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    Posted: 16 Jun 2016 at 8:02am
On average, Virginia submarines have 90 to 120 day; worth of food stored onboard.
Or, put this way: One Virginia-class submarine will have 1,500 pounds of rib-eye rolled beef, 1,000 pounds of ground beef, 900 pounds of chicken breast, 300 pounds of bacon, 5,500 pounds of flour, 2,500 pounds of sugar and more than 1,000 pounds of coffee, which perpetually brews.
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That would be enough for Blue, but what would the rest of the crew eat?
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I had the opportunity to tour the California last week. They were serving steak and lobster tails for dinner. When I asked what the occasion was. I was told, "It's Friday".
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Originally posted by Trshannon674 Trshannon674 wrote:

I had the opportunity to tour the California last week. They were serving steak and lobster tails for dinner. When I asked what the occasion was. I was told, "It's Friday".

On Pargo under Steve White in the mid to late 1960s about once a quarter in port he would have a lunch of Clam Chouder and Lobster and invite the Wardroom Wives and girlfriends.  He and our resident hard-core bachelor would stay, the rest of us were sent off to the O Club for lunch and working on getting the XO to let us stay for the afternoon.

BTW, that was, of course, also the menu in the crew's mess that day because by definition we subsisted out of the General Mess unlike skimmers.


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Sounds good, but on an underway SSN what did you eat on day 89+?

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I have been told that little miscalculations like extended deployments were covered by stashed C-Rations in my time. Complete with cigarettes and toilet paper. However I will neither confirm nor deny having experienced this.  Big smile
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Extended in the Med during the 7 day war for about a week. Ran very short of sh*t paper. The messcooks had to take a lot of the terrycloth we used on the mess tables and cut them into 6" squares just in case. We were told we'd have to go to crews mess and requisition a quantity of one if needed. Luckily, the two week turned into only one week. Perhaps an emergency message was sent.
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Never went much beyond 65 days but the loadouts on the three fast attacks I was on were closer to the 120 days mark than the required 90.
Made it fun for the DOOW for the first 20 or so days.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote fortyrod Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Jun 2016 at 8:58am
Originally posted by atozdbf atozdbf wrote:

Sounds good, but on an underway SSN what did you eat on day 89+?

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We eat our way down to the deck plates. All the food stored in the After Batter Hatch and #8 torpedo tube was gone. The last three days we were sustained on fried cardboard, stewed cardboard, and boiled cardboard. 


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote SaltiDawg Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Jun 2016 at 9:42am
Originally posted by FTGC(SS) Lane FTGC(SS) Lane wrote:

Never went much beyond 65 days but the loadouts on the three fast attacks I was on were closer to the 120 days mark than the required 90.
Made it fun for the DOOW for the first 20 or so days.

First thing we did prior to load-out on the 637s was to convert the Chill Box to a Freeze Box. No sense in having a bunch of fresh food taking up reefer space only to be empty in two weeks.  Crammed both boxes to the gills.  Only fresh milk taken was in the milk machine the day we got underway... powdered from then on. Eggs stowed in the Diesel Room initially.


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