It’s gratifying to hear from people who follow this blog from a thousand fathoms down. So here’s to you, crew of SSN 770, USS Tucson! Peace through superior firepower!!

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  1. Intrepid warriors, patrolling the far reaches of Neptune's domain in regions of the ocean where light dimly reaches.

  2. Respect.

    A few years back, 1980s, a friend talked about his time in subs during the last big one (WW2). I asked, stupidly, "Wasn't that dangerous?" He replied, "Not any more than being a rating in a big ship, you're about the same depth under water."

    Neat guy, fought on the WRONG side of the Spanish Civil war, but made it back to sanity.

    • LSP, it wasn’t until I read LTC Cooper’s stories on the “The Epic of Alcázar” and “Swordnotes” that I knew what was the right side of that war. It was his view that Francisco Franco was a Roman Catholic first, a Spaniard second, a soldier third, and a fascist fourth.

      The other side, the Republican forces, were pure atheistic communists

      The Old Guy

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