Andy Dinsdale – What different engineers are responsible for

I mentioned earlier if you’re in a submarine, the marine Engineers are responsible for everything that pushes it through the water, that makes the fresh water, that makes the electricity, all of the what you quite often call the ‘Hotel and Propulsion Services’ so the Hotel Services.

The Weapon Engineer, which is what I was, is responsible for saying the obvious, the weapons, so understanding the weapons and that’s missiles and torpedoes, so this is on an SSN.

I never served on the SSBNs, so weapons on an SSBN takes it into ballistic missiles and you tend to sub split the Weapon Engineer on an SSBN to be what we call Tactical Weapons and Strategic Weapons, so there’s a split there between Weapon Engineers on an SSBN.