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To: Castlebar

How is it inaccurate?


35 posted on 02/27/2010 9:43:11 AM PST by rwa265 (Christ my Cornerstone)
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Where Boomers patrol is one of the most closely guarded military secrets. The whole idea is to not let a possible adversary know where they are patrolling - normally port visits or routine surfacings are a no-no.


46 posted on 02/27/2010 9:51:39 AM PST by Timocrat
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To: rwa265
How is that inaccurate?!?!

A submarine makes several stops during a deployment.

No. A submarine leaving Norfolk or Pearl is far more typically expected to complete its mission completely undetected and return home. Stops in ports are for liberty, not for refueling or repairs, and they are allowed, if at all, AFTER the deployment mission, NOT DURING.

they would make arrangements to replace a pregnant women during one of their stops several weeks before her due date.

The idea of a woman in her third trimester, aboard a submarine, boggles the mind.

If they are in the middle of the ocean and there is a need for immediate medical attention, they would meet up with the nearest surface ship.

Emergency medevacs are accomplished, on EXTREMELY RARE occasions, in matters of life and death, because Emergency medevacs at sea are life threatening in-and-of themselves, and they destroy the submarines undetected staus.

I am a little more raw about this topic than most topics. Three years on a fast-attack will do that to you.

As for the attitude that this is no different than forcing the Golf Club at Augusta to admit women:

I would expect that from the current administration or from the faculty at Berkley. I am surpeirsed to see it on this forum.

58 posted on 02/27/2010 11:00:31 AM PST by Castlebar
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