Re: Tall people in subs Re: List of Veterans on the List (was Re: Veterans (was Veterans Bushwhacked))
Julia Thompson wrote: When did the Navy start instituting height restrictions in subs? (Doug?) I don't really know. I know we had a few guys that were close to 6' - hell we had an A-gang* that looked like an O-line with names like Sarge, Swazie and Mongo (who was jumped in New London one night by two guys with knives and came away with a cut on his arm and a piece of one of the guys ear). In any case, it wasn't something I had to worry about. I know they had them in the 1980s, one of Dan's friends from high school who was fairly tall joined the Navy and was not allowed to serve on a sub because he was fairly tall. Maybe there was a 6' regulation, the overheads are pretty low - many pipes, conduits and the like throughout the boat so a tall guy would have to spend a lot of time hunched over. We had an XO who was slightly cross-eyed and ran into the pipes so often that at some point he was awarded a football helmet. He was aptly nicknamed Ricochet Rabbit... -- Doug GSV Back on the Ustafish *Axilliary Machinery - they took care of the diesel, hydraulic and compressed air systems as well as the atmosphere control equipment, among other things. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Tall people in subs Re: List of Veterans on the List (was Re: Veterans (was Veterans Bushwhacked))
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Kevin Tarr wrote: > > >Bad luck! 8^(. Do you know what boat your Uncle was on? > > > >I count the military as an excellent experience though I was ready to get > >back to the "real world" when my time was up. > >-- > >Doug > > My mother might know the sub names. He retired from the navy before I > was born, with 20 or 25 years. He passed away 15 years ago from cancer. > > There was a group of them from my little town that all served together > down at newport news VA. The one still living was an airplane mechanic. > He only went into a sub once at the dock and hated it; but one time he > took my uncle for a plane ride down to Florida and back, and my uncle > swore he'd never fly again and he never did. > > Another weird thing, my uncle was at least 6'2", if not taller. I'm sure > that was big for those subs during WWII and even later. Dan's uncle who served on a sub during WWII is pretty tall, at least 6'. (Dan's about 6' (more like 5' 11.5") and he's the shortest guy in that family.) When did the Navy start instituting height restrictions in subs? (Doug?) I know they had them in the 1980s, one of Dan's friends from high school who was fairly tall joined the Navy and was not allowed to serve on a sub because he was fairly tall. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
