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Even the sub tender I was on had live weapons training. We were out to sea and had a whole bunch of us qualify with small arms for a reaction force team we were assigned.
I couldn't imagine trying to shoot clay pigeons off the back of a moving ship though!
Well with a machine gun however we went on a cruise when I was young before water slides and the modern cruising and skeet shooting was one of the adult pass times
Descriptions of the duties, responsibilities, and performance requirements of enlisted billets for use as a guide in selection, training, classification, and shipboard assignment of destroyer personnel.
Prepared by
BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL
With the Assistance of Commander Destroyers, Pacific Fleet
August 1945
Even the sub tender I was on had live weapons training. We were out to sea and had a whole bunch of us qualify with small arms for a reaction force team we were assigned.
I couldn't imagine trying to shoot clay pigeons off the back of a moving ship though!
What is a sub tender? Is that like a smaller submarine, and what is the reaction force team?
Descriptions of the duties, responsibilities, and performance requirements of enlisted billets for use as a guide in selection, training, classification, and shipboard assignment of destroyer personnel.
Prepared by
BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL
With the Assistance of Commander Destroyers, Pacific Fleet
August 1945
I imagine a lot of those jobs are no longer done by humans, and machines have cut down on those steps.
What is a sub tender? Is that like a smaller submarine, and what is the reaction force team?
It was the USS Hunley and is no longer in commission. Submarines would dock to the side of the ship for repairs and services, electric and water came from the ship.
Reaction force was just an emergency security detail. We never had emergencies or anything going on at all. During the first Gulf war we were one of the very few ships still in Norfolk lol.
I imagine a lot of those jobs are no longer done by humans, and machines have cut down on those steps.
Yeah, the jobs have changed, I don't know the current manning levels. But a warships needs people to fight and to keep it afloat, so there's a certain minimum, which would vary by ship and mission.
The gas turbine ships are a lot simpler to man than the steam plant ships. I was a "pit snipe" most of my at sea time, meaning I worked in the engine room (or "main space" when we share deck plate with the boilers) and we had eight people on watch at any one time, IIRC, during at-sea steaming. They tried to automate those tasks, with the usual fiasco. Litton Industries built LHAs 1, 3, and 5. The automation on LHA-1 proved a failure, so they were retrofitting conventional controls on her while installing the automation on LHA-3. Again, it failed and they were retrofitting -3 while installing it on -5, and so on.
It was the USS Hunley and is no longer in commission. Submarines would dock to the side of the ship for repairs and services, electric and water came from the ship.
Reaction force was just an emergency security detail. We never had emergencies or anything going on at all. During the first Gulf war we were one of the very few ships still in Norfolk lol.
No we weren't anything special like that. It was just an emergency team established for duty sections in case of emergency that required guns drawn. There was never a need nor actual emergency the 3 years I was there.
This depends on the ship, anti boarding party training on "small boys" can get very detailed and is very much like swat team training. The reason is these ships are low on the water, so they are easy to board from small watercraft. Due to the small number of sailors on board, if the ship is boarded, it is very likely that they will not be discovered immediately. This means that intruders could be hidden all over the ship. In this type of scenario the anti boarding party will be called. Fully armed with M-4 rifles, they have the task of taking the ship back, compartment by compartment if necessary. I volunteered for this duty when I was on the Enterprise, it was allot of fun. We also may have or may not have had a SeAL team deployed with us that sometimes would play the "bad guys" and try to steal the ship.
Due to terrorist tactics, armed watches are serious business on Naval vessels.
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