![]() There was only one Corpsman, obviously a senior Corpsman with considerable independent duty experience. If something like an emergency surgery of some kind was necessary, the Captain’s mess table becomes the operating theater. The sickbay was a closet shared with another purpose. Photo: YouTube/Defense Flash NewsĪs a former Hospital Corpsman, I was interested to see what the sickbay looked like and how many Corpsmen were on board. It was incredibly tight, with confined spaces, but, again, engineered for efficiency, speed, and silence and armed with very powerful offensive weapons. I have been aboard a smaller, older, Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine before. It is truly a very complex, integrated engineering marvel with a destructive power that we can only hope will never have to be used. Your tour will take you through the various units on the boat, from the drivers of the boat to the mess deck and crew, the sleeping quarters to the torpedo and missile control rooms. ![]() You will get a sense of their size and their technological complexity here as well and then realize that it is all being operated, driven, and controlled by young sailors in their 20s and 30s, each one trained to the highest levels, chosen for their maturity and their ability to handle the stresses and strains that go with the management of one of the world’s most powerful individual weapon systems. These boats are the biggest, baddest, most technologically complex, and advanced machines in the Navy’s command. ![]() ![]() The U-boats and submarines of WWII are primitive in comparison to the Ohio-class submarine that you are going to get a virtual tour of here. Maybe you’ve seen some movies, oldies or more modern ones, like Das Boot or The Hunt for Red October, that deal with the weapon system called the submarine, but have you ever been onboard one of these menacing machines before? Most would have to say no, and what most of us know or think we know about submarines is from those always-intense movies about them. ![]()
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