Not so SUBPAR
Together, we can make the submarine force a little less SUBPAR.
SUBPAR recently received a question from a dedicated member of the SUBPAR Nation: "Why don't you provide some encouragement to the fleet?" Well, we’re not in the business of providing motivation to sailors (if we did, what would the chiefs do?). We founded SUBPAR with the goal of giving submariners much needed moments of happiness during their day. Something that could force a grin on an EDO's face during their midnight tour, or something a mechanic could laugh at 14 hours into hydrolancing. Submarining is hard, submarining is a lot harder without humor.
While submarining is harder without humor, it would be pretty much impossible without good people. People are the best and worst part about the submarine force. In that vein, we’d like to share some stories about good (or bad) people who made the low oxygen and clogged drain strainers a little more tolerable. We’re not looking for stuff that belongs in a FITREP, just people helping out other people - like the time our ENG cut my hair in the JO head on 4 hours of sleep so I could meet the grooming requirements for liberty or any of the times (there were many) when WEPs took the heat for some JO shenanigans. We won’t print names to protect people from their XO- except in cases where the story is about an XO, in which case we will write a letter to the board the next time they are up for promotion.
We know there’s ENGDEP training in your oncoming so these don’t need to be long - just whatever you have time to write and feel comfortable sharing.
Email your submission to thesubpargroup@gmail.com
Don’t worry, we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week.