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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Responsibilities include:

-Raising the periscope

-Polishing the torpedoes

-Deep exploration

-Having sex with other men

[–] TheRealShadeSlimmy@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago
[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"100 guys go down, 50 couples come back up." - as quoted to me by a career submariner

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

You had me at going down

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dang they all paired up? I'd think there'd be a lot more just sleeping around going on in a scenario like that.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

Hey nobody said the couples were exclusive, or that they stay the same for the whole underway.

[–] starik@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

$7M is nothing for a sub. Cheap ass sub, can’t even afford shirts for their sub boys. Pass.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's like $140M today. Also, that ad makes it pretty clear that shirtless boys that are subs is the main selling point here.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Still pretty cheap, good subs go for billions these days.

[–] puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

while i certainly wouldn't turn money down, I'll go for free.

[–] Axiochus@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This was so unbelievably homoerotic that I had to check. It's real. No edits. 1944. 😸

Source: https://fdr.artifacts.archives.gov/en/objects/20669/learn-to-operate-a-7000000-sub

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hey, America was made on the backs of young strapping men and women. He just always had a preference for some reason...

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Can't afford bigotry during total war.

[–] dukemirage@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No they did't know, because they didn't ask and they didn't tell.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

DADT came from the Clinton era.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And McCarthyism technically ended in the 50's, but you can still make anachronistic references for humor and comparison.

[–] certified_expert@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

They totally knew

[–] mech@feddit.org 14 points 1 week ago

Imagine how awkward it would be to be the only straight guy on the sub.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would (the guy, not the submarine)

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

Correct choice is both, but you do you.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago

What's long, hard, and full of seamen?

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago

Not an expert, but I believe that's a "Come Hither" look.

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

My dad would always tell me about how many unreasonable people made his life hell in the Navy. Maybe it was because he was too straight and missed all the “team building”.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Man, I wish I cost $7000000. We gotta stop setting unreasonable standards

[–] BigShammy80@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

"Beeing trapped inside of a submarine with a 100s peoples farts"

[–] certified_expert@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What about serving your nation by being the captain of a (current) $800,000 electric bus?

Less gay (lol) and more useful to the country.

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] certified_expert@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I know, right? It is a bummer. It's probably due to the lack of steam and close spaces 🥵