How US Navy Nuclear Submarine Gets Food Deep Underwater

We explore the intriguing world of food provision for US Navy nuclear submarines. Discover the unique challenges of feeding sailors deep underwater and see how the US Navy overcomes these obstacles to provide fresh, nutritious meals for its crew. Learn about the various methods the Navy uses to source food, including refrigerated storage and resupply, and see the incredible food preparation facilities on board. Discover how the Navy ensures food safety and quality in a highly confined and challenging environment. This video takes you on a journey inside the world's most advanced submarines, providing a rare and fascinating look at the daily lives of US Navy sailors.
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[@BabiBoi357]

I was stationed onboard SSBN 634 and SSBN 736. Best thing about the boat was the food and the crew. Nov ‘97 was my last duty station and to this day, there are crew members that I still keep in touch with. It’s a brotherhood like no other.

[@Syst3m04]

The boomers might have good food, but I was on the Helena SSN 725, and the food was literally all dehydrated after the first 3 days of every deployment. Oj=tang, eggs=dehydrated, milk=dehydrated, breakfast the exact same thing every day for 6 months. Cholula was my best friend, put that stuff on everything.

[@574664]

Was on the 634g qual boat..83-85

[@reginanjus]

I served about the 634! Are you going to the Submarine Reunion in September?

[@markbilsborough4150]

@@Syst3m04 in between 74-97. MMC/SS A-GANG. Your chop and CO were too cheap. That is why you ate that way. All 6 boats , 3 SSN's and 3 SSBN's all had great food. Some of our cooks went to Chef school in RI.

[@jeffpadilla9891]

634? I was on the Stoney J too! I got there in 88 and rode it to decom.

[@danmclaughlin1180]

The most important crew member on a submarine is the chef.

[@rawx485]

He could singlehandedly take out the whole crew.

[@rodbutler4054]

God bless these underwater sailors! My worst nightmare would be to spend a month underwater in a confined space. How they do it is amazing to me.

[@chrsshears4528]

A month….lol. Try 6 months…..no such thing as a month

[@matthoskin3572]

You must lead a very sad and simple life....and what's with the "God bless" stuff?. A hocus pocus imaginary figure has nothing to do with the running of a nuclear submarine......

[@22steve5150]

It's not hard. In fact if you are junior personnel on your first deployment or two you will generally be so busy that you won't have time to notice the fact that you haven't seen the sky in months. You'll stand watch for 6 hours, then do maintenance and training for 6 hours, then do more training and maybe get some sleep over the next 6 hours (you'll be lucky to get 4 hours a night) before going back on watch and starting the entire merry go round again. The best part is that a couple of times a week you will conduct drills, and often some of those drills will happen during the time in which you would otherwise be sleeping and you'll have to either be a drill monitor or participate in the drills, so quite often you won't even get your 3 or 4 hours of sleep and will often go well over 30 hours before getting more sleep time. To make a long story short, being in a confined space will be the least of your worries.

[@gc4644]

When I graduated A school, I was offered a Sub assignment. I said thanks, but no thanks. I love my sunlight too much..

[@davef2975]

@@chrsshears4528 Please identify the boat you were on that stayed continuously submerged for 6 MONTHS! My longest period of not surfacing was 100 days, and that was on a fast attack doing a "special Op." Deployments last six months (or more) for Fast Attacks, Boomers are on a three-month rotation. I believe "Rod Butler's" comment referenced being under water for a full six months. So either you confused the comment or have indeed set a record for longest constantly submerged (non-surfacing) operation/patrol.

[@mralmnthwyfemnin5783]

The logistics that go into keeping a submarine crew fed are fascinating.

[@Terryray123]

It sucks I'm a surface cook in the navy. I have some friends that are bubble heads. Planning wear the food is. What void is used. The floor in some places are #10 cans till they are used.

[@85thenameless]

@@Terryray123 where, not wear. Sorry, bugs me.

[@daimlercs]

Thats because you dont know my cat...

[@Sammasambuddha]

Try for huge pleasure cruise ships. It's fascinating! 3k people, 3 meals a day, two weeks!

[@85thenameless]

@@Sammasambuddha try a U.S navy super carrier, almost 7,000 people, 6-11 months. Lol

[@user-kn6sz8ji1j]

During the 70s I served in communications aboard a 688 class nuclear powered submarine. Morale and staying busy are two of the most important aspects of being at sea. Good food was at the top of that list. In that regard, I look back and greatly appreciate the work that went into our meals. To this day, I believe that we were fed the best meals in all of the branches of the military and it was due to the dedication of the professionals that manned the galley. In fact, I remember that the supply department, which includes the galley operations, had received the prestigious Ney Award for food service excellence in each category of ship (boat) or shore installation. In addition to a wide variety of meals we typically had Surf & Turf twice during a deployment. I recall that one Petty Officer and mess-specialist who was about to transition to shore duty had put in for duty at the White House but I never found out whether he got it. Nevertheless, I hope that he did. Napoleon is credited with the phrase "An army marches on its stomach" and I would add "A navy doesn't deploy for very long on an empty stomach. A belated thank you and may God Bless.

[@milt6208]

I'm sure it was better than what we got on my destroyer.

[@dentil1955]

This comment includes more perspective than the video! Thanks for your comment and service!

[@BenTLH]

Thanks for your dedication and service!

[@TheMormonPower]

As you served on a sub, I have a question. What about if a crew member has a emergency medical situation ? say gets a burst appendix and needs an immediate operation. Do subs have qualified surgeons on board ? Operating rooms etc...Thanks ..just curious 😊

[@michaelrocker9000]

@@TheMormonPower No they do not. They have a Medical corpsman on board who is trained many thing. As far as surgery goes they do whatever they can to deal with a problem till the boat can either get to a port or have a surface ship do a helo transfer. The Navy also does dental x rays to see if any molars need to be extracted because they can't do it at sea.

[@hawaiianboy1743]

As an Air Force airmen, I say thank you for the men and woman who serve in the Navy and have patients to stay on submarines for MONTHS at a time while I get to go home daily to my family.

[@Toledo1940]

PATIENCE !!!!!!!! Not "patients"

[@hawaiianboy1743]

@@Toledo1940 hahaha thanks for the correction. I didn’t realize I misspelled that word!! 🤣🤣

[@fourtyfivefudd]

Even during WW1 with the U boats, and into modern era of the US submarines, submariners have historically always gotten the best food. It’s the price the navy has to pay if they want people to willingly be in a tin can at the bottom of the ocean and not see the sun for months at a time.

[@ronaldpetrovich]

U-boats was WWII.

[@drmaulana2600]

@@ronaldpetrovich u-boat sinking Lusitania was the reason US entered WW1

[@cavscout7113]

@@ronaldpetrovich U-boats definitely WW1 & 2

[@rickkearn7100]

God bless the Submariners. They are arguably the most important line of defense. Thanks for posting.

[@christophernnadede3818]

Never been tested as best, in your wild guess!

[@mr.everything9120]

It's called mutual assured distruction.

[@revbenf6870]

Mutually Assured Destruction even. Although manually is an interesting take on it haha.

[@maxvandenberg955]

@@revbenf6870But then again, all destruction is manual. By either pressing a button, sending approval or loading ammunition.

[@revbenf6870]

@@maxvandenberg955 yes indeed...

[@ms.annthrope415]

🙄

[@DirtyAstronaut]

I lost it when he said that. Someone obviously didn't do their homework... on ANY of this

[@andyhughes1776]

I am an Air Force guy and when I was stationed in Hawaii in the early 2000's, I came across a Trident Class Submarine Chef. Very hard-working guy and being of Asian descent, he asked his Commander to approve feeding the crew Eggrolls. He made authentic egg rolls for the entire crew and they love it! They deserve the best!

[@byewunyofrancis1278]

Am also a Chef bat I really like this video

[@Abacab965]

Betting the Chef was Filipino 👍

[@andyhughes1776]

@@Abacab965 No, he's of Vietnamese descent.

[@azthundercloud]

When i was tdy in kadina, i met a marine who was a baker. He absolutely loved it. Just like myself i loved my job in avionics.

[@camerontyler5565]

I'm infrastructure of mechanisms that upper escolar but Ingrid follow up courtesy matter if official statement for what's genetic Genesis exhibit.

[@williamanderson4999]

I am very happy to know that there are people that can handle the close quarters, working and living under water. Not me, I salute you all. During a Veterans Day parade in NYC once. I did talk to a submarine crew who were marching in the parade. And yes indeed they all said the food is excellent.

[@WilburBeauregard]

I Served on a fast attack SSN 666 from 1981-1984. No complaints about food ever. We even did a two month Special operation mission under ice without resupplying.

[@ryan0150]

It’s because the navy knows if they got what soldiers got the part of being on a boat for months on end would be twice as bad lmfao

[@David-tb3oo]

All of our military people deserve the best nothing but respect God bless

[@michaelhellwinkle9999]

There were barely even any pics or videos of submarine cress mess or galleys, the vast majority in this video were surface ships

[@alanw.johnson2116]

As a retired Senior Chief, and from the Diesel Boat era, we formed up the entire crew to load stores. Frozen first in deep freezer boxes, then potatoes chest high in the two shower stalls with produce on top, then canned goods on every floor space sometimes in boxes 2 high in berthing spaces, and lastly eggs in the escape trunks. That was until DOD started purchasing the food, late 60's when we got canned hamburgers in green C ration packs. So I SEE that things have improved an awful lot. 90 Days not an uncommon deployment. DBF /SS

[@navyproductions]

Wow thank you for your comment! Respect 💙

[@royvonalmen5044]

My Dad was a cook on the Tench, what stories he has.

[@zeke1eod]

My brother was on the Sea Wolf, and Hammerhead spent 90% of his career on Subs, I didn't like em gues that's why I picked EOD lol

[@smokerise]

I remember those green C-rations...all of us army brats used to love them. We would get boxes of them and go camping for a week or so...we survived on them, with the fish we caught.

[@mikesullivan2075]

I remember c rations you got 4 cigarettes and a pack of chicklets the fruit cake wasnt bad lol

[@dfluke3698]

It never fails to amaze me the technology involved and also the dedication and mindset for sailors to perform at such a high level !

[@user-uv6ep4ye5s]

I was the Supply Officer on USS Narwhal SSN-671. We won the Ney Award for best small mess in the Navy in 1973. The Chief Messman was a genius.

[@subvet3668]

So many of the video clips of the galley are definitely from some larger surface ship. Spent 28 years on Subs, from the smallest SSN 603 to the biggest SSBN 727 and everything is much smaller on a Sub. Also, on smaller fast attack subs the food is manually carried over by the crew in a human chain for the most part. Sometimes a pallet is set on the topside but still very manual.

[@paulramsey8187]

I visited a cold war sub as a museum in the Hammburg harbor. I knew when watching this video that the kitchen space was far too large to be on a sub.

[@billgrandone3552]

MADD stands for MUTUALLY Assured Destruction, not Manually.

[@fkreller1]

Are MRE's part of that?

[@theoutdoorguy8740]

@@billgrandone3552 madd, mother's against drink driving

[@billgrandone3552]

@@theoutdoorguy8740 Figured that out by yourself ,dd ya?

[@johnroof2663]

I was at the navy for 6 years I could not live or work in an environment of the submariners. There are better people than I. I did a lot of my tour with amphibious assault crafts, and that was dangerous enough.

[@22steve5150]

That's funny cause when I was serving on subs, most of us thought that it was the surface sailors who got the shit end of the stick when it comes to a job you can live with, especially those who have to put up with marines and their idiocy.

[@WilburBeauregard]

I Served on a fast attack SSN 666 from 1981-1984. No complaints about food ever. We even did a two month Special operation mission under ice without resupplying.

[@williampaylorjr9481]

My father was a torpedoman on sub tenders. Growing up in Groton and Charleston I can remember going to pick up my dad from work and seeing submarines moored in pairs along side his ship. When we were stationed in Charleston I was able to go on a Tiger Cruise on the USS Orion. When we got into the ocean they stopped, my dad took me on deck, pointed and said "keep watching out there". A submarine came straight up out of the water. They had a few smaller boats next to the ship loaded with big canvas bags. They went to the sub and unloaded the bags to a line of guys on the front and back of the sub that passed it along then down a hatch. The hatches closed, water shot up all around the sub and as fast as it appeared it was gone. He told me it was training and they usually moored along side each other to practice transferring torpedoes and other weapons but they didn't because it was a Tiger Cruise. It seemed pretty quick though. This was in 1977-78, do they even have sub tenders anymore?

[@paulwarren1313]

Yes there are 2 sub tenders left in the fleet.

[@KEV_101]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_tender This says “USS Frank Cable” is 1 of the 2, didn’t read the article except the caption but yea like he stated above there are 2 remaining

[@williampaylorjr9481]

@@KEV_101 it says the Emory S Land (AS-39) is the other tender still in service. Thanks for the link

[@KEV_101]

@@williampaylorjr9481 Yes sir!

[@moconnor50]

You must be talking about the USS Fulton. My brother was a diver on that sub tender.

[@megafonzie5541]

"Sailors are surrounded by explosives, combustible materials, and even nuclear weapons....and farts....so many farts...."

[@neilh363]

I thoroughly enjoyed your video! You invested a vast amount of thought, time, and research into the creation of this content. Thank you for sharing with the world!

[@camerontyler5565]

Your video wasn't bad but the justice of the way of open bar, and poland compass before it's stimulates. The real notice to I just fluctuates neccessity the real condition the majestics of theatre hold.

[@ironjohn5914]

The passing of gas in the submarine is terrible it has nowhere to go but get recirculating around.... 🙏

[@trezndawg4240]

I absolutely love the fact there is a clear understanding of Mutually Assured Destruction, i.e., "If I'm going down, you're coming with me, Bro! I assure you of that!"

[@christophernnadede3818]

MAD Doctrine doesn't include you inside the SUBs please. ICBMs are deterrent only for Nuke States, like the bi, and tri laterals in the 80's ( USSR - USA) - and more now

[@gc4644]

I'm a navy vet, never assigned to a sub, but I've heard that sailors on a sub eat better than any sailor on a surface ship.

[@jessicaregina1956]

Does that include officers on carriers and sailors on cruise ships? 🤣

[@knoahbody69]

@@jessicaregina1956 Yes because you can't guarantee quality with the kind of volume and limited space on a Carrier. A lot of space is used by ordnance and aircraft hangars.

[@jimmyPOUFAJones]

Back in the day, submariners got a ration and ½ per man which allowed for better food and it was cooked in a lot smaller quantities

[@aliasunknown7476]

u won a lottery for a tour on a US nuclear submarine and used primarily stock footage along with a littany of elementary school facts about submarines great work guy

[@patricklogan8327]

YES, this! And when did the US Navy start labeling the control panels in Russian?

[@zalman7208]

In a previous lifetime won a contract to send a couple of trailerloads of corned beef brisket to San Diego Naval Base, for use on submarines. Worked our hearts out for this, made it with a great measure of pride, exceeded all requirements and then some. Made it all under strictest USDA supervision. Someone didn't like that we did it, product got rejected. Hired one shady lawyer at great expense and the product was accepted without question almost immediately. Their old supplier didn't like competition, I guess. According to this video, it was Sysco. Never tried again.

[@saviannugent8823]

The US is the king of logistics, this is amazing. I’m constantly in awe of our Armed Services.

[@freemanfgteevty6438]

8:06 is a picture of a Russian sub (note the cyrillic message)

[@Danogil]

6:47 MAD is not a Manual it is Mutual Assured Destruction. Most of the other mistakes in this video I could handle Army personnel in place of Naval personnel, showing a warehouse on a land base in place of a storage locker on a sub.

[@obhuicoksetyaetse1]

Manual assured destruction is the throwing of rocks after the big one is over

[@Danogil]

@@obhuicoksetyaetse1 Oh WWIV

[@phil4977]

Food safety is an enormous issue. The kitchen and its staff play a vital role. They equally as important as any member of the crew.

[@MegaTrekone]

6 years, 4 Boomer and 2 years in Fast Attack, I love my Dolphins. Sub Qualified for life.

[@lifeislife489]

They stay in deep water surrounded by nukes. They deserve good food and much more.

[@leomartin1903]

God bless these sailors on these subs. I did my little time in the Navy. It's said that sub-food is the best in the fleet. But for these guys TO WANT TO SERVE IN such a DANGEROUS SITUATION IS BEYOND ME. BECAUSE SUB-DUTY IS COMPLETELY OPTIONAL.

[@WilburBeauregard]

I Served on a fast attack SSN 666 from 1981-1984. No complaints about food ever. We even did a two month Special operation mission (67 days) under ice without resupplying.

[@thermalitodiversion]

I guess I'm blessed, I've been on two cruise's on the USS Phoenix SSN 702 while it was active, had a five course dinner on it with my mom and dad! Road the sail into Fort Lauderdale, no shit.

[@rneustel388]

Thanks so much for sharing this interesting information and showing our great servicemen and women going about their lives on a sub.

[@martinkellogg4087]

Ex-submariner here. We did stores load hand to hand. All hands on deck. One number 10 can at a time. Pistachios and like items rarely made it to the wardroom. We were fed four meals a day not three. Most of it was excellent. My first C.O.'s favorite meal was lamb curry. Flippin' nasty. The research into making this video must have been pretty bad because most of the video was from surface ships. Obviously it is difficult to get footage on a submarine due to security.

[@clintonbench]

And some footage from Russian submarines… why bother with facts?

[@VeryDeathlyShiny]

@@clintonbench I mean, they did talk about "Manually Assured Destruction". So they covered all the critical info... *eyeroll*

[@jedisaki730]

One thing I have learnt in the Aussie navy, which I will say has some of the best "chefos" ever. Is, take care of your cooks and help em out. Whilst at sea, it's easy to get bored and when meal times becomes one the best times during the day, you wanna eat good. Also, the Navy loves working in favours, I help the chefos out, my portions may be a little bigger next meal...

[@dv8mr226]

If I signed up to be in a sub, I would expect submarine sandwiches every day

[@dennispearson]

These Sailers are the best of the best.

[@mantia39]

Wow! I now know nothing more than when I started watching this...

[@retrochris8107]

I always wanted to be on a sub, but as im 6.2ft I ended up in the army. Worlds apart but so so worth every minute of it/.

[@rnordquest]

My son is that tall too. He was cook on subs for 5 yrs. He retires as a Sr Chief next year.

[@jenette16]

Ah, I recognize our shops handiwork in the galley. Loved doing maintenance in the galley. Night shift, we were allowed to take breaks in the galley. All them deserts put out all night. They have a soft serve ice cream machine on board. The galley always got top notch repair work. Fun times

[@joemoore4027]

Subs always had the best chow in the navy. Other than that you could not get me on one of those coffins ! I was on an aircraft carrier in the 70's working the flight deck with VA-146. Waiting on a line with 400 other crew members in front of you only to be put off what was being served, beans and rice, gray hot dogs and god knows what synthetic meat burgers were the only choice etc... . Ramen noodles were always on hand in our shop for food. It was better than what was being served ! I hate those dam noodles to this day ! Cheers crew mates !

[@evanrandall1675]

I look forward to shaking the hand of an American submariner someday

[@matthewhuszarik4173]

Submarines actually serve 4 meals a day because work goes on around the clock.

[@reginanjus]

They went to 8 hour watchs vs 6 hour ones from my understanding! I worked 18hour six hour watches!

[@matthewhuszarik4173]

@@reginanjus Same here six hour watches and anywhere from two to four people’s in the rotation.

[@williamkaczmarek3996]

I was on an FBM sub and we only did stores load out tied to the pier. In those operations, it was always an all hands evolution and we never surfaced to to on stores underway.

[@MrStradia]

On a boomer, we never resupplied stores at sea. Our mess specialists really kicked butt, feeding 100+ crew 4 times a day. Fast attacks typically were able to make port stops on their med cruises to onload stores.

[@WilburBeauregard]

I Served on a fast attack SSN 666 from 1981-1984. No complaints about food ever. We even did a two month Special operation mission (67 days) under ice without resupplying.

[@herbwells6218]

I spent 10 years in the Navy, the surface fleet! And other divisions. I had the displeasure of spending a few nights in a steel tube, and my hat is off to those men and women who do it. I'm partially claustrophobic, so I didn't handle it real well.

[@Victor-xh9ji]

Of the 11 patrols I made on subs their was 2 times when, a person was taken of duty and we had to request to be taken off our patrol in order for that person to be airlifted off the sub. Our patrol were of 90 days under water.

[@deepaksinghbora0777]

Hi Hello

[@mikerichards6311]

I just can’t sleep without a window open

[@gregjackson-ks1gh]

The Air Force gets fed very well also. Need to keep those mechanics happy. If submarine food is better than that I can understand how those sailor's stay under water for so long without getting depressed. Army chow only comes close on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Subs probably get that every day.

[@ziggyszymczak7371]

God bless our navy ❤️

[@congresswars5045]

Didn't anyone get the narrator's error when he was talking abut the nuclear triad and said MAD stands for Manually Assured Destruction? It's Mutually Assured Destruction.

[@echohunter4199]

As a retired Army Infantryman, Navy cooks are the best hands down.

[@JJ-rf7dg]

Submariners deserve to eat good being confined underwater for months at a time.

[@EnglishApache26]

You guys at YVMA got one thing right, Boomers and GN’s HAVE the capability to just load FULL pallets onboard. I remember pulling into Kings Bays, which was a pain in the ass to begin with, and couldn’t believe the size difference between fast attacks and boomers/gn’s. No hot-racking, crews lounge, and the extra space, sometimes I feel like I got attached to the wrong kind of boat, but then I ask them about actually doing your job, and I don’t feel as bad. Still wish I didn’t have to hot rack when I was non-qualled, but thankfully I got my fish a while ago

[@Victor-xh9ji]

In the 80’s the boomers I served on which was on 4 we had to form line of sailors and chain pass the food boxes and the movies reels which became vhs tapes a few years later.I’m sure now is dvds? Fun time and great memories

[@EricThompson1965]

On my Trident, USS Henry M Jackson SSBN 730, we onloaded food stores in modules. But we formed a fire line of guys to onload TDU weights. Small 10x10x10 inch boxes which one would not think were heavy by looking at them, weighed 72 pounds with 10 weights of 7.2 pounds each. Lowering them down the hatch, we once had a bug Ensign wanting to be one of the crew, but ignorant as to TDU weights, he waited at the bottom of the hatch and told the topside loader to "Drop it down here." So he did. About 10 days later, after he got out of hospital and back to the boat, he no longer wanted to be one of the crew. lol

[@EnglishApache26]

@@EricThompson1965 😂😂😂 Wish I could say I’m surprised, but damn that’s a good one

[@markbilsborough4150]

The crew other than watch below decks were mustered topside to load stores. Break down all of the boxes and load cans by hand down the hatch to keep bugs from getting. English cookies and Pistachios were ordered for the officers. When loading by hand, 48 boxes were received on the pier, only 30 made it to the ward room. Come movie night, all the red fingerd qualified squids had not seen any loose cans of Pistachios when the lights turned on. Always a mystery Fun times..

[@threetoyotas]

Although I worked below the water line and would routinely go days without seeing the sun. My hat goes off to my sub shipmates. I worked in the engine room on an LSD and sadly most of the time at sea we were 18 on and 6 off. 7 days a week because there’s no days off in the ocean. Too tired to even go get fresh air. However we we’re always taken care of in the food department.

[@josephlindsley6172]

i was a cook specialist aboard 3 boomers & fast attack submarine from 71 to 74 . We never got food supplies from outside sources, once we went under that was it, if we ran out of item no replacing it. I remember on one patrol we got down to powder eggs, milk, can spam, and anything left in a can. As for galley it was very small one side was cooks other was bakery side which shared space with dish washer. I must say galleys aboard subs today are complexly different.

[@joestephan1111]

When I was young my cousin joined the Navy to see the world. They made him a cook on a then standard diesel submarine. He enthralled me with tales of how they made 50 pancakes at a time on one single long, narrow griddle.😮

[@michaelcanty4940]

The law of pancakes. Every pancake has two sides. One is the better side and you always serve the best side up even when the mess hall is making 200 pancakes.

[@joestephan1111]

@@michaelcanty4940 My cousin said you started down the row pouring batter on the griddle. When you reached the far end you came back and flipped them over one at a time. When you reached the far end a second time you came back & flipped them onto a plate before serving.

[@michaelcanty4940]

@@joestephan1111 I was taught to pour the batter but wait until the bubbles started to appear, then you could be sure the pancake could be flipped. Also the hotter the grill the better. By the way, I wasn't a cook in the Army, but was on KP once and the lead cook wasn't available. Our cooks were quite good most of the time.Amazing what a man learns

[@knoahbody69]

Being a bubblehead is a volunteer job.

[@xxxxxx-tq4mw]

When i was in the U.S. Army stationed on the port of P(B)usan, South Korea 01/1969/-02/1970, i was in a terminal service transportation battalion, living on a permanently docked barge, one of our duties being the unloading of merchant ships,including reefer, for 8th army, and we’d have the old diesel subs tie up along side us for fresh food stocks, as well as use our showers. Although their arrival was classified, the local "business” girls from the honkytonk area known as "Texas St,” always knew they were coming.

[@christ510]

That is because even the highest needs are serviced.

[@DogBeast221]

Business was good in Osan as well.

[@emersomsavaz]

That's awesome 👍 God bless USA

[@Durrpadil]

Subbed and liked. I'm so thankful for the military in every capacity 🙏

[@DennisMook-ky6lx]

They get fed like kings mate .might be a little tight for space but these people are the men n woman that risk there lifes every day to protect us so show some respect

[@C.Chandler_May]

A lot of the clips you showed of sailor's eating wasn't from a submarine.

[@e86truck]

The selection process for sub crews is very extensive

[@knoahbody69]

I had a book on subs when I was little. They said they went to a school in Connecticut and had to free swim up a dark tower 25 feet up from a simulated flooded compartment. If you have a fear of drowning and confined spaces you won't last long.

[@rohitnautiyal7090]

I think food on the ship was very good! I would always go for seconds until marines showed up lol

[@johnfuller6338]

From what I saw in this video the people on the sub were eating better than I ever had in the army, I should have joined the navy.

[@knoahbody69]

The Navy is all fun and games until you have to secure the hatch on your buddy to prevent the ship from sinking.

[@charleslloyd4253]

In the 60s dad was stationed at COMPACFLT at Pearl. I became the harbor paperboy and boarded all vessels of the Pacific fleet when they were in harbor. Every ship and sub had a softball team and they would play each other for cash and beer. So the officer of the day would ask me who were the winners and who were the suckers. And I asked what move they were showing that night. And I would go hang out with the crew and watch movies with them. My favorite part of the base was the sub base. They showed movies in the torpedo room and I would straddle a torpedo and they always had ice cream. They would let me practice with them in the escape tower and teach me open ocean survival training. At nine years old I would go to the marine barrack pool and teach Marines how to swim and survive at sea. Some of the subs were older diesel electrics. But I got tours and movies aboard the first six generations of nukes. And the first nuke carrier Enterprise.

[@DogBeast221]

Recruiting can never start too early. BOOYAH!

[@vincecuthbert69]

It would be a honor to cook for the military as a thank you gift to all of the brave men and women who give their lives for our freedom 😀

[@user-ui4cq5yb4d]

אין כמו אימא בעולם!!!!!!!

[@vincecuthbert69]

Sorry I don't understand your language

[@pingme67]

Great info. I was on a carrier for 4+ years and my son is on a fast attack. this is the 2nd or 3rd video thou you are talking about certain functions on a Navy ship and show a different branch or a total different ship. this one has Army supply folks in a store room with LOTS of room. most of the galley shots where not from a sub or at least the few I have toured. there was one on testing jet engines on a carrier that had Air Force personal. As I said great info just try to stay authentic.

[@carolecarr5210]

Were they Army supply folks, or Marines?. I thought Marines.

[@EricThompson1965]

I served aboard a Trident in the 80's. STS2 (SS) aboard the USS Henry M. Jackson SSBN 730 Gold. Maybe things have changed, but when we onloaded food stores prior to every Strategic Deterrent Patrol, we began every 72 day patrol with enough food to last 1 year. Powdered food, mostly. Remember why those boats are going on those patrols. Should the unthinkable come to pass, and we played our part in destroying every living thing on the planet (It was estimated that the full payload of 1 Trident could eradicate 3 Billion people) the Navy must have thought our minds would be eased knowing we didn't have to return to the nuclear wasteland we once called home for a year... Oh boy! That sure would have been a fun, fun year... Waiting and knowing our time was imminent.

[@DogBeast221]

Bless you and your fellow sailors for manning the watch. Thank God you didn’t have to carry out your ultimate mission. Peace through strength…

[@JWest-so8ok]

4:18 The US Army Food Inspection Specialist. My first duty station was Pearl Harbor FISC. I remember visiting the Ships and Subs. The Navy eats great. The local galley would have lobsters and steaks. Great times.

[@BK-qp8zp]

As a member of one of the military branches at the time, it was very common to be stationed with other military branches at a joint base. I can tell you this, I never met one happy Navy wife!

[@paulreza5354]

If you cut down the crew numbers from 130 to 60 a sub can operate for 6 months before running low on food.

[@erichendrickson6368]

US sub, here is footage of US Army Supply

[@Ser_Arthur_Dayne]

The Submarine Cuisine book is an absolute treasure and I read it often ... both for historical reasons and actual culinary inspiration/tips/tricks/etc. I highly recommend it to anyone with a desire to learn and maybe experience a bit of undersea warfare history - while cooking and eating and drinking, what could be better?!

[@rwmiranda0301]

As a former submarine sailor and submarine cook, we had tug boats that could resupply our food if needed! The video shows numerous surface vessels that have lots of room to store food but in a submarine it’s much smaller and less room to store food! We had to use every nook and cranie to store food!!

[@Tom-dt4ic]

6:42 "Manually" assured destruction. I almost manually assured my own destruction by laughing so hard. You can't make this stuff up.

[@oyy74275337]

すごいね！潜水艦の中で調理室あって火が使えるのは隔世の感！

[@simaos.desouza8767]

Mind blowing Stupendous efforts. God Bless n protect the Submarines n all involved in different type of logistics. ABOVE ALL PEACE SHALOM ✌️👌👍👏🙏

[@RusselMix]

A big big salute all American navy I am a Filipino,I am proud to say American navy is the best nation And strongest nation during world war👏👏👏👏

[@flyerbob124]

What’s with the soldiers in ARMY uniforms checking food in a NAVY Sub video????😮

[@jamesoconnor2753]

They recently went to these uniforms.

[@flyerbob124]

@@jamesoconnor2753 nah…..there was a person in Army BDUs with US Army on his uniform. They are at 5:27.

[@jamesoconnor2753]

@@flyerbob124 There were scenes in the video that were definitely were not a galley aboard a nuclear submarine. After my Naval service, I worked for 34 years aboard subs as a civilian employee of the Navy. I worked on the last diesel submarine, USS Bonefish, 616, 637, 640, 688, Trident and Seawolf classes and never saw a galley that big on any of them, especially the scenes with the large coppers that are more typical of a surface ship.

[@jamesoconnor2753]

@@flyerbob124 A lot of the scenes are not in a galley of a submarine either. I worked on subs for 34 years as a civilian employee of the US Navy after my Navy service. They were filmed on a much larger surface ship.

[@DogBeast221]

Very strange video. Army (?Veterinary Specialists) doing food stores inspections in a large storeroom. Obviously not filmed on a submarine.

[@Ant_Mo4]

The navy needs to bring back those blue camo uniforms

[@stefanomagaddino6868]

What special training must one go through to become a submariner ? For any job.

[@TBone14159]

You have to go into a rating (job specialty) that can be used on a submarine. Then you volunteer for sub duty, go to submarine school (usually about 6 weeks), and are assigned to a boat. From there you begin qualifying in submarines so you can be awarded your dolphins.

[@stefanomagaddino6868]

@@TBone14159 Thanks Thomas. I thought the training had to be extensive.

[@TBone14159]

@@stefanomagaddino6868 You're quite welcome, Stefano. If you need to know anything else, just ask.

[@user-px8lx9dp6h]

I'm having flashbacks from my days back along time ago in the Navy as a cook on an aircraft carrier hating life because it was literally hell being overworked and it was exhausting 😢

[@gordonbartlett1921]

First of all, it's MUTUALLY assured destruction, not manually assured, etc. Second, if these subs are part of the Navy, why do so many of the crew have Army insignia?

[@alanstrong55]

The food may be quite good. Even so life aboard a sub would not work well for me. Cramped quarters make me claustrophobic. Give that opportunity to a good deserving sailor who is rightfully made for the job.

[@sparsh415]

It looks a good life/career as long as nothing goes wrong and can understand why it`s important to keep the crew`s minds occupied whilst at sea. I personally,like many others, couldn`t do it though.

[@bartschwartz9233]

Only have 2-3 months of food pershibles gone in 2 weeks

[@Lp-ze1tg]

I assumed that sailors won't get sea sick underwater. Right?

[@natedoggna1101]

Correct, there are no waves underwater to toss the sub back and forth

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

Hard to fall overboard as well

[@dogsense3773]

Navy 73-77 just before I was getting out of the navy, my chief said can we get you to reenlist ? I said the only way I would reenlist would be if I could be a forklift driver on a submarine, he said get the hell out of here! True story

[@EnglishApache26]

Sadly, you can still get sea sick from a sub. If you’re transiting on the surface, kind of like you see in the first couple of seconds in this video, that’s when you’re most likely to feel sea sick IF the sea gets rough. I got sick on my very first underway, I’ve been on ships before but being on a sub when she’s rocking is a whole other ballpark. Thankfully Doc usually has plenty of sea sickness pills in his space. It’s mainly because subs aren’t designed to operate solely on the surface, so when a wave hits it, it rolls more than a surface ship would. It’s essentially a big ass tube that’s designed to go UNDER the water while surface ships hulls are designed to stay on the surface and lessen any effects waves may have on rocking them.

[@Subdood04]

@@natedoggna1101 not true. Depending on sea state and surface weather conditions subs can roll and pitch at depth. Can go deeper, problem is if there’s a problem, very difficult to go to PD or surface in rough conditions.

[@Mike-lh4wn]

Question...I know you have to alternate cook times when you are at high altitudes. But in contrast, do you have to also alternate cooking methods when far below sea level?

[@dianebrady6784]

No...the sun is a type of 'pressurized vessel'

[@Idahoguy10157]

Served on an SSN for four years. The food was good. Often excellent. But the crew still complains. That’s sailors…

[@Jor0716]

Ah yes I love me some manually assured destruction

[@BelloBudo007]

Given that surfacing gives away the subs location, I am wondering with resupply of food or materials, if perhaps a dedicated submarine for resupply underwater is just too far fetched. Maybe I am way off in my thinking. But no doubt when it comes to taking onboard supplies, time is of the essence. But a surfaced submarine just seems a very tempting target to me. Therefore taking supplies while underwater seems logical. No?

[@Subdood04]

It is not done that way. And while on deployment, Boats do not often surface for resupply. What you have on board is what you eat. No fresh veggies or milk, frozen or dehydrated. Powdered milk which is nasty, often referred to as “plastic milk”. Sometimes UHT pasteurized milk, Al’s nasty unless very cold.

[@Chesirecat111]

Surfacing only gives away a subs location if there happens to be someone there to witness it. The ocean is a very big place, even with satellite surveillance it’s very difficult to locate even a surface ship unless you already have some reasonably accurate intelligence on where it is likely to be at any particular time.

[@DogBeast221]

This was indeed an odd video. Clearly the authors were misinformed. Resupply at sea does not happen, except for emergency items or medical evacuation. Food resupplying is done in port.

[@patrickwade3150]

@@Chesirecat111Boomers will not ever surface for their 3 month tour.

[@jeffreyallen9626]

Awsome teamwork 🙏❤

[@timothysarris9742]

Great video. Such a big task to perform 24/7 on employment!

[@TheWwong]

Manually assured destruction at 6:48????

[@tolson57]

I noticed that too. It is Mutually Assured Destruction.

[@natedoggna1101]

Same lol

[@richardgiles2484]

It's always made me smile when people say he or she was only a cook. Without food none of th armed forces would last long 🤣🤣

[@catherinesofikitis179]

Go Navy!!!

[@cuzr702]

Looked so good I signed up. Accidentally joined the NK Navy. Hope they got got good chow too.

[@kh40yr]

I hear the best food is on a sub, not much complaining from my Cousin who stayed in a tin tube for 25 years. He spent time on CVN 68 Nimitz and said the food was just that,, just food to fill a gap. Couldn't wait to get back on his sub and the small kitchen grub.