StrategyPage (which appears to recieve some US intel) March 22, 2021 reports :
Summary - In early 2021, 5 military medical researchers working for the Chinese
Institute of Military Health Management published a report in the journal
Military Medicine. This revealed 108 of 511 submariners taking a standard mental health assessment survey were suffering mental stress symptoms. This was due to their busy training schedule on PLA-N Chinese
diesel-electric submarines operating in and near the South China Sea...
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The Chinese PLA-N video above mainly shows the interior of a Type 039A (Yuan class) sub. The helpful submariner guide at 0:56, next to the very cramped top bunk, is a Master Chief Petty Officer. Below video is such telling viewer comments, once translated:
“Salute to the submarine
soldier, regardless of mental quality and environment are high pressure”
and
“The
psychological quality of these submarine soldiers is very strong, which is hard
for ordinary people to imagine.”
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