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![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I'm a sub fan too. Been stationed on them all my career! I remember my toy model of the N/S Nautilus that I played with in the bathtub:) Later I read the Jules Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 ![]() ![]() |
I'm a sub fan too. Been stationed on them all my career! Still in, or retired? Retired 1993, EM1(SS) Qualified USS Seadragon SSN-584, June 1976. Rode USS James Monroe, SSBN-622(B), 4 patrols out of Holy Loch. Taught IC & EM "C" Schools, NTC San Diego, USS Buffalo, SSN-715 (Last one still running) USS Plunger SSN-595, Final Westpac & Decomm. USS Shark SSN-591, TemDu, Decomm. Subase Pearl R-10 Div, 38N & 10D shops. Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
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Ahoy sailors:) I spent some time on my first christmas three months old on the destroyer Halland. ![]() And here is the sub Hajen "the Shark" that I have been abord:) ![]() |
![]() Send message Joined: 17 Nov 04 Posts: 7 Credit: 18,421,416 RAC: 4 ![]() |
Still in, have 18 years, going for 24 if the let me! Thank you for your service! Member of Subvets? FT "A" School Qualified USS Hartford Oct 2000 Taught LAN schools at TTF Bangor, WA USS Key West for 6 years Converted it "ITS" rating, IT for sub's (brand new) COMSUBPAC IT working both afloat and ashore policy Reporting to USS Charlotte in a few days!!! |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51527 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
I, and many others, have a world of thanks we owe to you vets. Debts that we are unable to repay you. Please just accept my thanks and appreciation. I am sure you don't get it often enough. Meow. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 ![]() ![]() |
Still in, have 18 years, going for 24 if the let me! Chaplain, USSVI Wahoo Base, Fresno/San Joaquin Valley. Past President, Current Chaplain, FRA Lemoore Br. 261 Chaplain, Assist. Adjutant, American Legion Visalia Post 18 Mbr Ex-Comm, American Legion California District 15 Trustee, VFW Sequoia Post 1864, Visalia. Keeps me busy and out of jail. Also work 5 month/year as Senior Mechanic/Floor Supervisor USDA AMS Cotton program, supervising and maintaining cotton grading machinery & operators. Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Prior to his last day of work responds Supreme Commander in a DN interview questions about the submarine search in the Stockholm Archipelago on 17 to 24 October last year. - I am absolutely sure that Sweden was violated in October. I am even more convinced today than then. The final analysis that we conducted is broader and much deeper, says Sverker Göranson. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=sv&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dn.se%2Fnyheter%2Fsverige%2Fob-vi-gjorde-fynd-pa-land%2F It's almost imposssible to find a submarine in the Baltic Sea. Different saline content and temperatures is a problem for detectors. Then in the Stockholm Archipelago where you can hide almost everywhere... ![]() ![]() |
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U-boat is a populary drink. Here is a variant. Depth Charge. Ingredients. Trappist beer Rochefort and green Chartreuse. https://youtu.be/rjidr20iscQ "One of the most dangerous thing you can drink" ![]() |
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