propulsion.
Looked it up:
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Siemens has developed a 30-50 kilowatt fuel cell unit. Nine of these units are incorporated into Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft AG's 1,830t submarine U31, lead ship for the Type 212A class of the German Navy. The other boats of this class and HDW's AIP equipped export submarines (Dolphin class submarine, Type 209 mod and Type 214) use two 120 kW modules, also from Siemens.[9]
After the success of Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft AG's in its export activities, several builders developed fuel-cell auxiliary units for submarines, but as of 2008 no other shipyard has a contract for a submarine so equipped.
The AIP implemented on the S-80 class of the Spanish Navy is based on a bioethanol-processor (provided by Hynergreen from Abengoa, SA) consisting of a reaction chamber and several intermediate Coprox reactors, that transform the BioEtOH into high purity hydrogen. The output feeds a series of fuel cells from UTC Power company (which also supplied fuel cells for the Space Shuttle).
The reformator is fed with bioethanol as fuel, and oxygen (stored as a liquid in a high pressure cryogenic tank), generating hydrogen as a sub-product. The produced hydrogen and more oxygen is fed to the fuel cells.
This post was edited on 10/12/16 at 11:20 am
Posted on 10/12/16 at 11:40 am to terd ferguson
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Not sure exactly. That machine that we were just talking about, the bomb, is an Electrolytic Oxygen Generator. It uses electric current to separate demineralized water into H and O2. Our subs keep the oxygen for breathing and pump the hydrogen overboard as a waste product. I imagine you could save the hydrogen from that process and use it for propulsion.
That would seem like a logical process.
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The AIP implemented on the S-80 class of the Spanish Navy is based on a bioethanol-processor (provided by Hynergreen from Abengoa, SA) consisting of a reaction chamber and several intermediate Coprox reactors, that transform the BioEtOH into high purity hydrogen. The output feeds a series of fuel cells from UTC Power company (which also supplied fuel cells for the Space Shuttle).
Ah, so it still needs a non renewable fuel sources.
This post was edited on 10/12/16 at 11:51 am
Posted on 10/12/16 at 11:44 am to upgrayedd
Yeah it looks like all of them use biofuel to produce the hydrogen.
Posted on 10/12/16 at 11:47 am to Theboot32
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Nuke as in the nerds that run the reactor.
One of my buddies was a nuke. He was in for 10 years, became a Senior Chief, put himself through college while still in the Navy then GTFO'd
He now works at a nuke plant outside Phoenix making $250K/year
I'm "Nuke Waste" as are a few other OT submariners
Failed the RP final by 2 damn points in Power School. At the time there were no academic rollbacks so I was processed out of Nuke School and sent to ET "C" school in Groton where I became a radioman.
This post was edited on 10/12/16 at 11:50 am
Posted on 10/12/16 at 11:49 am to terd ferguson
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Yeah it looks like all of them use biofuel to produce the hydrogen.
I guess the purity of the H is the issue.
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