SSBN. ETV. Will not respond to questions about sensitive or classified subjects. My views are my own and I do not represent anyone.
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Edit: since this has been asked several times:
SSBN stands for “submersible ship, ballistic missile, nuclear powered”. That is, the same overall type of ship as the Red October.
ETV stands for “Electronics Technican, Navigation”, because N was already taken by Nuclear Electronics Technicians. I work with everything from interior communications and announcing circuits to Electronics, shipwide atmospheric monitoring, navigational inertial gyroscopes, strategic nuclear missile navigation, and tank level indicators to basic underwater submarine navigation using the voyage management system and even helming the ship itself.
Scariest thing to ever happen to you while in a submarine?
Fire in the torpedo room. Scariest 1MC announcement I’ve ever heard. Nothing came of it obviously, but still - a fire in a room full of explosives.
Damn! I can only imagine. Glad nothing came of it.
The funniest part about it - when push came to actual shove, nobody followed the emergency casualty watch bills. The Assistant Weapons Officer was holding the firefighting hose in his boxer shorts, followed closely by Chiefs, while the lower enlisted were shoved to the sides and back.