Posted on 08/01/2024 8:51:58 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
A two year deployment?? If thats not a typo then wow, thats some hard core time in a tube.
My grandson works at Electric Boat inspecting parts on these Subs. Went to school for engineering. At 26...he’s got a damn good start in life. He worked hard to get there.
Yeah, that’s rough.
They mention stopping in Guam and our east coast. Ports where we have maintenance facilities. During WestPac tours out of Hawaii we would layover at our Yokosuka base.
“...armed with conventional long-range missiles...”
Why don’t they all carry at least 1 ICBM Nuke on board, “just in case”?
The Florida is not a boomer. It is not built to carry ICBMs. We have several other boats that do.
I can pretty much guarantee that an excessive number of sailors will not re-up in the Navy after such a long deployment. A lot of the married guys are in for some unpleasant family time. The sub will need excessively long maintenance. Whoever ordered this mission is an idiot.
Two crews, Blue and Gold, which alternate periods of service. Arduous but not herculean.
Great boats for sure. Over 40 years old and after refueling and modification from boomers in the early 2000s, still silently serving.
It WAS. It now carries cruise missiles. A LOT of them.
Calm down.
There are two crews. They typically rotate approximately every 95 days, with about 3 weeks of overlap for inport maintenance. The rotation/maintenance periods can be adjusted depending on world events and equipment casualties.
See posts 10 and 13.
Ah, I should read beyond the title, lol. Yes, rotating crews out to the deployed asset. That sounds like normal operations.
I only ever spent three days on an attack boat. That was more than enough tube time for me. I am not claustrophobic. I had no problems with the confined space. What would drive me nuts was listening to the hull popping, creaking, squealing, every time the sub dove or ascended. That creeped me out. Well, that and not being able to have any real daylight for days in my case, weeks or even months in their case.
So basically the boat was 700 days away from home port and it wasn’t a 700 day deployment for the crew.
“Whoever ordered this mission is an idiot.”
Agreed.
Great damage was done.
“There are two crews. “
Well Master Chief, that is true for boomers.
But for a conventional missile boat? It’s questionable.
SSNs have only one crew. Why not SSGNs?
ETCM had a good point. Subs have two crews. If they swapped them out on the regular schedule, then the only damage is delayed maintenance.
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