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To: John Jorsett

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

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Congressman Duncan Hunter has just appeared on the Hedgecock show (his district is in the San Diego area) and announced that he's coming to San Diego and will be meeting with officials at 5:30 pm Pacific tomorrow to get answers. He will be asking if there are security procedures in place and the illegals somehow got through, or if there's simply no procedures in effect at all.

The Navy has called back to the KOGO people and said that the illegals were working on a drydock 'near' a submarine, but not 'on' the submarine. They were employed by a company named Coastal Coatings.

116 posted on 01/28/2002 4:01:53 PM PST by John Jorsett
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To: John Jorsett
I spent more than a few nights in drydock on this base on the USS Chicago, a fast-attack sub now stationed in Hawaii. Here are a few facts that are not coming out on the radio:

When a sub is in drydock, the only way to gain entrance to the sub is through the drydock ship. You have to cross its quarterdeck, where an armed guard keeps watch. Then up 5 flights of stairs, halfway down the ship to the cross-over bridge to the top of then sub, where you have to get past the armed submarine quarterdeck watch (we called him the "topside" watch), and then down the hatch.

Many, many individuals work on the outside of the submarine from the basin below and never even see the top of the sub. Even if these guys were close to the sub, they were not anywhere close to anything sensitive, and could not have gotten access to it in any event.

125 posted on 01/28/2002 4:19:46 PM PST by meisterbrewer
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