Submariners

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Submariners

• The culture of the submarine fleet on the
  University of Toledo.

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Where are submariners found?

• Above water,
• Below water,
• In a bar,
• In a car,
• Over here, over there,
• Almost everywhere.

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Where are submariners found?

• There are currently 42 countries that have
  submarines in their Navy.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Los Angeles class Submarine
USS Birmingham (SSN-695) performing an emergency
blow.
Video Source http//americanhistory.si.edu/subs/c
onst/anatomy/attacks/emerblow.avi
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Ship or Boat?
Image source www.mod.uk
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Submariners and its culture

• What is different from a submariner and a surface
  sailor or a pilot?
• 1) All submariners are volunteer
• 2) Its a requirement to earn your dolphins.
• Dolphins are what you receive after complete your
  submarine qualifications.
• A board makes up the final qualification and a
  series of individual interviews make up the
  majority of the testing.
• 3) The submarine culture is markedly risk-averse.
  Such phrases as The Silent Service and Death
  from Below

The enlisted Submarine Insignia
Image provided From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
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Submariners and its culture cont.

• United States Navy Submarine School.
• A language of acronyms exists with a unique
  vocabulary, as well as foul language.
• Holidays are spent together.
• Communication to outside the culture is limited.
• Time and your life is laid out for you
• Days are different, based on an 18 hour day
• It is the closest thing to being dead.

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Words to describe a Submariner

• Underachievers
• Courageous
• Disciplined
• Gay
• Weird

There are a large about of negative connotations
and homoerotic activates. Shell Back (crossing
the equator) Blue Nose (going below the polar ice
caps) Hot Racking Close Quarters Rear Admirals
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Pantheon of Heroes

• Heroes are more the submarine than a person or
  group.
• USS Nautilus SSN 571
• USS Dallas SSN 700 (made famous in The Hunt for
  Red October)
• USS Thesher SSN 593
• USS Scorpion SSN 598
• Exception Admiral Hyman George Rickover

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Pantheon of Heroes cont.
Hyman Rickover was born to a Jewish family in
Maków Mazowiecki of Poland, but at that time and
prior to World War I under Russian occupation.
Hyperactive, political, blunt, confrontational,
insulting, flamboyant, and an unexcelled
workaholic who was always demanding of others
Hyman George Rickover Father of the nuclear
Navy
Source http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Rickove
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Artifact

• I would propose placing an artifact in front of
  Gillham Hall.
• It would be constructed out of metal painted
  yellow and blue, the blue would be the world of
  painted countries that have submarines in their
  Navy.

USS Toledo SSN 769
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Artifact cont.

• The artifact would be a functional piece as well.
  It would act a an umbrella the stairway between
  these buildings.

It would be the front third of the submarine with
its conical shape and it would look like the
nose of a rocket but at the same time represent
the submarine fleets all over the world with map
that would wrap around the artifact. Geography
and Function wrapped together.
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Questions?