“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.”
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.
Give me the number of how many United States Navy Qualified Submarine Sailors have you spoken with in your entire life, wise guy.
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.”
They are not so silent they can not be heard from hundreds of miles away by SOSUS sensitive passive sonar. The twin screw Russian boats would leave a distinctive signature.