[technomage]

Holy Cr$#

That is a LOT of damage. I would like to know what really happened and HOW it happened! These things are expensive!!

[Danae]

"Holy Cr$# That is a LOT of damage. I would like to know what really happened and HOW it happened! These things are expensive!!.

Now this is a rather hmmn... ignorant comment. The life that was lost is both priceless and irreplacable. The cost of the ship is due to the fact that the lives of the personel manning it are just as priceless. The years of training and experience necessary to living and working aboard one of these ships is worth tens of Millions of dollars. That being said, the boat saved them in turn. If she had not been so beautifully designed, built, and cared for, she would be at the bottom. She served her purpose, she saved their lives.
All in all, the men aboard any US Submarine is worth the cost of the ship hundreds of times over.
IMHO, every man abord that boat deserves an Admiral's Commendation. The fact that that boat is in dry dock at all is something of a major miracle, and that was created in whole by the personel that saved her. The cost of the Boat is nothing compared to the value of the crew.
God Bless the Crew of the San Francisco!!!

[Cobra64]

I would like to know what really happened and HOW it happened! These things are expensive!!

So are American lives.

When my Dad was a destroyer commander in WWII, he gave orders to re-route that ship to pick up downed pilots. It cost thousands to reroute course to pick up our airmen. Further, the rendezvous was at risk, so he had to steam at greater knots for the rendezvous to reconnoiter with the battle group.

If he had stayed in for another year, he'd have been an Admiral. My Dad was a leader of men, defended America, but was not interested in a 30 year career in the Navy. As it turned out, our steel company delivered hundreds of thousands of tons of steel to Bath, ME Brooklyn, NY, and Electric Boat, CT shipyards.

Rule of thumb here, remember, there are a lot of us old farts who have been down many roads, and many personal and accurate historical stories and events to relate.

IMOHO

[Max Combined]

"I would like to know what really happened and HOW it happened!"

Read the article. It is explained there.