SSBN. ETV. Will not respond to questions about sensitive or classified subjects. My views are my own and I do not represent anyone.
Hi there!
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.
Terrible, but expected, fate given the severe lack of oversight and safety measures. Thing was a death trap to begin with.
Yes actually. There’s a shocking number of submarine collisions that have occurred over the years, almost always because someone wasn’t paying attention or was being overconfident. No matter how advanced your technology and sensors, a ship is only a good as the officers and crew manning it at the end of the day.