SCRAM

It breaks up the monotony of watch standing and field days. Except for the rate listed above and the Wardroom crowd.

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I believe he's an Electronics Lab Technician. It's a Nuke thing. He takes care of radiation monitoring values particularly our Film Badges. Has other duties also. The lab location on my boats was located next to sick bay or the YN's office.

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On our boat the lab was in Missel middle level by the Doc's and the engineering library. You could usually find the Lead Elt hanging out there doing something or another to keep him off the watch bill.

Walt,
Had I done everything right throughout my life, the World wouldn't have noticed.

I sit t. "Engineering". What did I know. My Weps Dept Library was the last office aft in MLMC Port side.

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Some of my best friends were ELT's (Eng. Lab Tech.) and they were all MM's. They had to go to a special school for ELT training (or specialized radio-chemistry training, as Flapper said). He was not on the usual watch bill with the rest of M Div., similar to the engineering log room yeoman, a position which I had the pleasure of occupying on my last patrol on the Edison. The ELT would come into the AMR2UL and sample water from the steam generators, I believe, once a day; but he could have come around when I wasn't on watch. He sampled other things elsewhere and I think he was responsible for monitoring CO2 levels, etc., and the air sniffers in Control. But, as I recall, he was mainly interested in water chemistry in the engineering spaces as well as radiation levels in water and air. Leaks of radioactive contamination would be a major hazard in a closed atmosphere and could be indicative of leaks from systems like the main coolant system, for example. And that was the last thing anybody wanted. He would collect our film badges and dosimeters occasionally and record our radiation exposure levels. I think he was involved in setting up a clean area and monitoring our radiation exposure or contamination when we entered/exited the reactor compartment, but I'm a bit fuzzy on the details. It has been over 50 years, since I actually stood an AMR2UL or RPCP watch, entered a reactor compartment or stepped foot on a submarine. Lot of water under the bridge since then.

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