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25-05-2025
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Submarine living: Close quarters & good food
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Submarines are a nuclear weapon used in the United States Navy, with sailors aboard, loading torpedoes. This job is hard to fathom, with usually 150 sailors in tight quarters for months at a time. News 2's Shelby Mac got to tour the USS Pasadena, which is now shoreside in Norfolk, Virginia. She got to tour a C-9 room, meaning there are nine beds, but sometimes sailors on submarines don't get the luxury of their own bed. An inside look at the USS Pasadena's torpedo tube 'So, a lot of these guys are hot racking, so we don't have enough racks to support the whole crew on board so you've got to share racks so it'll be two or three people per rack so they know when their off going time is, somebody is sleeping in their bed,' said Culinary Specialist Submarine First Class CSS1-SS Noah Kvochick. The all-male sailors on the USS Pasadena have gotten close from sharing such tight spaces. 'I always have like a think small mentality, so like, I'm a bigger guy, so the sub's very small, so you kind of got to in the corners, get in the side, let people pass,' he said. One of the perks of being on the submarine? They are known for superior chow, or food, onboard. 'It's a lot of from-scratch cooking, so you don't have the room, the space to hold the food like premade items, so everything is from scratch. Making bread from scratch, cookies from scratch, desserts from scratch, and that's the way I love to cook.' To see more from Shelby's naval journey, check out the News 2 special report . Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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25-05-2025
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‘Torpedo man': Torpedoman's Mate Chief gives an inside look at USS Pasadena's torpedo tube
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Submarines are nuclear powerhouses due to the torpedoes onboard that can be shot deep into the ocean at enemies. These vessels are extremely complicated, said Torpedoman's Mate Chief (TMC), Chief Petty Officer of Torpedo Division on the USS Pasadena, Craig Dunlap. 'Our job as torpedo men, we're responsible for all of the weapon's launchers, the countermeasure launchers, the heavy weapons, the heavy ordinance, the countermeasures, the small arms, everything on the boat that's supposed to go boom.' Even with complicated equipment, a lot of the fixing is done the same way any handyman fixes something broken. Submarine living: Close quarters & good food 'I like to say part of my job is hitting things with wrenches to make them go, so we do a lot of wrench turning, operating and maintaining mechanical equipment with hydraulics, high-pressure air, sea water, low-pressure air, and so on.' With 1,640 buttons and switches on the Weapon Launch Console, Dunlap is never bored. One of the craziest jobs he is expected to do is climb into the torpedo tube if something goes wrong. 'Sometimes it'll snag, and it won't leave the tube correctly, so when you go shut the mussel door, it's still inside the tube. And at that point, you have to drain the tube, quickly open the breach door before it fills back up again because it's not a perfect seal, and then one of the TMs has to crawl down to the end of the tube to cut that flexhose with a manual hydraulic cutter.' These are practice torpedoes because it's been decades since an actual torpedo was launched in battle for the United States. 'The last time we fired a war shot in anger, in a time of war, was in World War II.' Dunlap is living his dream and making a difference, which is important to him. 'I get to make a difference. I'm doing things with the people around me that make a difference, and what the mission that the submarine does, it moves nations.' To see more from Shelby's naval journey, check out the News 2 special report . Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
