M-diver here too...got to her in refuel in Mare Island, then took her back to Pearl. Good boat...tough life though, especially being freshly overhauled and ready to take any and every mission. Glad I wasn’t married then.
You knew most of what I wrote. I thought of that after I posted. The attack boats were hell on marriages a lot more than the boomers. Especially if your old man was a steamin demon. Craig my friends old man was trying to make full bird. We lived one unit apart a year before I met him. Then they call you up on watch coming in and want to know if you’re ready to surface. I got chewed out cause I told them “hell yeah, I’m always ready to surface”. Be safe. Regards