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Topic: SCRAM
Posted By: Flapper
Subject: SCRAM
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2019 at 7:47pm
Found this on USS Scamp FaceBook page. ------------- ET1ss Nuke; 1962 - 1973. SSN-588, CVA-63, SSBN-629 BLUE, SSN-669 PLANKOWNER, FICPAC |
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Posted By: Tom McNulty
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2019 at 8:21am
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It breaks up the monotony of watch standing and field days. Except for the rate listed above and the Wardroom crowd. ------------- SSBN599B,SSBN600B,SSBN611G USNR Beaumont, TX, USSVI Life Member Mid Atlantic Base Holland Club |
Posted By: Runner485
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2019 at 12:21pm
OK, what's an ELT. I guess he would be a maneuvering room watch. 
------------- DBF Joe SS485,CVA42 Holland Club Mid-Atlantic Base |
Posted By: Tom McNulty
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2019 at 1:21pm
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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. ------------- SSBN599B,SSBN600B,SSBN611G USNR Beaumont, TX, USSVI Life Member Mid Atlantic Base Holland Club |
Posted By: Kwn
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2019 at 2:29pm
| I think the correct name is Engineering Lab Technician. |
Posted By: Sewer Pipe Snipe
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2019 at 4:59pm
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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. |
Posted By: gcconnor1
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2019 at 5:05pm
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Engineering Lab Technician. In the 60’s the ELT’s stood MM Warches!!!!! ------------- GC Connor EMC(SS)/LT USN Ret USS Ethan Allen(7) Holland Club WA2STJ |
Posted By: Tom McNulty
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2019 at 5:14pm
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I sit t. "Engineering". What did I know. My Weps Dept Library was the last office aft in MLMC Port side. ------------- SSBN599B,SSBN600B,SSBN611G USNR Beaumont, TX, USSVI Life Member Mid Atlantic Base Holland Club |
Posted By: Flapper
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2019 at 6:40pm
Bingo! MM nukes generally filled that billet, after specialized radio-chemistry training. ------------- ET1ss Nuke; 1962 - 1973. SSN-588, CVA-63, SSBN-629 BLUE, SSN-669 PLANKOWNER, FICPAC |
Kwn wrote:Posted By: Dr. Stan
Date Posted: 14 Feb 2019 at 1:04pm
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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. ------------- It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.~Abe Lincoln SS-393, SSBN-610(B), SSBN-624(G), SSN-591 USSVI Life Member; Holland Club; Plank Owner, Smoky Mtn. Base |
Posted By: Bgurls
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2019 at 8:10am
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Geez. 1961, S1W. Westinghouse Chemists were doing all the primary and secondary plant chemistry monitoring, and civilian lab techs from Bettis were doing radiation surveys. They grabbed 8 of us (MM's and EN's) and Doc Rencher (Westinghouse) gave us a crash course on chemistry, contamination, and fishing for brown trout in the Madison up in Yellowstone. The ELT was born. Of course radiation and chemistry in that old teakettle was a horse of a different color. On the boat, a SCRAM meant an immediate full round of primary plant chemistry to check for possible damage. We also kept daily samples on the steam generators for chlorides, phosphates, and pH. Mixed up Silver Nitrate for LLER turbidity checks and got a lot of black spots as reward. As time went on, the tests all got more frequent and more stringent. I can remember the RPM (Reactor Plant Manual) being a single 4" thick volume. When I left the 619 in '74 it was already up to 6 volumes. If it didn't work right, write a procedure and fix the "root cause". As an aside, remember that new SSBN that lost her reduction gear when the watch shifted to an empty lube oil strainer? The NR fix was, of course, to put a sign over the Strainers "Ensure Strainer is filled before placing online" And of course that sign became invisible after about 4 LLER watches. ------------- SSR269,SS580(CO),SS582(XO),SSBN634,SSBN619,AS18(XO),SUBASE PH(XO),SUBSCHOOL(XO),SUBPAC(FLAG SEC),PERS42(DETAILER), CSS1(Chief Staff Officer)DAV(Life Member)VFW(Life Member) |