Lawmakers Vow A Fight To Save Sub Base

http://www.theday.com/eng/web/ ^ | 2/5/2005 | Anthony Cronin

[SmithL]

[ken5050]

Don't understand....assumng the base isn't neded..the state and local governments should be dying to get their hands on that WATERFRONT property for development...

[JOE6PAK]

Hope this guy can help.

[Roland]

The local government understands the financial impact of the base, and the sorry state of affairs they would be in without it. But based on the way service members are treated in the area I wouldn't shed a tear for them if it were to close.

[The Great RJ]

The irony if that liberal "dove" members of Congress from these northeastern states are all for cutting defense spending, but let the cuts affect a base in their backyard and they become hawks.

[El Gran Salseron]

ping and I suppose you'll want to ping your steely eyes list.

[El Gran Salseron]

Wow!

Seeing that tower sure evokes some powerful memories!.....first without then with the Stenke hood!

Thanks for posting it!

STS2 ( SS )

[El Gran Salseron]

"The local government understands the financial impact of the base, and the sorry state of affairs they would be in without it. But based on the way service members are treated in the area I wouldn't shed a tear for them if it were to close."

Amen, and worth repeating.

You, as I, remember how boat sailors were treated up there, huh?

[blam]

Went to submarine school there in 1961.

Nice area if you're not worried about Lyme Disease.

[blam]

"Seeing that tower sure evokes some powerful memories!.....first without then with the Stenke hood! "

Yup. See my post #10. (SS-368)

[teldon30]

Be from the south and a bubblehead....double whammy!

[Roland]

"You, as I, remember how boat sailors were treated up there, huh?"

I don't know how it was in the past, but thats the way it is now.

I guess some things never change.

[Doohickey]

Without the SUBASE, there wouldn't be anything to see on that side of the Thames.

[Doohickey]

Heres a "Please close craphole Groton and submariners won't dread shore duty anymore" PING!

[Doohickey]

On second thought, I guess they could annex it into the Mashantucket Pequot reservation so the Indians can have a riverboat too. May even keep them from buying up the rest of Ledyard.

[sargunner]

Rotten Groton PING...

[SmithL]

Thanks, I found it on the USS Torsk site: http://www.usstorsk.org

When I went through in `72, everyone used the Steinke Hoods.

[fastattacksailor]

Thanks for the ping!

Amazing how much they love the us when their a$$es depend on our money, ain't it?

[Doohickey]

Oh, gosh. It was a regular love-fest up there when the BRAC met in 1993. This from the Congressional district that kept sending Sam Gejdenson to Washington.