If an A-ganger failed to put up the warning sign or if you failed to heed a posted warning sign while sanitary tanks (waste) were being blown and opened the ball valve, you would receive a face full of shit and waste water. I am not a fan of this type of thing (which caused me lots of grief at times later in my career) and I wouldn’t do it now, but at the time it seemed important to get my bluenose certificate and be a part of things.īall Valve: Used in many applications in various submarine mechanical systems but most commonly refers to the ball valve in the ship’s toilets (head, shitter, etc.). I went through it because I was 19 and it’s what you did. The ceremony involved lots of ice, ice cold water, eating ice cream out of our fattest cook’s bellybutton and generally being subjected to hazing involving coldness. Somewhat humiliating, funny in a kinda-sorta way, and something I did on my first boat. After retiring from the Navy her got his bachelor’s degree in History, went to grad school and now works in college administration at his alma mater.īluenose Ceremony: An initiation for anyone entering the Arctic Circle for the first time. During his service in the Navy, which ran from late 1986 to mid 2009, he was a Chief Yeoman and qualified and stood topside watch, below-decks watch, duty chief, basic sonar operator, chief of the watch, diving officer of the watch, pilot/co-pilot. Noe also served shore tours in Washington DC and Naples, Italy. So an old school Los Angeles-class boat with fairwater planes and no vertical launch system for Tomahawk cruise missiles, a newer Los Angeles-class boat with bow-planes and a vertical launch system, and an ultra-modern Virginia Class, on which he was a plankowner (part of the first crew to launch and operate the boat). Noe served on three nuclear fast attack boats, the USS Phoenix (SSN 702), the USS Montpelier (SSN 765), and the USS North Carolina (SSN 777). Marty Noe, a veteran submariner, is here to give us a taste of this unique language.
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