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I did 11 years active duty on submarines and 9 years in the naval reserve. I will never knock the reserves or guard. I learned that active duty forces are often mentally boxed in and have difficulty thinking outside of established procedures. When I got to the reserves, I was continually...

A nuclear submarine is as close to the space program as you can get. All of our parts are inspected, packaged and quality controlled by the SUBSAFE system. We are absolutely not allowed to go to Ace Hardware for even the most mundane fasteners. That's why all of this is so strange to me.

My ROTC instructor told me that he carried a shotgun in Vietnam for that reason...he didn't tell me if he bought it with his own money. I guess he might have!

I guess. The concept is a little foreign to me because I served on nuclear submarines. You can't "hillbilly" a nuclear sub with stuff ordered from Amazon. We raided parts from decommissioned boats and once, even a museum but we never spent our own money on weapons or equipment. When I...

Jesus wept.

Early on in the movie "Generation Kill" it was mentioned that the members of the unit spent their own personal funds to upgrade their vehicles with potentially life saving equipment, such as bits of armor, paint, and spare parts. In my experience, it's not uncommon to raid DRMO or redlined...