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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon There was a cartoon a few years back which demonstrated the difference between shoes and airdale mentality. The first frame showed a watch turnover between two surface guys...going over every detail ad nauseum. The second frame was a watch turnover between two aviators...it was "Oh, sorry, I'm in your seat."[/quote] In submarines, a common watch turnover was "Air in the banks, water in the tanks, boat's afloat, I had it, you got it." When I was in my last ship, I was going through the Control Room when the Chief of the Watch asked me to relieve him so he could go to the head (toilet). I sat down in the chair, having received a quite sketchy turnover (both of us expected him to be gone less than 5 minutes). Almost as soon as he left, there was a problem with the nuclear reactor which required it to be shut down. So we went up to the surface to snorkel (use the emergency diesel to provide power) in a North Atlantic winter storm. We stayed there for three hours and the Officer of the Deck would not allow me to be relieved for the entire time. I was not so willing to give head reliefs after that, and I insisted on a full turnover if I did.
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