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surprise_i'm_armed wrote:What is "FBM" patrol" ??

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FBM = Fleet Ballistic Missile. A class of submarines specifically designed to carry and submerged launch intercontinental ballistic missiles (SLBM - Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile)

Patrol = period of time a Fleet Ballistic Missile submarine is at sea underway covering strategic targets poised and readddy to launch missiles when directed by proper command authority. Typically 78 - 100 days submerged.

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TomsTXCHL wrote:I guess it's more-or-less a Universal Truth that men screw things-up so they're never asked to do them again.

I've not done one load of laundry since washing a red sweatshirt with all my SO's undies.

Way back when I came back off FBM patrol around Valentine's Day, Mrs. Anygunanywhere surprised me with a red nightie. A few days later she went to work and asked me to wash clothes. I jumbled up her white nurse uniforms and loaded the washer. Me being a man and a sailor I did not look in the washer. She had put the red nightie in the washer.

Her uniforms came out pink.

To this day she never asks me to do laundry.

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