They missed the whole panic!!
But they will be sad when they see their retirement accounts :(
Geez imagine a zombie outbreak was kept from them?
What a revolting way to spend shore leave.
Hey any guys ever serve on a submarine and seen anyone lose it?
Do they have crates of xanax or whatever in case someone does?
I’d need tankers full.
Even according to this POS article by our domestic enemies, submariners who have departed in the last several weeks will know about Captain Trips.
Run silent. Run deep.
In other news,
I am pleased to report our comrades in the French navy have now adopted SONAR on all of their surface ships.
With this technology they will be able to see the other French ships.
Interesting article. Thank you.
I wonder if they’re playing “Waltzing Matilda” over and over again in their intercoms?
For all you “kids” out there (any one younger than 60) here’s the story:
“On the Beach” was a 60s antiwar movie. It was about a nuclear submarine crew stranded in Australia after nuclear war killed everyone in the northern hemisphere. The southern hemisphere population would soon follow. Hence, the tune “Waltzing Matilda”, glorifying suicide, was played over and over. The crew chose to return to the USA where a signal seeming to be Morse code was continuously heard sending random code letters. It turned out to be a Morse code key actuated by a window shade fluttering in the breeze, powered by a still running hydroelectric generator. The movie faded with “Waltzing Matilda” playing in the background.
Or...those subs are just ghost ships now, settled silently on the bottom of the ocean.
The guys on a submarine that is almost completely qualified submariners think this article is pretty absurd. Boats get daily updates and this is not something that would be kept from them.
These bubbleheads are living in a bubble!
What is a ballistic submarine squadron?
Ballistic means aimed and unguided, i.e., point it in some direction and hope for the best.
I was in the Air Force, not on a submarine and as far as I know, the Air Forced doesn’t even have any submarines. But I find it very hard to believe the officers wouldn’t share that information with the crew.
Having said that, I knew a guy who worked in navigation on a submarine and he told me that most of the crew didn’t really know where they were most of the time, even though it was posted on some sort of board every day.
Its been more than 40 years since I’ve been out but from what I can tell from various FB groups, they are aware of this.
“On the Beach”
Nuke subs underway have a way to communicate. Unconventional. Not high speed, but there.
They may not know details, but my guts tells me they know.
Old Patrick Henry blue crew nuke here: I remember getting back off a boomer patrol, grabbing a Newsweek and reading all about the 79 Three Mile Island meltdown...We didn’t have a clue!
I’m not sure that I could tour a sub, much less live in one. It takes a special kind of person to live in such a small space underwater.
I spent a week on an attack sub cross training. Submariners, as a group, have zero personality.. I mean these are really boring people. All of then except the skipper, I got along with him.