[Unrepentant VN Vet]

..I was the derp in charge of this possible scenario, I would say something like incoming Chinese/NK/Russian bombers or whatnot..

Might work in a movie, but strictly no go in a for-real submarine. (Or really most any IRL military setting.)

Anything happens at all involves absolutely everybody aboard/in the unit. Don't have any room for spectators.

Multiply that attention level by a couple orders of magnitude when you involve major weapons systems.

(Only way the derps could pull off a deal like that would be to have both an active submarine and a crew to man it. Then buy crew silence or kill 'em all...)

[bagster]

(Only way the derps could pull off a deal like that would be to have both an active submarine and a crew to man it. Then buy crew silence or kill 'em all...)

And yet, a missile was launched while AF-1 was in the sky.

These are the facts, and they are not in dispute.

All else is quibbling.

[xone]

gisd O

[LonePalm]

As a thought exercise one evening in the wardroom we considered what the minimum number of people it would take to get a Spruance-class destroyer underway and out of the harbor.

We figured the irreducible minimum was three people. One in Main Control to fire up the gas turbines and oversee engineering. One on the bridge to steer using the trick-wheel on the bridge wing. And one to cut the mooring lines with an axe before going to the bridge to do the navigation and piloting.

This one, USS Harry W. Hill (DD-986), was named for my great uncle, Admiral Harry W. Hill.

WWG1WGA

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
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