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To: ought-six
But “silent service” has to do with running submerged; it has nothing to do with not talking.

That just shows you what you know.

125 posted on 04/29/2022 6:25:13 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

“That just shows you what you know.”

I guess more than you; and I wasn’t even in the navy! Silent Service is an old term and refers to the submarine service because running submerged they are supposedly silent. But, of course, they are not. Hell, when I was a kid in the 1950s there was even a TV show called “Silent Service.”

It’s pretty interesting — not to say sad — that an old Air Force veteran knows more about the term “Silent Service” than someone whose screen name is Navy Patriot who claims to be a submariner. Look it up, Sparky. “Silent Service” refers to running submerged.

Hell, I did it for you:

“’Silent Service’ is the Navy’s submarine force. The moniker ‘Silent Service’ comes from the way the force operates, according to the USO. Submarines can submerge more than 600 feet below the ocean’s surface for up to four months at a time, constantly patrolling and working classified missions, which means they can’t be seen or heard, but are always silently under the sea doing important work.”

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/national/military-news/jacksonville-natives-serve-us-navys-silent-service/77-a025b3ae-7b67-4d1a-b820-f845a7eda6ba

You can also find information at “history.navy.mil”

The term Silent Service was widely used as far back as WWII.

Give it up, dude.


156 posted on 04/29/2022 6:43:39 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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