Clothes got laundered, mattresses replaced and pesticides sprayed as the Navy waged war against a stubborn infestation of bedbugs that found their way onto a nuclear-powered submarine at its home port in the Bremerton area.
Navy entomologists now certify that “all feasible measures have been taken” to control the infestation and have recommended “repopulation of berthing,” according to a statement from Cmdr. Cindy Fields, a public affairs officer for the Naval Submarine Forces Pacific.
This campaign aboard the USS Connecticut has included laying down diatomaceous dust to draw insects out of hiding and into contact with this “deadly” countermeasure, according to the statement.
But the Navy’s efforts have not quelled concerns from crew members, some of whom have been sleeping on cots in a pier-side shelter erected as temporary quarters to avoid getting bitten in the submarine “racks” where people sleep. more
Hell sakes we have bedbugs running the government in Washington! You know, as in, they are all ‘crazy as bedbugs’!
Ain’t seen nothin’ yet – the really BIG bedbugs are hiding
behind the leaky reactor…
…wonder if Pete the Bubblehead is still around, bet HE could say a thing or two about this ..
I was on USS Sam Houston SSBN609B in April 75. We had a small infestation in crews berthing during sea trials after the yards. They got it quick though, and we went on to DASO in Port Canaveral soon after. Don’t remember now what they did but it worked finest kind! CRS now!
Did you see where the media wants to stop using the term pedophile because it maligns those with pedophilia?
Cue the “Bedbug Supporting” whackos in 3, 2, 1…..
DDT would be a good solution.
In my day it was cockroaches. We used to learn to live with them as pets. The bosun mates used to put saddles on them and raced them!
You should have seen the bedbugs on the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria!
I told Christoforo that he should fumigate, but you know those damned Genoans!
Shouldn’t have named it “Connecticut”
Aren’t boats co-ed now??? They might want to check those bugs for STD’s!
That and anal STDs.
what a lousy way to treat a Navy sub crew.
Buttplugger:
Did I hear right? Did someone say “buggery on a submarine?” I must investigate this! After all, I used to be a Rear Admiral.
Open the door to that reactor and nuke those bastards to death.