A Modern Battleship Starts at the Head

[@Masada1911]

If you think of a ship primarily as a place where people have to live, it is fair to say that having decent sanitary facilities is absolutely crucial.

[@leftyo9589]

it is really miserable when they dont work.

[@maxcaysey2844]

Indeed... I've never understood the troth idea! It seems extremely degrading to the crew!

[@cf453]

“trough”

[@MentLeee]

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[@MentLeee]

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[@Mrcaffinebean]

It speaks highly of the Captain that he was detail oriented enough to think about this important possible problem. Definitely a smart guy!

[@rp1645]

YES that the Captain thought used his wife's explaining the cleaning household duties. So important. What a guy to be stationed with. He thought about the cleaning of a capital Ship as important as Fighting. A great Commander.

[@thomasbrower305]

Anybody who ever served in the Navy on a ship as an E-3 or below will remember that their first year was spent cleaning things. Toilets, showers, passageways, berthing compartment, etc. And when they weren't cleaning, they were painting.

[@casey6556]

“How did this become my life?” Ryan once again being relatable as hell LOL I went from barely knowing what a battleship was to sleeping overnight on New Jersey and making plans to visit the others in just over a year thanks to quarantine and the KZbin channel coming up in my recommendations. And now I get excited for pedantic videos about toilets 😆 Keep up the great work!

[@iainkeddie1]

That’s obviously what the playlist should be called. Ryan talks about toilets. Ryan crawls through 16” bore…etc.

[@casey6556]

@@iainkeddie1 I feel like you have to work up to those You start with the more “ordinary” videos from early in the channel history and build up to the more and more esoteric and bizarre (like, for instance, crawling through a gun barrel or sitting in a boiler or spending 20 minutes on exact types of chairs).

[@cf453]

Don’t underrate knowing your shit. ;)

[@APV878]

Having worked in museums as education staff / tourguide, one of the most frequently asked questions, no surprise, is "where are the bathrooms?", usually the second the visitor(s) enter the museum, especially for the first time. Just part of the job. ;D. There was once a museum dedicated to plumbing, sanitation and toilets in central Massachusetts.

[@alexkrilow]

I am a film editor and I totally relate to Ryan's question. Which, I must say, made me laugh out loud for real.

[@Paraffinmeister]

Not going to lie, that moment of clarity "how did this become my life!?" was beautiful. Keep up the good work though, this is genuinely one of my favourite youtube channels and an absolute goldmine of information.

[@richardchisholm2073]

I toured the North Carolina a few years back. Since she is still in WW II configuration, all of the original fixtures of the era are still installed for the viewer's pleasure. Interesting that the captain had the forethought to consider refitting the heads. Then again, he may have had other good officers who presented the suggestion to him, and he fought the fight to get it done.

[@golf-n-guns]

I think the "toilet trough" would have been the hardest part of serving. Again, respect to all the men that served! (p.s. Bar Keepers Friend is great on s/s)

[@davemayberry9938]

I helped redesign the plumbing on the New Jersey and Missouri.... (shop 300, LBNSY)....We utilized the existing plumbing, and I did the re-routing to the holding tanks...Even in the 1980’s, the plumbing had to be re-designed. The captain’s commode was prone to overflowing, and I re-designed a larger piping system, which made a bit of a noticeable suction when flushed.😆

[@lexington476]

Welcome to Ryan's Battleship Plumbing series 🙂.

[@RyderBeckett1903]

I love stuff like this- it gives the ship more "Life" in people's mind more than the standard stuff about the armaments and fighting capabilities of the ships. Yes, she's designed to be a fighting ship but people actually live onboard for at least months at a time and learning about it is always a good time!

[@jeffreycler495]

The hardest issue was lack of privacy. It started with me at US Navy boot camp . Poop time was better in the early morning hours more commodes and privacy.

[@Kevin-go2dw]

It is a fact of life, that even if they are not talked about, everyone uses a toilet one way or another. I spent 20 years at a sewerage pumping station (decommissioned in 1965) explaining its importance and how it operated. Visitors were always excited when they could go to a building and see the sewerage flow deep below.

[@cf453]

My dad is a civil engineer specializing in wastewater-I’ve been on vacations to treatment plants. It’s an extremely cool subject. :D

[@bobbbobb1624]

I’ve always found it funny when you watch/read survival and SHTF that few make detailed plans for long term sanitation.

[@UnitSe7en]

Yeah, there's mystery in those dark pipes that come from somewhere and go to a place. Of course people like it.

[@dalehood1846]

I'll bet I know where it goes, guess. THE POOP DECK! AAARRRRGGHHHH! 😆😆😆😅😅😅😅😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭

[@geneziemba9159]

It’s entirely appropriate to discuss this topic. Like eating it’s a natural function that everyone relates with daily. Astronauts are always asked about it.

[@cf453]

If you’ve never read Packing For Mars by Mary Roach, you definitely should. It’s a fantastic look at human factors, and Mary ain’t shy.

[@bluntmuffin1729]

Took a trip last weekend from Michigan with my brother to see you guys. Absolutely fascinating vacation. It’s super interesting having actually been on the ship now I can much more easily place where things you talk about are. Makes every video even better. For those who haven’t visited yet I can’t suggest it enough. Watching the veterans ceremony, the guns fire, getting the after hours tour, and even seeing these exact toilets in person is a memory I’ll have forever. Thanks guys.

[@chrisjeffries2322]

I was aboard USS Chicago CG11 from 1969 to 73. When she was over-hauled and reconfigured for recommissioned in 1964 she had porcelain sinks and toilets.

[@stevenedington6265]

Talking about toilets and wast disposal. I was on a Gearing class destroyer. It also did not have holding tanks and discharge it’s wast directly overboard. Even though flapper valves were used in the wast lines. In rough seas they did not close nearly fast enough. If you used the foreword head in rough seas you were going receive the contents of the bowl along with a good helping of sea water up your backside. You then find the toilet paper very wet and dripping off the roles.

[@alanmackechnie5728]

One reason for steel fittings was that ceramic ones would shatter when the main gunes were fired. When HMS Barham's main gunes were test fired it was recorded a success as 'only nine earthenware fittings in the ship's lavatories were broken' Also, when HMS Nelson triggered a mine, several sailors using the heads at the time were injured failing back onto the shattered pans (ouch!))

[@leftyo9589]

you will never understand how important the CHT tank is until it backs up into a space!

[@kevincrosby1760]

"Now muster all Extra Duty Personnel in the After CHT Pumproom"

[@pepperman2385]

I appreciate all of the videos Battleship New Jersey is putting out, I gotten to learn things about the ship that I never knew I wanted to know! With all of the recent travel to other historic ships recently, I was wondering if Ryan could shed some light on one in his own back yard, USS Ling. The Ling museum was closed, the sub abandoned, and flooded by looters/explorers. I haven't been able to find out much after that, other than a group is trying to save her, just not sure how or how far along they are.

[@alancranford3398]

In 1961 (estimated, I wasn't able to read) my father took me along when he toured the Maginot Line and some of the Great War battlefields. One thing that stood out was the plumbing in the forts. In May 2022 I toured the Battleship Alabama and made it a point to look at the heads. BB-60 had trough-style commodes--but they were not working. Bathrooms are a point of interest and will stick out in memory because bathroom styles change.

[@EnigmaticPenguin]

I'm curious if you've ever found any bootlegging equipment on the ship or heard of any history of it in the USN. My grandfather served on the HMCS Bonaventure and Magnificient carriers (RCN) post-war as a flight mechanic and has said that it wasn't uncommon for distilleries to crop up in machine shops and provide unsanctioned booze to the crew.

[@adamdubin1276]

Suggestion for the cleaning of stainless steel fittings on the ship: use Barkeeper's Friend, trust me the fittings will be sparkling like new with just a little bit of scrubbing.

[@bobbenson6825]

Seconded! Barkeeper's Friend is amazing. Also Ryan is a mensch. I hope the museum gets enough donations they can give him a raise.

[@kevincrosby1760]

Between the kitchen sink and the stainless cookware, the BF has a reserved spot on the kitchen counter next to the sink.

[@seldoon_nemar]

I was thinking grey scotchbrite at this point. that will scrub it back to new. if not, there's always red and brown lol. brown will actually make stainless powder while you use it, so it will scrub discoloration out even

[@JoshuaTootell]

Sounds wonderful, until you have to scrub 10,000 different stainless items, and the first one cleaned is already dirty by the time you get to item #4582

[@josephkanowitz6875]

ב''ה, BKF will polish and remove some corrosion. Gel-Gloss will polish and then leave a lasting wax layer. If the material is clean or chrome finish and doesn't need polish, probably automotive wax alone may work as a protectant. Classic vehicle detailers might have more to say.

[@duenge]

I worked with a man who spent time on an LST. When the Marines came back on board after 3 weeks on an island, they were all bound up from their MRE's, and proceeded to clog every toilet in the head.... My friend and his crew were told to hook the fire hose to the system, and pressurize the waste line, blowing it all back up into the head, where the Marines were told to "Clean this shit up!"

[@Hail_The_Fish]

+1 for a toilets playlist. I love hearing about mundane details of life like the different models of chairs and toilets and doors and so forth.

[@Sundancer268]

The first ship I ever was stationed on was the USS Talladaga APA-208 Moored to Pier #7 Long Beach Naval Station in 1968. Was sent out for a two week reserve cruise. The ship had the trough toilet system, though the seats did have dividers and doors. Us newbs were rapidly indoctrinated to why the first stall door was never available and there was a real sailor cleaning the head. As soon as a newb sat down, the head cleaner would crawl under the door of the first stall and get a huge wad of paper and set it on fire and let it float down the trough and singe the rear of what ever newb happened to be trying to do his business. Another fact of daily life was using a Fire Hose to wash off the nights business that had accumulated on the camels between the ship and pier, Surprising how much waste would be there and was just flushed into the harbor.

[@JackBWatkins]

Ryan, you are flush with knowledge.

[@danielkeel9265]

"How did this become my life?" We have a saying in Australia, which states that "it's only the depth that varies"!

[@dutchman7216]

Thankyou Ryan for your work.

[@GABABQ2756]

Welcome to my old world of Hull Technician. The constant flow of salt water through urinals combined with urine created a build up in the monel pipes. Let’s just say adding heat to the joint was odiferous at best. Also, when TP was in short supply sailors would get creative with wiping material, clogging the commodes. We finally procured a Rigid drain auger to clean out lines.

[@UnitSe7en]

Well, they say crystals have healing powers. I don't know what the problem was.

[@kanrakucheese]

A lot of videos have mentioned as an aside that the ship was a small town when in service, but there hasn't been a dedicated video on that. I would suggest doing it next October, with a note that the current population of the ship relative to the peak qualifies her as a "ghost town".

[@stephendavies923]

Ryan and crew. I know this may sound crass, and yes, a playlist of all of the toilet waste issues that you could cover will most likely be popular, never forget there are a lot of people out there who are both interested in, and also talk s**t. A world famous comedian once said that the best global joke involved passing wind in an elevator.

[@Lazarus7000]

Literally the oldest complete, understood joke, from ancient Babylon, is "Something that never happened in all of recorded history: a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap".

[@akdonlh9924]

Thank you Veterans

[@TribleNerd]

So I live on a destroyer today, and we have steel sinks. I wish my skipper had the power to change them. It takes a long time to clean them.

[@anthonywhisenant3597]

I'm right there with you! I'm on the Uss Preble DDG-88 and it's a pain when it comes to berthing cleaners!

[@jaquigreenlees]

After 20 years in commercial kitchens I know the horror of cleaning stainless steel.

[@thedopplereffect00]

Wow, this question was asked in a comment on the last video and Ryan answered it in this one. What great timing

[@cf453]

Oh shaddap Ryan, this is real history, and it’s great! Capt Snyder sounds like a heck of a guy, and I’m definitely going to look him up.

[@kennethbolton951]

My Dad described that on the troop ship he was on going around the tip of Africa to the Suez to fight in B25s that they had the troughs system that you didn't want to be on the side seats when the ship was rolling as you could literally be lifted out of your seat with a super douche. Wonderful eh, the things fighting men had to endure were multiple.

[@rp1645]

Thank you for talking about this basic very important area on Capital ships that is so important. The new Sailor complaining about cleaning the "HEAD" saw that on a TV show with a Sailor just bitching about how he came on a ship to do different stuff. He thought it was beneath him to keep head clean. He never got it, that that his ship mate could be sick from his half ass cleaning. I was on an open house tour of a modern Cruiser, one of the outside bulkhead toilets was all plugged up. Tape across it. The ship never just closed the Hatch. Put out of service on the door. I thought the Captain was asleep at the wheel for not having a Chief address. For an open house. WOW what a Let down on Ship Shape for aboard tours.

[@NoahKuzel]

They talked about the head in its ww2 configuration when Ryan toured the USS Kidd a destroyer.

[@Angrymuscles]

Tell us all about Navy and Battleship toilet paper. The most important and powerful war fighting material ever devised.

[@kevincrosby1760]

We called it John Wayne Paper. It was rough, it was tough, and it didn't take S**T off of nobody. It was also single-ply and WELL perforated. One generally ended up with a handful of individual little squares.

[@colinprice712]

But apparently not we’ll known - see USS Skipjack WW2…

[@barto6577]

A corn cob would be softer,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and clean better.

[@KirtFitzpatrick]

Honestly curious how this channel fits into your museum program now. How has it changed things? A thousand videos in two years is a lot.

[@markackermann673]

As a former shipfitter on a ww2 era ship, salt water flushing was a nightmare to maintain corrosion and build up in the piping was a dog to tend to.

[@jth877]

I see that Texas has a drydock tour available while the ship is being worked on. When NJ goes into drydock is it possible to do the same? Good way to gain some additional funding.

[@st4rd3str0y3r]

Seriously though, the topic of toliets brings up an interesting question: could you show us the difference if any, between officer and enlisted heads?

[@jameswinfield7837]

War is all about people and people need toilets.

[@twokool4skool129]

“How did this become my life?” How did me watching this become *my* life?

[@tomwagstaff7781]

So funny, almost as funny as to in the swimming pool where you were trying to float.

[@mokdumoknonsharrall1868]

“How did this become my life?”🤣🤣

[@IainWigglesworth]

Really plumbing new depths this week I see. I never really thought about the toilets on the ship until I watched this

[@mbterabytesjc2036]

The commodore curator of the commodes? Nice. 😜🤗

[@johnshepherd9676]

I was TDY to USPACOM over the 2005 Veterans holiday and had an opportunity to visit USS Missouri and the USS Arizona memorial.

[@michaelbridges6058]

I agree that it makes know cents to operate some things in operation condition the size of a ship . Gun mount are different kids and other people can get the feel of guns

[@Yandarval]

We have seen Ryan go into all sorts of holding tanks. We have seen him crawl a 16 inch rifle. Will we see a vid from inside the holding tank for this one. We cant let Ryan get away with only half a playlist after all.

[@jaybee9269]

Indeed!

[@kevincrosby1760]

Seeing as it is one of the few ship's systems still in active use, let's hope not. Ryan covered this on one of his other videos.

[@cf453]

It could double as a “Testing the NBC gear” video!

[@tryithere]

Get his sht to gather.

[@michaelkirchner8379]

In the photo of the old fashioned trough toilet system, there was a red colored toilet seat. That was for sailors with certain 'social' diseases.

[@johnmcmickle5685]

Sounds like Captain Snyder was the type of officer every service member wants and deserves for a commander.

[@chrisgay4786]

yes a toilet play list!

[@Moredread25]

Do you have a video where you tour every bathroom on the battleship? How many bathrooms does the ship have?

[@IMDunn-oy9cd]

*head

[@shooter.2578]

I really want to see the radio room with some hams working the original radio and antennas

[@BattleshipNewJersey]

They chat with friends they connect with on the radios like other ham radio folks. They don't recreate original messages or anything

[@shooter.2578]

@@BattleshipNewJersey I know I’m a ham and wanna make contact 😂 I’ve heard the ship on the air but I think they were running a modern rig and Oregon to New Jersey wasn’t happening with my 100 watts It would be cool to see/ hear the original radio back on the air (so I guess I have ulterior motives) Appreciate all you do for the ship and our naval history

[@UnitSe7en]

@@BattleshipNewJersey Wait you make transmissions from the ship? What's the deets on that? Freq, power and general operating times?

[@Litotryptor]

Love your battleship content 😂

[@galacticboy2009]

Oh no I'm sorry you got caught up in Established Titles

[@dalezink7085]

Just wanted to say thank you so much for keeping 1 of my favorite girls going.

[@randyogburn2498]

USS Alabama has the trench commodes & my local municipal football stadium still had trench urinals in the 90's.

[@ZGryphon]

The elementary school I went to in the early '80s had a boys' bathroom in the basement that had only ever been partially updated after the place was built in 1920. It had modern-for-the-time cubicles with toilets--but no doors, because... reasons--but instead of a bank of urinals, there was just a ten-foot-long rusty steel drain grating over a trench in the concrete floor along one wall. It didn't even have a damn backsplash. The smell of that room was truly remarkable. That was a long six years. By the middle of second grade, I got to the point where even if my class was nearby, I would walk up two stories and all the way across the building to use the upstairs bathroom in the other, newer wing, and willingly take detention for being gone so long, rather than go down there.

[@garywayne6083]

The various types of flooring used in different spaces for different reasons would be interesting

[@alexkitner5356]

First off, I tried to message Ryan with an idea and it seems like he only takes messages from friends or friends of friends but sent some photos, hope they get thru. Second and more to the point of this video, I was recently aboard with one of the cub scout packs doing the overnight. My son and I were in the head on the rear third deck and some of the other boys were commenting in the odd long sink on the outboard rear. Realized that young kids had probable never seen such a thing and had to try and explain that it wasn't a sink...

[@alexanderjones2126]

Honestly, I'm curious about a semi related subject to the bathrooms ... what does the mess hall (assuming I have the correct nomenclature) look like on an Iowa class? How was the food prepared and stored, and how did the facilities change over time from her 'as built' fitment in the world war two era, to her final recommissioning in 82'? Is there cold storage, or was her storage strictly room temperature only? I have some vague ideas on how modern ships do food storage and preparation, and I am curious on how it has changed over time.

[@johnc2438]

I did a WestPac on USS Carpenter (DD-825) in 1973, an old Gearing-class destroyer complete just after the end of WWII. The Gearings very much like the Fletcher- and Sumner-class destroyers but were lengthened by about 14 feet to accommodate more stores and weapons -- and especially fuel for those long Pacific cruises. Even wayyy back then, we had cold storage for the fresh food regularly brought to our warship by stores ships: fresh fruit and veggies, fresh meat and poultry, and fresh milk and eggs all summer long while at sea. It was an "all-hands on deck" task, bringing in that food (often by helicopters flying it to us on slings from the stores ship) and getting it below decks to the cold lockers. We regularly met ships by day -- and ammo supply ships by night -- to bring on board all the necessary items we used during the cruise: fuel, ammo, general supplies (everything from paint to paperclips) and especially food. Our ships' cooks did a fine job keeping us well-fed.

[@georgedistel1203]

At least now you can say that they have toilets, most television programs don't acknowledge the existence of toilet facilities

[@MrKen-wy5dk]

How does this compare with the facilties the IJN had for their crews in WW2?

[@Terran994]

I don't know if that statement is correct about the sinks. The treaty limit comment. Stainless Steel sinks are quicker to make than porcelain, probably cheaper, and do save weight on ships where weight is an issue. During the 1929s and 30s yes treaties did limit weight for certain ships, but by 1940, the war has broken out, all treaty and limits were gone. That's why the Iowas could be built. Thing is at that point why reinvent the wheel. If stainless steel sinks work on other ships, they'll work there

[@randywise5241]

Things like this are a reminder that these were homes for the crews living on them.

[@AdamSmith-kq6ys]

Guys, I think we broke Ryan...

[@APV878]

the "trough thing" with boards with holes in them, constantly flowing water, and no stalls, is the same thing the ancient Romans had. Although I think it progressed a little bit for the wiping part from a sponge on a stick to toilet paper. Although what the Gemini and Apollo Astronauts had to go through....Um....Space travel not as glamorous as first thought.

[@crazyguy32100]

Quick tip for anyone with stainless appliances or fittings. For polishing stainless WD40 works great, if you don'y mind the smell.

[@UnitSe7en]

MMM. Toxic smears on my fingers every time I touch it. Sounds great, Dad! Your idea is fucking stupid.

[@vburke1]

Ahhhh the glory of being a battleship curator, giving the potty talk LOL

[@31dknight]

another great video from the battleship. thanks

[@joshbaker2437]

I'm curious what alloy of stainless was used? If a food grade alloy such as 316 that was also passivated it would've held up better but it is more expensive.

[@ColonelSandersLite]

Every day living stuff is good. For suggestions, I don't recall you ever really talking about the bunks and how they may have changed over time much.

[@peter_smyth]

Would enamelled steel toilets and sinks work? Most of the weight advantage of steel, but with the easy-clean surface of porcelain.

[@johnc2438]

The enamel would crack and chip off from the wear and tear of being at sea.

[@scotthorton6289]

You should do one on how the Head got it's name. For all of the non Navy and Marine Corps members who watch.

[@floridag8rfan]

"Welcome to Toilet Talk with Ryan!"

[@kcamera4975]

More on toilets! 😄

[@jamesmoore869]

Use lemon juice and scotch Brite easy clean Ryan Schmanski Battleship New Jersey.

[@CMDRSweeper]

My toilet question for New Jersey wuld be if she had any gun related toilet damage. There is a story that the British Nelson class when firing its guns, tended to break the head / toilets in the bow, so did New Jersey ever have similar stories?

[@erinraymond7168]

Janitorial duties would be interesting. Just daily cleaning and waste removal alone must have accounted for many man hours of work per week.

[@kevincrosby1760]

Each department on my ship had its own berthing. Each division within Engineering sent a man each week to take care of our berthing and other spaces such as the passageways outside of our berthing which we were responsible for. That WAS their duty station for the week. Heads were deep-cleaned, all surfaces wiped down, trash picked up, etc. every morning. Decks were stripped and waxed every Monday morning, re-waxed on Wednesday and Friday morning, swept/mopped/buffed every morning, and swept down every mid-day and evening. Trash was taken out 3X daily, and the heads were generally at least wiped down and mopped again right after lunch. In short, a modern Naval vessel's common areas are completely cleaned each and every morning, then maintained throughout the day. Friday afternoons were generally set aside for a thorough cleaning of workspaces, offices, shops, etc., and were at least swept down and picked up several times per day. As for the Galley and Mess Decks, if the galley staff wasn't cooking, they were cleaning.

[@Kyfordman1989]

I have repeatedly asked about backup power if the boilers went off-line what does New Jersey have for back up power to run the ship

[@davidgardner863]

It looks like the battleship sailors had the same kind of facilities they had in Ancient Rome.

[@nunyastockson5901]

its sad how many times i say "wow this WW2 ship looks EXACTLY like my ship that was commissioned in 2010"

[@douglasboyle6544]

"Are we going to have a playlist just about toilets?" 🤣

[@dalehood1846]

US NAVY 73-77, On my first ship USS BLANDY DD-943, a 1st class, EM-1 Sierra, he told me about the " trough toilets" on an older aircraft carrier. Sailors "upstream" of others, when done, would crinkle up newspapers and light them on fire and sending it "downstream" to surprised Sailors. 😆😅😂🤣😭😅😂🤣😭😭😭 The narrator of this video talks about these troughs at 4:03. Sailors!!!!!!!

[@dalehood1846]

Sorry, that should have been EN-1, Sierra was an Engineman, not an electrician. Good guy.

[@737Garrus]

Clearance received to fire at the sponsored ad. Let's broadside this, all the guns on the ready, aim to Port Side Beam.

[@StrokerStevens]

I’ve seen my share of heads! LOL. I am curious if the flight deck is still there? I was in HSL-33 the first ASW to be stationed aboard a Battle wagon, BB-62 in 1983.

[@dodgeplow]

If they had used the right alloy of stainless steel, the rusting and staining would not be so much of an issue. The navy probably didn't want to spend the extra money (typically it would have more nickel and chromium which adds significantly to the cost)

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

A question , did females serve on the battlships ? . In the 90s Wrens were allowed to serve at sea for the first time and most RN.ships had to have the heads either redesigned or partitioned with alterations to lighting and other services .

[@BattleshipNewJersey]

As far as we can tell, no women ever served on the battleships

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

Thank you for the reply , your videos are always interesting and bring back a few memories of the ships I started working on .

[@robertstephens1203]

If you want to experience a trough urinal, use the bathrooms at Dodger stadium.

[@tomp7621]

I can only use those after about 4 beers, when the urge to go exceeds my "urinary performance anxiety"

[@JPINFV]

"How did this become my life?" How about a video about the difference between officer heads and enlisted heads... 😀

[@JeffreyDRein]

Dad told me that on the Wisconsin, you didn't want a seat on the end of the trough in rough seas. (enough realism to make one want to join the air force !)

[@christophertstone]

"How did this become my life?" -- We're human, we eat, poop, and work... The kitchen, bathroom, and guns are the majority of the ship.

[@kman-mi7su]

Great video Ryan, how about a video on garbage disposal? Where did they store trash if they did while at sea? How did they dispose of it?

[@kevincrosby1760]

Sweepers, Sweepers, man your brooms. Make a clean sweep down fore and aft. Sweep down all lower decks, laddder wells, and passageways. DUMP ALL TRASH CLEAR OF THE FANTAIL | HOLD ALL TRASH ON THE FANTAIL | DUMP ALL TRASH IN THE RECEPTACLES PROVIDED ON THE PIER.

[@mctag5317]

Subject - Hygiene, showering in salt water? Captain gets fresh water (bath?) Delousing crabs? (das boat style)

[@ponchoremerize5508]

I'd like to know how the Cable-Runs through the bulkheads changed when she was fitted for NBC warfare.

[@yankeefist9146]

Single ply or double ply on the battleship? Also how much?

[@MrAxlzero]

how about the machine shop and spaces used to make stuff for the ship

[@kevincrosby1760]

Search again. It's been done.