On what’s believed to be Bolling’s Facebook account, there were various posts related to anti-vaccine memes as well.
Frankly, I’d be a little grouchy if I were a submariner – someone forced to live in close proximity for extended periods of time with other people in an environment in which zero ventilation to the outside is possible – and they were hell-bent on not being vaccinated. I mean, it was bad enough on surface ships.
Of all the fields that you could possibly have chosen to work in if you can’t stand vaccines, nuclear submarine crew has got to be just about the worst. You go underwater and don’t come up again for months. I’d say “astronaut” might win, because they have more-limited options in terms of surfacing and putting people ashore in a life-critical situation, but submarines have more people aboard than spacecraft do.
EDIT: It looks like he did three attack subs and a ballistic missile sub:
Bolling is a U.S. Navy veteran who served as an enlisted submarine warfare specialist for more than 20 years, according to military records. Between 1993 and 2017, he served on four submarines: USS Columbia, USS Albany, USS North Carolina and USS Alaska.
The USS Alaska is the ballistic missile sub.
I thought that ballistic missile subs had longer deployments than attack subs, but apparently I have it backwards:
They hot bunk to save space so when somebody is crawling out, you’re crawling in. Better hope they don’t sweat. Or that they don’t forget to use a sock or something.
Frankly, I’d be a little grouchy if I were a submariner – someone forced to live in close proximity for extended periods of time with other people in an environment in which zero ventilation to the outside is possible – and they were hell-bent on not being vaccinated. I mean, it was bad enough on surface ships.
Of all the fields that you could possibly have chosen to work in if you can’t stand vaccines, nuclear submarine crew has got to be just about the worst. You go underwater and don’t come up again for months. I’d say “astronaut” might win, because they have more-limited options in terms of surfacing and putting people ashore in a life-critical situation, but submarines have more people aboard than spacecraft do.
EDIT: It looks like he did three attack subs and a ballistic missile sub:
https://www.columbian.com/news/2024/apr/02/what-we-know-about-man-accused-of-breaching-fbi-gate-in-atlanta/
The USS Alaska is the ballistic missile sub.
I thought that ballistic missile subs had longer deployments than attack subs, but apparently I have it backwards:
https://www.usna.edu/SubmarineForce/where/deployment.php
Eating canned food.
They go noseblind to the farts inside of a week.
They hot bunk to save space so when somebody is crawling out, you’re crawling in. Better hope they don’t sweat. Or that they don’t forget to use a sock or something.