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To: edcoil

What a coinkidink! We were in the yard in Bremerton in 76-77 too. If memory serves we arrived in July or August ‘76. We didn’t get refueled; we did get a sonar refit and lots of other goodies, mostly weapons stuff and fire control. I was a nuke; I stood *plenty* of those fire watches as I had just arrived on the boat and was a “non-qual” at the time. As I recall the yardbirds did a lot of work unsupervised, even back aft — unless you call the fire watch “supervision”. :-) I remember one fire watch I stood *in* the reactor compartment, while the yard guy welded on the pressurizer in a really contorted position (for him). Some of those tig welding specialists were really, really good at what they did.


31 posted on 07/24/2012 3:16:30 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Love the cult, respect the leader, but I simply can't drink the koolaid and die.)
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To: Nervous Tick

I was on the Gurnard - SSN-662. Now I understand it has been recycled.


48 posted on 07/24/2012 3:54:15 PM PDT by edcoil (It is not over until I win.)
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