Food on a SSN
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Topic: Food on a SSN
Posted By: Rontini
Subject: Food on a SSN
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2016 at 8:02am
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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. ------------- Every increase in government authority is a decrease of the liberty of each citizen. |
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Posted By: Sewer Pipe Snipe
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2016 at 9:59am
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That would be enough for Blue, but what would the rest of the crew eat?
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2016 at 12:55pm
| 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". |
Posted By: SaltiDawg
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2016 at 1:37pm
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. |
Trshannon674 wrote:Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2016 at 2:02pm
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Sounds good, but on an underway SSN what did you eat on day 89+? AtoZ |
Posted By: Sewer Pipe Snipe
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2016 at 7:54am
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. 
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Posted By: Tom McNulty
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2016 at 8:30am
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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. ------------- SSBN599B,SSBN600B,SSBN611G USNR Beaumont, TX, USSVI Life Member Mid Atlantic Base Holland Club |
Posted By: FTGC(SS) Lane
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2016 at 8:38am
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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. |
Posted By: fortyrod
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2016 at 8:58am
I think that those stories of extended periods underway on spec ops by diesel boats are an embellishment. They sound good, but are they really true? Sea Stories, who can tell the best one? NTINS, My longest period underway on Volador SS490 was 37 days, and Parche SSN 683, 49 days. 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. ------------- Everything is relative |
Posted By: SaltiDawg
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2016 at 9:42am
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. |
Posted By: GaryKC
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2016 at 10:41am
Way back during the great cold war, on Odax we'd travel from Key West to Europe and use dinks as bait to catch creatures big and scary  ------------- SS484 SS426 SSBN618 Joined this BBS: May 25 2007 Website http://www.usstusk.com" rel="nofollow - USS Tusk SS 426 |
Posted By: JrKrup, Skimmer
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2016 at 10:38pm
Back during our 1967 WESTPAC deployment we ran very low on toilet paper. I asked the chief to give me "extra military instruction"  and have the cook tell me to clean out the walk-in chill box. In those days, possibly still, apples were packed in corrugated boxes but they were individually wrapped in squares of soft blue paper. Knowing this, I carefully unwrapped all the apples, ... and because it was supposed to be punishment, I cleaned the rest of the chill box. Enroute to the fantail to dump all the trash, one box of blue paper went to the radio shack, and the radiomen had toilet paper when the rest of the crew worried. And who said radiomen are dummies? ------------- Jon Krup, Skimmer - Minesweeps |
Posted By: Sewer Pipe Snipe
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 1:24am
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I think that would have been John Bay!
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