Posted on 09/18/2017 9:31:40 AM PDT by Rebelbase
[snip] An image posted to a Pentagon media site and tweeted by Scottish journalist Ian Keddie shows the USS Jimmy Carter, a Seawolf-class nuclear-powered submarine, returning to her home port in Washington Tuesday flying the American flag alongside the unmistakable pirate skull and crossed bones, known as the Jolly Roger.
The 450-foot-long vessel is one of three in its class and is specially modified to conduct some of America’s most covert underwater operations. That fact alone — as Keddie points out — makes the appearance of the black and white flag significant. The Carter, according to photos posted in April, also flew the Jolly Roger returning from its last patrol.
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Agreed - and with your bet too
You would know if you read “Blind Man’s Bluff”.
“at-sea maintenance”
Not on a sub exterior.
Maybe it crossed the equator for the first time.
I doubt it.
It’s been in service since 2005.....................
Magnetic sensor if the cable is ordinary wires, photo-multiplier tube if it is optical.
It would be a trick to avoid the equator that long. ;-D
This is not the first time she has flown the Jolly Roger upon return...................
She is just plain pretty! I bet it can succeed at anything they try. I wish I were young again. I’d choose Navy subs next time around. The Army was OK, but subs tug at me.
I have seen these subs close up.
They are HUGE.........................
Those are even worse
I can tell you are a vet. We used to have streamers on our company guidons at Ft Campbell celebrating 101 AWOL free days. The early 80s was a time of change in the military as Reagan brought it back, some soldiers didnt care for that and took off.
I was on a boomer. Our job was hiding with missiles, although we had the ability to protect ourselves if attacked. Fast attack subs have capabilities that are way above our pay grade. Having special forces, expert scuba divers and weapons, their abilities are beyond your imagination.
Let me tell you about sub duty, we had (of which I’ve never had before) beef wellington and I never had lobster before sub duty. I came from the inner city from a large poor Irish family but granted a fabulous Catholic education which qualified me for subs and earning my “Dolphins” 1st trip out of Holy Loch. The sub brotherhood did good for me because it trained me for the inner city fire department brotherhood of which I grew up. God truly has blessed me with an absolutely fabulous life. I could explain further but this is too long as it is.
Bless you all.
And who was the rumpranger congresscritter whose boyfriend ran a homo prostitution thing from the critters apartment?
That would be another bad choice.
One of my friends was a top dog at Mare Island re converting Boomers to do what you pointed out.
That was a long time ago! We can only imagine what our converted Boomers can do, under water, on top of the water and in the air/space with their missile power.
One of my CO’s had been a submariner, and with some shrewd trades, we ended up with the food you listed.
Re training and selection, I have always been pro former military.
For decades, I have pushed Navy vets, Boomers white hats, Carrier Deck guys, anyone who served a long cruise or more, Nav Sec guys to people wanting to hire a good person for about any job. For security jobs to protect plants, offices and other sites, hire a Marine, who stood guard duty.
Bwarny Fwank.
It is not USS Harvey Milk. It is USNS Harvey Milk T-AO-206.
She is manned by a civil service crew and commanded by a Coast Guard Licensed Master. The ship carries no weapons. She does carry a 12-15 man Navy detachment consisting of radiomen and signalmen headed by a Lt. or Ltjg. with a SCPO or CPO as #2.
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