USN Carrier Deployments

[Sferrin]

The big thing to make them stick well is prep work on the surface.

This. And keep that surface protected between prep and application. (Don't ask me how I know. It was a traumatic experience.)

 

[Scott Kenny]

What about painting the interior of an SSN or SSBN, Scott? I remember watching on TV in the early 90s an 80s film where an SSBN is repainted inside shortly before going on patrol and the whole crew ends up going crazy because of an additive in the paint (It tended to make one a bit psycho after inhaling the fumes).​

You're not supposed to paint while underway. At all.

Doesn't stop people from doing it, but the Central Atmosphere Monitoring System tells on them.

I was in back in the days of polished shoes and boots, and even the number of cans of polish and edge dressing were limited. Not supposed to have bleach onboard, either.

 

[NMaude]

Not supposed to have bleach onboard, either.

Not even in the sickbay as an anti-septic?

 

[Scott Kenny]

Not even in the sickbay as anti-septic?

no. The usual antiseptic was wiskodine(sp?), an iodine-based stuff.

 

[Foo Fighter]

Iodine tended to be the order of the day back in the late 80's to 90's here, less common now even in hospitals.

Mind you, a LOT of the stuff we used then is now banned as carcinogenic.

Just checked with a pals who state they never completely stopped using iodine after I ceased operations, they just reduced it and are now ramping use up again. They will be going back to thiopentone and Halothane at this rate.

NB, Halothane:- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK548151/

 

[Scott Kenny]

Not even in the sickbay as anti-septic?

The only amount of bleach onboard was the "aggressive chart correction fluid", and was maybe a gallon in total. And even that was not supposed to be there.

 

[TomS]

The new environmentally-friendly paint doesn't stick as well as the old stuff. Nor does it prevent rust as well.

So, most of the crud near the waterline turns out to be algae and such, not rust. They had contractors come in and power wash the hull during the shore leave and she looks much better now. The paint on the hull actually seems to have held up. There's still some superficial running rust higher up, but that's typical.



https://maritime-executive.com/arti...r-r-r-carrier-uss-abraham-lincoln-is-underway

 

[Hood]

Just some photos of USS George Washington's crew during their deployment.
A lot of food images, makes you wonder if in reality it's a floating tuck shop?

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...eorge-washington-strait-of-hormuz-in-pictures

 

[Scott Kenny]

Just some photos of USS George Washington's crew during their deployment.
A lot of food images, makes you wonder if in reality it's a floating tuck shop?

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...eorge-washington-strait-of-hormuz-in-pictures

Good food is how you keep a very busy crew whatever passes for "sane" on a deployment.

And believe me when I tell you that the definition of sanity is very loose on a deployment.

 

[Hydroman]

The CVN crews now seem have greater choices especially regarding beverages but when I was on CVN-65, I think we had better food and food choices in the 80's from some of the videos I have seen. We did do some long stints in the IO but we did had reasonable UNREP intervals also. When they broke out the sterilized milk, veal and chicken patties and the salad was gone, we knew it was time for an UNREP. For beverages, all we had was milk (regular and chocolate), coffee, tea, water and Bug Juice (basically Kool-Aid). If you wanted a soda, you had to bring your own. They also have Starbucks, we did not have that for sure.