SSBN. ETV. Will not respond to questions about sensitive or classified subjects. My views are my own and I do not represent anyone.
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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.
What the Chief said. There’s PowerPoint slides they make you sit through about stress reduction, but nobody follows them and there’s nowhere and no time to apply them while on mission. When you can, you look for the root of the anxiety and try to deal with it, such as studying harder if you’re anxious about a qual exam, or joking about it otherwise, but besides that and talking to Doc, there aren’t that many other outlets besides exercise, videogames and trying to lose yourself in the routine.