Posted on 03/11/2020 2:39:05 PM PDT by Red Badger
Maybe because Hyman Rickover wasn’t really the genius and visionary that’s been described to us?
I don’t think that was it.
Military’s all over the world, not just the US, do not like their failures rehashed.
Like Custer........................
Sounds to me like they cracked or exploded.....................
“Maybe because Hyman Rickover wasn’t really the genius and visionary that’s been described to us?”
A really STUPID post!
A loss of even one is a loss to all. Thank you.
We saw the training film in subschool. Not classified.
You wonder was there a Soviet submarine running near the submarine base though....
What about Scorpion?
Will we get the skinny on that one too?
My dad helped design the reactor on that boat. It would not surprise me if he had read the report at some point. One of the things I got from his discussion at the time of the accident was a suspicion that it was deeper than was reported - it was pushing the limits. But he took anything else he knew to his grave.
I was just in high school that day. Even I felt terrible about it. That was just like the Challenger explosion. Given the circumstances, it is probably safe to assume the crush depth wasn’t as good as expected or there was a bad weld. Even now I want to know what it was that got her.
Glad to see you’re awake today.
Thresher and Scorpion were built to a ‘better, faster, cheaper’ spec over Rickover’s objections, which almost got him cashiered from the Navy. It has long been rumored that after the Thresher incident, the price of Rickover getting his way and SUBSAFE through was his not objecting to the deep classification of the report, which would have torpedoed *many* Navy brass careers. I will be looking forward to reading it.
As will I. Thanks for the helpful post.
I was in grade school when it happened, and in Junior High when Scorpion was lost.
“You wonder was there a Soviet submarine running near the submarine base though....”
NOPE!
OTOH, what you suggest could have the smell of the early days of McNamara and his whiz kids, too.
Sorry for the anti Scottish bigotry, but actually it is OK for me to say that.
hillary clinton sank the thresher.
I have heard rumors that Scorpion was lost due to an act of war. I hope we eventually learn the truth.
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