Life Aboard the USS Florida (SSGN-728)
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- On 19 March 2011, in conjunction with other U.S. Navy and Royal Navy warships, Florida fired scores of Tomahawk missiles at Libyan air defense targets as part of Operation Odyssey Dawn. The Tomahawk missile strikes allowed British, French, and allied warplanes to begin enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya, preventing Muammar Gaddafi from using his air force to attack rebels in his country. This was the first combat action for the Florida or any other Ohio-class submarine. During Operation Odyssey Dawn, Florida launched 93 Tomahawk missiles, with 90 effective, out of her total magazine of about 160 missiles.
Of the four Ohio-class SSGNs in the U.S. Navy, Florida was the only one that was available for use in Operation Odyssey Dawn since she was the only one that had been assigned to cruise the Mediterranean Sea. Some other Tomahawk missiles were fired by American surface ships and by a few Royal Navy nuclear submarines.
On February 15, 2013, the crew of the USS Florida were awarded the Navy Unit Commendation having "distinguished itself in action against the enemy" during Operation Odyssey Dawn in 2011. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
I was on the Florida from 1980 PCU to 1985. Did 5 patrols on Gold. Great boat, great crews. Will be 40 years old on June 18 2023.
that's my girl,, I was a welder who helped build her, one of many I worked on, lol all these years later she is in better shape then me, nice
+kevin mcshane I also been in parts of that ship no navy man ever will go
+kevin mcshane What parts will no Navy man go to?
Ive been in those parts
Between the pressure hull and the outer hull and in parts of the reactor.
kevin mcshane just curious what was the allowable weld rejection rate? Was every weld X-rayed?
I was a crewmember on that submarine when it was the SSBN728 in early 1998. I was part of the gold crew. Unfortunately I am in no contact really with anybody from back then. There was no Facebook, Instagram, etc. I wish I still had my Florida hat. It went missing during transition back to civilian life.
christopher jones I was on the Florida from 95 to 98. MT's rule.
@Kevin Johnson that comment is a little rude. My comment was from 3 years ago. I did get one eventually, even though it's not the same. Also, I didn't ask as to where to get one in my comment. I merely made a statement.
I was on 1999 to 2002, Blue crew, STS3(SS). 🙂
God bless these men
If you're a fan of Star Trek, serving on a submarine is probably about as close as you could get to what it would be like to live on the USS Enterprise.
A starship is basically a submarine in space.
How? There is no element of exploration or comfort. Submariners essentially suffer for the entirety of their journey.
Err no bro.. more like camping with someone who doesn't wash and you are stuck in the same room...
@@skikarno739 so worse?
@@FazeXg4ming You're being stupid!
*s/ Retired 24 Year US Navy Submariner - USNA Class of 1965 - Former Enlisted Man*
@@SaltiDawg2008 Would you consider submarines from that era to be comfortable and spacious? How would you describe the element of exploration experienced in a secret underwater vessel with no windows?
I was a Marine Machinery Mechanic and worked on this one during her conversation from "BN" to "GN"
What does it mean for it to go from BN to GN?
@@NLRchargingwildcat missile conversion from D5 ICBM's to Tomohawk's
My dad served on this sub! He retired in 93'
So awesome, I couldn't do it because of the technical issues, much respect from a Army grunt.
I can't even take a picture of my boat, but these people film an entire documentary...
Thanks all U.S. Arm Forces! The U.S. is always a Super Power!
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lol No doubt they were tough warriors but come on, look at the kill rate between VC and U.S..
I served on board USS Rock AGSS 274 mid 1960's, we had mustang quailfly for gold dolphins, we hit USS Diodon - port side.
That is nice that the people on the submarines can communicate with their families, use the internet, and do some reading while off duty. The ships are built to be the best in the world and operate anywhere.
GreAt Video!
My grandfather served on the U.S.S. Florida in World War I, which was a battleship. It's sister ship, the Utah, was a "target" ship after WW I and was sunk at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.
Nice!!!
0:58 the guy on the right hates his job..
@@carolbragdon1964 Non-qualified? He has his Dolphins, you don't get any more qualified than that.
@@wntu4 My husband has his dolphins. USS Henry L Stimson SSNN 655 Blue. So very proud! These submariners are true brave heroes!
@@carolbragdon1964 Outstanding!
He's like "Well here I am driving a submarine again. Whoopee."
"Dive! Dive!" Ahh-OOOOOOGA! :)
I was the one who found the barried treasure underneath the sliding bench locker in the control room port side fire control consol. It was a 5.00 bill signed by the decommissioning crew!! Great hiding spot guys!!
That sounds fun.... do the crews do something like that every time they decommission a sub?
@@Rick_Sanchez_C137_ Very sorry, it was from the commissioning crew. Yes ship is still commissioned.
I would probably go crazy if I was deployed on a submarine! I'm assuming it's not so bad if you keep working and so forth. But being under the sea with no where to go is a scary thought to me. Guess there's something for everyone
they made everyone shave for this portion of the underway
I helped work on her also ! ECC Groton CT
I suffer from "PTSD" (Post Traumatic Submarine Disorder)
God bless you warriors
4:20 fyi... "Chief of Machines" is not a thing
Poopysuit.submariner term for overall.⚓
Prone to seasickness, so I joined the Army.
From what i heard from my cousin a sub under water is smoothe.
When I was young I liked to be able to go to the club to dance and knock boots with sluts as often as possible... so I joined the army and went to Germany, the eighties were fun!
How DO you filter smoke from that,grill UNDERWATER?...what valve can you open...
AAliyah Beyonce star they are called smog hogs.. We have them at my work for the machines.. It purifys the air.. The residue collects on filters which can be cleaned or replaced.
Near the muffler bearings
...roof vent to the chimney...
no hotracking, all this extra storage space, soda machines, huge ass gym n shit AND two crews rotating 3:03 battle racking and no one cares ugh .... motherfuckers dont know the fast attack struggle :'(
im a mother fucken sailor
you're making little to no sense. with someone named Texas I figured you could communicate effectively in a way to be easily understood
John has obviously never hung out with sailors, this is just the fucking lingo
John Texas I'm not lying, but feel free to report away if I hurt your fee-fees that bad. It's obvious you haven't spent time with any sailors, your sensitivity and arrogance are showing.
John Texas Keep on projecting, it doesn't change the truth. It's funny, I'm only twenty years old yet I learned long ago to stop judging men by factors like their choice of language or beliefs, and start judging them by their strength, capacity, and character. When you do this, you will start to spot "diamonds in the rough," so to speak, as well as wolves in sheep's clothing. What I'm trying to say is...you're very good at sounding proper and coloring within the lines, but you're the last sort of guy we'd want on a boat. These paragraphs of yours mean nothing but "fuck you," but you're not man enough to come out and say it. You hide behind self-righteousness and allegations. So...at the end of the day, fuck you, John.
3:09 It's Called The Galley. Not Canteen.
The announcer is British and they call it a canteen. Same thing for a cafeteria.
US submarines have a mess deck to eat in and a galley to prepare the food.
@@chipblock2854
I could be wrong, but I believe the voiceover was done with a computer simulated voice.
when I was a kid a Buddys dad took me aboard a fast attack sub at Pearl Harbor...man it was pretty cramped. years later a friend aboard the USS Ohio invited be aboard the Ohio when they made a port call at Pearl Harbor in the early 90's....I was in the Marine Corps at the time. the first thing I was surprised with was the space aboard the Ohio compared to the fast attack's.....regardless, u wouldn't catch me serving aboard a sub...OOORAH & Semper Fi to you Submariners out there....
It used to be much worse, in WWII there weren’t enough bunks, so two or three guys had to hot bunk, and the bunks for the torpedo crews were suspended from the torpedo racks. Nothing says sweet dreams like using an 800lb warhead as a pillow.
I was comparing my experience with garrison life in the Army of the 1980's. Except for field exercises it was 9-5 (more or less). Was wondering what 'in port' or shore duty life is like.
wcatholic1 Well, inport on an SSN, you are probably in 3 section duty, meaning every third day you spend 24+ hours on the boat. Shore duty totally depends on where you are assigned. Anything from Recruiter to NPS to A School as an instructor to NSS Groton, CT. Many different shore duty assignments and their hours and demands vary greatly.
For us, in garrison in was usually Mon-Fri 0600 to 1630-1730. An occasional Saturday if vehicle maintenance was falling behind or a big inspection was coming up, but that was rare. In the field its 24/7 under simulated combat conditions. We played in the dirt once a quarter anywhere from an overnighter to up to 10 days or so. Once a year we had a 30-45 day major exercise. This was long before the current wars and endless deployments. The op tempo was much more relaxed than now.
we did 2-3 years on shore and 4-5 years at sea depending on your job (postal clerk, radioman etc) at sea we're on ships.. ships do not sleep.. so someone is ALWAYS on the ship. more time the more junior you are.. and less time the more senior (in rank) you are. the best hours i ever worked were 40 hour work weeks (shore duty) (but this does not include the time you had to study approx 4-6 hours for every hour you taught) (instructor duty) once qualified tho it was pretty much back to 4o hours not counting travel time or lunch... the worst time was 80+ hours a week for a year straight while assigned to a ship. m-f 12 hours, saturday 8 hours.. and 24 hours every third day. And i have seen some poor bastards work even more hours they were in port and starboard for a year (12 hours on 12 hours off). the navy unlike any other service except perhaps the coast guard, is the most time demanding.
My dad was in the Navy 68-88 but he did his hitch on a carrier. There it while in port it was a “9-5” job too, except every 6th day was a 24 hour on the ship regardless of weekday or weekend though you were permitted family visitation time. Understandably subs have tighter restrictions.
Another thing to consider is submarines have a blue and a gold crew so once the Blue Commander and Crew come in the Gold Commander and crew will start taking over the boat for the next cruise. At that point the Blue Crew will do dry land jobs, got to training and qualification schools, or get reassigned to other vessels, not necessarily subs
Another thing that doesn’t get mentioned is subs operate on an 18 hour day where they will Man their station for 6 hours and have the next 12 hours “off” but that off time includes class and study time, any sort of unscheduled work in addition to rest and actual “personal time” and meals are served every six hours with cold breakfast options always available and usually some sort of cooked breakfast type food. So yeah you might have steak and pancakes
Chairs in the mess decks? Every boat I served on had bench seats. Those chairs must be a real bitch to deal with during evasive maneuvers and "angles and dangles".
Since the boat was originally designed for a much different role (ICBM launch), I wonder if it's much larger and more expensive than it needs to be to fulfill its current role. Sort of like the battleships that long outlived their original reasons for being. Just wondering; I don't know.
bus114 I would equate it to when the Navy took its straight edge carriers that couldn’t take the pounding of modern jets and converted them to helicopter carriers for the marines and Used then for space vehicle recovery vessels in the 60s and 70s . These boomers are finishing out their service life with a new mission until they can be replaced with vessels custom designed and built for the job. Sorta like the trailers you once say build out of the ass end of a busted up ford truck
steven heckert Busted up ford truck is redundant.
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Splice the main brace!
I served on USS Florida
Did you know Kirkpatrick, Chief of Machines🤔
How is the condiments not slidings off the table...
Black magic
Wouldn't the Los Angeles-class, being smaller and capable of going into shallower water, be a better platform to deploy SEALs?
Anh Trieu Some Los Angeles class boats were retrofitted for SEAL deployment. USS La Jolla SSN-701 being one of them
I’ve heard that living on a submarine is like living with 135 of your brothers and uncles
Worried about sound in the ocean... wonder what the ocean creatures thought about 100 nuclear warhead tests under the ocean surface?
kick ass lads
Love how they tell them that ancient sub was/is top technology. Strategic thinking by us
This why they call them the Silent Service. Find them, chase them, and sink them
Co-ed submarines? Gee, I wonder if any sex ever takes place.
Adam Honesty and decency they are way too busy for that
the girls get their fill of semen.
Internet access on a SUBMARINE??? *LMAO!*
Submarine communications have very narrow bandwidth, particularly when submerged. Furthermore, excessive internet telecommunication on a naval vessel might reveal its location to enemies. The email communcation is usually done when the submarine surfaces and via satellite.
they store emails in queue and release them when they are authorized. however at that time they also have access to the internet but its not anything you can use to get on pornhub and really glitchy obviously
Alex Romo
No pornhub?!. I am definitely not joining now.
theres an underground network Terabytes upon Terabytes of any form of visual or audio entertainment you can think of and more to last a full lifetime
Yeah, they renamed it to the towed internet array...
Kazilikaya Do they receive spam too!?😁
i heard food on a submarine is terrible but it doesnt look that bad in this video. also saying the sonar thing is like the front row of a rock concert probably made people more alarmed since you can get pretty serious hearing damage at the front row of a rock concert
I was on that boat 30 years ago. Food was excellent.
Chris Cleary I agree, food onboard subs was generally excellent. That could be affected by your Chief Mess Management Specialist. The first one I had on my first boat, was a miser. Food was OK but kind of boring. After my second patrol, we got a new MSC who believed in spending every freaking dollar on the crew. Food improved 100%. Steak, lobster, you name it and all served family style. Crew appreciated it and had a much better attitude towards the mess decks crew. Guys used to volunteer to help clear the mess decks after a meal. So, were you a f**king Nuke or a forward puke. By the way, thank you for your service.
MMC(SS) USN Ret.
Douglas Reeves Hi Chief. M-Div here. Bunch of good guys. I still have my poncho liner that reeks of the boat.
the budget was probably higher for submarines.. you could eat as much as you wanted.. in the surface they restricted how often you could eat or how much. one thing that was prevailant tho in surface or sub.. was the quality of the steaks.. there is prime choice etc all the way down to cutter and canner grades of beef in the usa.. well .. the beef the navy got was roadkill grade.. there was so much gristle.. infections.. warts or whatever in the beef you had to eat around that stuff that wasnt meat to get to any real meat.. i skipped the steak meals. hamburgers(sliders) were 50% soybean. but they were edible. my favorite was chicken or turkey or pizza or shrimp or lobster or .. and this one was the best KING CRAB!.. but we only got the king crab when some politician or navy admiral visited.
First: Thank you for your service. Second: Since the grub on the boats was so good, how did you guys keep the weight off?
He said “email” but not mention any wifi. Because they only sent emails when the sub emerged on surface. So if you volunteer for sub duty, know what kind of environment you’re gonna be in.
Great duty for people who like to read (as I was told by submariners I knew back in the day)...
@@Rick_Sanchez_C137_ not if you work back aft. There are four six-hour duty shifts per 24-hr day, and the Navy expects you to work at least 3 1/2 of them. You can eat/sleep/read when you're dead...
So a submarine has gained a promotion.
From "boat" to "ship".
Whoever would have figured?
It is actually both - one by tradition and usage and the other by usage.
*s/ Retired 24 Year US Navy Submariner - USNA Class of 1965 - Former Enlisted Man*
Plank Owner.... BAM
Keith Dyer Were you a plank owner on USS Florida? Did you serve on any other boats?
Plankowner ... USS Jacksonville (SSN 699)
I think submarines are awesome in every way however I think the sound bursts underwater are not good mainly because water is a much better conductor of sound than the air is so the decibel level of a rock concert could be too intense for marine mammals living in their marine environment. The NAVY will develop new technologies that will change this I am sure.
Marcus Reed - in the context of an Ohio class submarine, that segment of the video was a bit of a tangent. I understand the concerns about low frequency active sonar, but why they brought it up is a mystery to me. Because the Florida does not have that type of sonar.
In addition, towed array sonar is not “active”. It listens. It does not ping, per se. It’s “passive”.
Pretty similar to a Floridian lifestyle
The stilted British announcer and video quality and especially the campy music make this video feel like it's from the 1970s but then you see the flatscreen TVs and laptops lol
@ 0:51 Might Need an Evaluation. Dude just Ain't havin it.
It is one of my dreams to cook on a sub, ship, ferry or even train. I am not a soldier, but a great chef. They would appreciate me.
no they wont trust me
😂😂😂 you are joking right?
being a great chef and military cooking have ZERO in common. it all comes out of cans these videos are bullshit
Does everyone in charge cook their hair off with big brains??
if she could only talk where she been and done
7:30 they forget to blow the aft tanks too?
At 4:30, WTF is the Chief of Machines? Not a Navy rate or position of authortiy. COB, sure. M-div LCPO, sure. A-div LCPO, again, sure. Not Chief of Machines.
i'm sure they just "converted" it into UK lingo. it's probably what they call the jobs on their own submarines.. which they do have.. their own boomers and fast attacks.
It’s a british program designed for a british audience
Douglas Reeves No doubt he is the CPO responsible for the safe and efficient operation of a nuclear power plant
5:55. Had to squeeze some enviromental bull shit
if you can design the human body to live of electricity then maybe its can stay underwater indefinitely but no. theres also ai.
Thing looks liked a damned hotel. Should have been on a Washington class boomer back in the 70s! There wasn't even enough room to roll over in your rack.
1:00 The guy with short hair looks tired
The Navy tired of spending billions on Tridents and never utilizing them , so they have converted many to SSGN's. Tactical weapons that have many uses in skirmishes as opposed to the single purpose that Ohio class subs were originally built for: Extinction of the human race.... I served aboard the USS Henry M. Jackson for 4 strategic deterrent patrols. I went in as a hawk. I came out as a pacifist.
Dude, the four SSGN conversions were because of a strategic arms reduction treaty. We had 18 Ohydros, and the treaty limited us to 14 SSBNs. I was on the Georgia, Alaska, and Alabama (14 total "strategic detergent" patrols). I went in as a nuke, came out as a very bitter nuke with a problematic relationship to alcohol.
SUB-mare-in-ER, no.... SUB-ma-REEN-er , yes
Not according to Marvel comics and cartoons.... I believe Stan Lee’s ghost over any admiral you point to....
Yea gl defeating the usa north North Korea lol would be the shortest war ever
Amazing technology the navy has and all other services
Stay safe and thanks to all the men and women keeping our country safe
An O-6 doing the job of an O-5 ?
Dorothy Gale maybe squadron commander in addition to being the skipper of his boat?
T-hulls rate a O-6. Always have since the Ohio. Typically it's his second (or occasionally third) command at sea. Best of the best. XOs are (usually) LCDRs on their PCO tour.
Back in the day, they were all Full Bird Captians. This was due to the tonage.
My dumb fuck ass thought everyone in the thumbnail was John Oliver
They get Internet so never believe what ur isp says!
join the us navy ..risk your life possibly.. and get some good food while your at it...
Snake Charmer the submarine service gets great food. There underwater for long periods
especially at gunboat diplomacy.
Ukhan Kizmiaz versus IED diplomacy ?
How the fuck do you get wifi under water??
No bone spurs allowed
Trump is too fat to fit on a submarine
Wasn't much about the life onboard.
Because its boring as hell. Lol
Crew member 1989-1992
@Jeffrey Taranto why did you leave after three years🤷♂️
I did a back to back Sea Tour. First Enlistment was onboard USS Pargo SSN-650, then re enlisted for orders tu USS Florida SSBN 728. What a great boat and crew!! Best sea tour I ever did. I did 20 years and retired. Thanks for asking.
How do you get 154 cruise missles on a boomer and still have room for the crew? I don't think so.
Those 24 missile tubes are about six feet wide and forty feet tall. Even using two of them for SEAL stuff, that's still plenty of room. Hell, the first generation of Ohios had liners in the missile tubes because the full-size D-5 missiles weren't ready yet.
BRUH compared to an SSN that shit's cush
Can any ex crew tell me what was the flaw that let so many Russian subs track her and cause her reassignment?
Not a flaw, a strategic arms reduction treaty. Those things are quiet, basically "holes in the ocean". The best way to find one was usually to listen for a lack of biological noise in one direction. We'd have to intentionally start our noisiest equipment so that other subs could begin tracking operations for exercises.
I would hate to be the guy on the business end of 154 tomahawks or a seal team for that matter
SDV (seal delivery vessel) Teams, the SEAL teams who exit subs, climb into the mini subs and go on missions, are the least popular of all the SEAL assignments. You aren’t kicking down doors on the SDV Team,
Would you rather be on the business end of the 192 W-76 nuclear warheads it used to carry? Me neither...
What?? The Capt calling his submarine a "ship"? What is Navy coming to, sad.
subs have always been called ships
fileeditfileedit Subs are always called "Boats", if u are in a Sub and you call it a ship, the crew will toss you overboard. Ask any submariner.
Draxos Place definitely called a boat
Draxos Place lol wrong person
fileeditfileedit definitely called a "Boat"
Overall a good and respectful video, but it's irritating listening to the constant mispronunciation and misrepresentation of so many persons, places, and things by foreigners (often Brits). This goes right down to not even referring to the crew members correctly - they are submarine - ers, not submariners pronounced like the Rolex watch. Come on, man.
That’s a terrible name for a boat 🤣🤣🤣
Would Idaho be a better name
...5:35...not only harmful , made the whale gayer than fukk...the whale went crazy and bit the boat in half and sucked~out all the seamen...
Not really following a day in the life of the submarine.
All they do is eat
god bless the USA
Its the SS Florida not SS Florida state 😛😛😛😛😛
Do we still have "Boomers" ? We still need the "Nukes" (like it or not).
America been in the midterian sea doing what they doing.is just wast money.
Ship REALY wow and your a sub skipper. Wow it’s not a ship
System slaves
Navy nerds, can't fight a war under the sea. That's why I joined the army infantry and did my two combat tours, I wanted to be on the frontlines not reading about it
Right Wing Extremist if these subs were ever actually utilized to their full potential the war would be over in about 10 minutes.
swang gang yeah and so would the world lol
They still served
Must have forgotten about the Seals, and Seabees
Marines say Army is a bunch of pussies compared to them and Marines are the 1st in and out while the Army has a cake walk whats your comments to that one.
You freaking leftist! Sonar effecting sea life! Have you ever been to a sports bar?
Yeah imagine an animal whose species has been talking to each other using low frequency songs longer then humans have been naked and upright, and it not liking us dumping 180 decibels right down its ear canal, that is too crazy, let me kill people with MK 48 ADCAPs already while i eat my HOT WINGS
Why do they always bring on these tree hugging nature spokesmen?
get rid of these "limey" narrators. use correct US Navy terminology! Messdecks, Galley are correct names, not canteen.
MortimerEsq, too bad...Learn English the correct "American" way...if they can make the toilets flush the "correct" way in Austraila YOU CAN learn English the correct WAY.
& Yes I'm trying my best to be a "Boorish" "American"
Did you ever think it might be a UK produced program? Stop being a racist piece of shit.
USA you never have enough people’s sufferings? You started more than 20 wars against small and weak countries ever since WW2. You bought to these countries millions and millions of refugees and death. Shame on you, USA
Moron!
You must be Japanese with "Yen" in your name. Tell me Japan didn't bring death and suffering to untold millions during WW11. If you are not I apoligize but fuck off any way.