Welcome to the first edition of The Way I.C. It, a series of point-counterpoint style articles that will discuss a variety of topical submarine debates, all presented IAW The Doctrine for Submarine Interior Communications. Our first topic: where to do a food run tonight?
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Duty Officer, Duty Chief: Recommend food run. All I’ve had to eat today is four Monsters and a cigarette.
Duty Chief, Duty Officer: Aye, report if we have enough duty section personnel for force protection manning if we do a food run.
Duty Officer, Duty Chief: (pretending to check the watchbill) ... uh yes sir looks like we have one seven sailors on duty today. Request to send SN Murray to Chipotle.
Duty Chief, Duty Officer: No. My last three food runs have all been Chipotle. I intend to send ETVSN to Wingstop.
Duty Officer, Duty Chief: Wingstop, aye. Request if you want fife or one zero wings?
Duty Chief, Duty Officer: Five lemon pepper, five honey bravo bravo quebec. I’ll ask the EDO-
Duty Officer, Duty Chief: Spoken Engineering Duty Officer.
Duty Chief, Duty Officer: -I’ll ask the Engineering Duty Officer what the aft section wants.
Engineering Duty Officer, Duty Officer: Report if you are done with evolutions yet. We’re about to send the guys for a food run.
Duty Officer, Engineering Duty Officer: No, we’ll be working right up until twenty hundred tonight.
Engineering Duty Officer, Duty Officer: Aye, we’ll leave the nukes’ stuff on a table in Crew’s Mess. Hopefully no one takes it. If you need me, I’ll be in the rack.
Subpar, Subhuman, Is TDU the acronym for tedious, dull, unimaginative?