Submariners - - unsung heroes of Cold War

[highcountry]

Interesting video.  This was my military gig during the Vietnam war.  In fact, SSBN 642 shown in the video was my sub and I made 5 patrols on her.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/10/us/veterans-in-focus-silent-service/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2

[old2soon]

I was aboard the U S S Yorktown C V S 10 with Airantisubron 23 attached to C A G 55. We flew the Grumman S2 D and Es. We did a fair job finding diesel boats and could eke out the soviet nukes-until they slipped under the thermocline layer. The noiseiest nukes were/are the soviets at that time. The quietest?? The U S nukes. Very hard to get a handle on. I remember one of our nukes surfacing about a mile from our carrier. All these years later still an impressive sight. A friend of mine was a submariner. He told me there are exactly two types of ships in and on the ocean. Sumarines and targets!! GOD bless all who have served all who are serving and all who will. RIDE SAFE.

[The Anvil]

I recently read War Beneath the Waves by Don Keith. Gripping stuff.

I worked with a guy who was a nuke on a Dallas class sub. Not a job I'd want to do.

[tank_post142]

DIESEL BOATS FOREVER!

[biguglyman]

I volunteered for sub duty when I enlisted.  Combination of my size and bad eyes kept me out.  So I went sonar tech surface and hunted subs aboard the USS Barry DD933.  I was a specialist on the variable depth sonar.  Pretty good at finding subs even under the "layer".  Toughest ones to find were the American ones.  If they didn't want to get found, you didn't find them.  Did exercises with the Nautilus once in the med.  Noisiest damn thing I ever heard.  Ping jockeys rock!

[Rowdy]

My Uncle was a submariner WWII     not an assignment I'd have taken on 

[IamGCW]

Sagire Classic Destructum

Submarine Squadron 16.

[czuch]

I've read mucho about Subs. One of my favorite SUBjects. (sorry).
You havent lived till you've done a night lockout at 60 feet and four hours later, a recovery.
Looking down at the monster after emerging was intense. It faded away into the dark. Just a shape and a presence that was amazing. Getting back we almost ran into her. Its dark down there.
Horrifying as the lockout chamber was filling, real nightmare stuff. Couldnt stop laughing.
God Bless those boys..
Calling Jabba.........

[highcountry]

Actually my father was a WWII submariner.  He made a number of patrols on the Sand Lance (SS-381) and the Cabrilla (SS-288).  During those patrols in the Pacific, they sank many enemy ships including a Jap aircraft carrier.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08381.htm

http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08288.htm

Here's a photo of the commissioning of, I believe, the Cabrilla.  My dad is the young man on the far left.



RIP Dad.

[musclehead]

I worked with a couple of submariners in the post office. tight lipped, the kind of silence the mob could only dream of. 

[Walküre]

USS Pickerel: 

Robert Lloyd Phillips, RMCM(SS), USN (retired)
27 years active service, 3 wars, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War. 4 years, Border Patrol, 20 years, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).

And, MY FATHER!!

[buffalobill]

spent 7 years of my life on nuclear powered fast attack submarines. 1978-82 aboard the USS Groton, SSN-694 and 1982-85 aboard the USS Corpus Christi SSN-705, later re-named the USS City of Corpus Christi, due to "political correctness". I want to say THANK YOU to all the men on this board for their service to Country, and BUBBLEHEADS ROCK!!!!!!!!!

buffalobill

[R J]

Thank you but no thank you on a submarine.

I'll keep my feet above ground and waller in the mud and water.

One reason I never went in the Navy when I enlisted.

Dad was a Marine, so I followd in his footsteps.

RIP Dad, where ever you are.  I've been told all Iwo Jima KIA's were brought home, but I haven't found you yet, I'm still looking.   If I do, you will be in the Iowa Veterans Cemetery, along with me and BJ..