Decided to post this since folks seemed to like it in r/Navy.

On MCMs we have an impeller system to mash up shit and piss before sending it to the collection tank. Tank is about 80gal so when it gets to 75gal it either offloads automatically in port, sent overboard when out to sea, or S&S has to cook it down when we are in an active minefield. The impellers we're notorious for breaking down and less than reliable to say the least. One day the impeller for CO/XO cabins and JO staterooms went down and I was tasked with helping the DCs tear down the motor housing to replace the impeller.

The P-way is now covered with shit, piss, and seawater while we wait for HT1 to bring us the part from Supply. I'm sitting there on the berthing hatch when out of nowhere the DC guy asks, "Do you want to eat that?"

"The fuck you mean eat that, eat what?", I ask.

Dead ass this dude is pointing to a green grape floating in the shit water with a grin plastered on his face and I'm utterly disgusted. "No man, that's fucking nasty. You're nasty.", I tell him.

Without an ounce of shame, decency, and an iron gut, he picks that fucking thing up and tosses it right in his mouth. He's chomping on this thing with the wickedest smile like a killer gotten away with murder at trial. I shudder and start dry-heaving. He laughs, the part arrives, and we put it all back together then clean up. Dude wasn't unhinged by any means he was just crazy with a resolve I see in only a few people. He cross-rated to Diver and last I heard he made Master Chief before retiring a decade later.