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Originally Posted by Skip
I was a boomer sailor (ballistic missile submarine for you landlubbers) in my distant youth, 640 class boats. That's where I received my electronics training (courtesy of Uncle Sam...thank you) and last served active duty as a Sonar Supervisor (STS1/SS) on th e SSBN-645 (James K. Polk). Afterwards I served a couple of tours as a reservist with a Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Unit out of Portsmouth, NH until the unit was dissolved and transferred a distance I didn't want to travel on a monthly basis. And as you infer....I shudder also to think of what we could do today with the internet as a resource!
At least you're not a skimmer puke!  |
The correct Navy term for a submarine sailor is
"Bubblehead" NB