When did the Navy start instituting height restrictions in subs? (Doug?)
I don't really know. I know we had a few guys that were close to 6' - hell we had an A-gang* that looked like an O-line with names like Sarge, Swazie and Mongo (who was jumped in New London one night by two guys with knives and came away with a cut on his arm and a piece of one of the guys ear). In any case, it wasn't something I had to worry about.
I know they had them in the 1980s, one of Dan's friends from high school who was fairly tall joined the Navy and was not allowed to serve on a sub because he was fairly tall.
Maybe there was a 6' regulation, the overheads are pretty low - many pipes, conduits and the like throughout the boat so a tall guy would have to spend a lot of time hunched over. We had an XO who was slightly cross-eyed and ran into the pipes so often that at some point he was awarded a football helmet. He was aptly nicknamed Ricochet Rabbit...
-- Doug GSV Back on the Ustafish
*Axilliary Machinery - they took care of the diesel, hydraulic and compressed air systems as well as the atmosphere control equipment, among other things.
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