The Official Status Update Thread: Part 113 - The Internet Rises

[SkullDaddy.45]

Correction, things that also suck!
Being in a tube under the water with no soft socks!!

 

[actaeon277]

Correction, things that also suck!
Being in a tube under the water with no soft socks!!

Nothing is soft underwater.

 

[SkullDaddy.45]

My dad and older brother were navy. Older brother was on a sub till they found a heart condition. I guess they frown on that.

 

[actaeon277]

My dad and older brother were navy. Older brother was on a sub till they found a heart condition. I guess they frown on that.

No docs on subs.

 

[SkullDaddy.45]

No docs on subs.

He did something else for awhile, then they gave him a medical discharge. My uncle was on the USS Indianapolis. Dad was on the USS Yellowstone.

 

[actaeon277]

[video=youtube;DohRa9lsx0Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohRa9lsx0Q[/video]

 

[actaeon277]

He did something else for awhile, then they gave him a medical discharge. My uncle was on the USS Indianapolis. Dad was on the USS Yellowstone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(SSN-697)
I'm assuming this one, the sub.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)

 

[actaeon277]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(SSN-697)
I'm assuming this one, the sub.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)

If that was his, he was on a newer sub than mine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_Marshall_(SSBN-611)
On 12 January 1981,[SUP][3][/SUP] John Marshall was reclassified as an attack submarine and given hull number SSN-611. She began operations as an attack submarine from Pearl Harbor.

I went onboard 1988
On 1 May 1989, after conducting a variety of exercises with aircraft carrier battlegroups and other submarines, John Marshall departed for her third Mediterranean deployment. It was the first time a submarine had deployed anywhere in the world with two dry deck shelters on board, adding a unique flexibility and endurance to the fleet commander for special warfare operations. Embarked when John Marshall departed Norfolk was the largest special warfare detachment in the Atlantic or Mediterranean. During the 1989 deployment, John Marshall '​s response to contingency operations, providing forward area support of a unique nature on extremely short notice, as well as her success in antisubmarine warfare operations, was recognized in the award to John Marshall of the Meritorious Unit Commendation. John Marshall returned to Norfolk in September 1989.
John Marshall conducted three special warfare training exercises in the Caribbean Sea in 1990, including a highly successful exercise that featured the employment of submarine-launched mobile mines.
On 26 January 1991, John Marshall departed Norfolk for her fourth and final deployment to the Mediterranean. Equipped once again with two dry deck shelters, she operated in direct support of Operation Desert Storm and provided significant capability options to the United States Sixth Fleet commander. She visited Toulon, Gibraltar, and La Maddalena, returning to Norfolk on 22 June 1991.

 

[actaeon277]

Caught up.
And I'm gone

 

[SkullDaddy.45]

My uncle was only 18 when they sank it. His right leg was shoved 16 inches into his body. Floated for three days. The stories he would tell was just amazing.

 

[SkullDaddy.45]

 

[SkullDaddy.45]

 

[Shadow]

GOOD Morning INGO !

 

[GLOCKMAN23C]

Drive thru .

 

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Beep Beep !!!

 

[SkullDaddy.45]

 

[SkullDaddy.45]

Sleep is for sissies!!

 

[Shadow]

Sleep is for sissies!!

GDR !!!! There will be time for sleep when were dead !!

 

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