[rottndog]

It's about 77 feet longer that the 300 foot pig I used to work on. Of course, this doesn't mean that there is any more livable space on board--that extra length is probably used by the VLS and lockout chamber. Those silly engineers don't make extra space for people.

[RightWhale]

You know how when you put all your favorite albums on cassette tape and then go on tour with that and then listen to all of them the first day and there is still the whole tour to go? Nevermind, just reflecting on my pipeline days, which is much the same as being on a sub.

[lentulusgracchus]

It's about 77 feet longer that the 300 foot pig I used to work on.

You were in SSN's? Or are you talking about the original "pigboats", the diesel boats?

I was a rider aboard the USS Pargo, SSN-650, for four days once on a cruise down to Tongue of the Ocean for early trials of the Mark 48 wire-guided ASW torp..... they put me in a six-man with some other JO's, cramped as hell, but that was the Sheraton compared to some of the quartering arrangements on those SSN's. I didn't ride along when the Pargo went back to the Barents a few weeks later for another Presidential Unit Citation.