If you are easily offended, turn back now! Many of these terms and phrases are quite explicit, but understand that many of these were used in the days before political correctness. Submariners give a lot of themselves…years underwater missing birthdays, births, anniversaries, funerals, holidays, milestones in the lives of the children, etc, so give them a break.
Submarine Slang Terms and Phrases
Submariner’s Guide to Reliving “life on the boats”
Graphic Humor
Quiet Warriors 
start your car and have your kid yell ‘station the maneuvering watch!’ then sit in your car for the next 12 hours while the engine runs and you sit on the fender and watch it burn gas all the while logging radiator temperature every 30 minutes
There just isn’t a comparison in home life to hot racking.
What about that one guy in the engine room that never bathes and never changes his clothes…
What about hot racking with that guy…
one of my most vivid memories of Libya aside of sitting at periscope depth for what must have been a month, was duct taping the sstg watch between the SSTG turbines for an entire watch – watched first in horror when the EOOW toured the engine room and then died laughing when the EOOW found him and chewed him out for not standing a proper watch.
There’s always that one guy… Transiting on the surface, sitting in the mess decks on slider day (yes, a real happy day when you traded dead roast beef and mashed potatoes for dried out, pressed hamburgers) – a new guy puked all over the table. Ol’ Tom Wykoff just put his arm down on the table, pushed the puke away and put down 6 sliders before he got up and changed his poopie suit and went on watch.
…came in at 1 am in Italy – went to bed – don’t remember puking down the diesel hatch but the A gangers sure did
First day on the ‘boat’ on the mess decks I found a huge tray of really delicious looking cinnamon rolls – I walked up to them and took the spatula and one of the cranks whispered to me – ‘you don’t want to eat that…’ I looked at him, he looked at me and I sat down. He then served a huge roll to one of the chiefs. dougie, the steward then took a huge freshly made trays to the ward room…