Tales of the Wandering Reactor

[RoadKingLarry]

The National Geographic's in my doctor office all have articles about the Titanic.  Not from when they found it, but from when it sank....

That's more interesting than the issues of Newsweek with articles about Billy Carter that are in my Dr's office.

[Harold Tuttle]

I used to have a couple walls of every NGM issue at my disposal

I even thwarted the destruction of a few rare ones by asking the right questions of the staff librarians

[richyoung]

They're called nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. Join the Navy. 

He promised to bring it back in one piece, so that lets out the Russian navy....

[HeroHog]

What year?

Lets see... around 77-79 or so? I was on her up till she went on the to be decommissioned list and left before they started stripping her down.

[280plus]

The next three years brought Tringa more routine duty supporting Atlantic Fleet submarines, testing diving equipment, training divers, and escorting newly built submarines on their trial cruises. The ship departed the western Atlantic only once during that period, in July 1975, to participate in a series of oceanographic surveys conducted from the submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. She returned to New London early the following November and operated along the eastern seaboard until 30 September 1977 when she was decommissioned at the Submarine Base, New London, Connecticut. Her name was struck from the Navy List concurrently with decommissioning.

from wiki...

I was west coast USS Buchanan DDG-14 the same period. Damn, you're old! 

[HeroHog]

53 until April. Not THAT old! Yup, that's her. We did a lot of sea trials, we were the target for target practice. Towed the NR-1. Were berthed 2 piers down from the Nautilus when she was decommissioned and I left as she was to be stripped and decommissioned herself. We were at the Grotton Nuke Sub base and we watched them build the HUGE new subs at EB (Electric Boat) through the Big Eyes (BIG Binoculars on a swivel mount) on the flying bridge.

We had a lot of divers on board and 2 decompression chambers in addition to the rescue diving bell. We did salvage work as well and sent divers down to get sonar transponders off of a sunken ship one cruise. We did go to Florida each year to Ft Lauderdale on Spring Break. That was pretty cool. We just HATED that Long @ss sea watch when we stopped at Norfolk on the way down and back.

[RoadKingLarry]

We've walked a lot of the same sidewalks and sailed quite a bit of the same waters.
I spent a little over 4 years at rotten Grotton as an instructor teaching ESM systems before I went to my last boat out of Norfolk.

I don't think Norfolk was all that long of a trip in and out. Of course I was always busy going in and out of port. Being piloting party and secondary plot coordinator. Wasn't as quick as hitting Ballast Point at San Diego but not near as bad as making the trip in and out of Mare Island.

[280plus]

53 till May but like I heard someone else say the other day, "I'm still 12 in my head." 

Sounds like more interesting duty than tin cans. I spent most of my time either bored out of my mind or trying not to get caught doing things I wasn't supposed to be doing. 

I was an MM in both A gang and in the hole. I still do A/C but not so much R anymore.

2 wespacs. Maybe a little black action against some muslim insurgents in 79. They never officially called it real but some of us new otherwise. You get to know a lot of key people when you're in A Gang.

[HeroHog]

Diesel Engineman here (Snipe). They wanted me to take MMN (Machinist Mate, Nuke) but I was interested in something that would translate into a civilian job when I mustered out. I got to pick my boot (Orlando baby!) and made my 1st stripe after C school in Great Lakes.

[RoadKingLarry]

I went to boot in Orland as well. Started out as surface ET. Then one fateful day the career counselor aksed a couple of us that were top of the BE&E  class if we wanted to volunteer for subs. That was in early january and I was due to finish BE&E and head to Great Lakes the first part of Feb.
I was like all "Subs huh, yeah uh no thanks, really" then he casually mentioned that my A school would be in Pensacola. The rest is history.

[KD5NRH]

No problem in space 

"I'm picking up a lot of radiation...they're burning without core containment. Well, that's kwong-chee duh, that's suicide..."

[Perd Hapley]

My first thought as well. 

[seeker_two]

My first thought as well. 

About time you had one......












 

[Tallpine]

53 until April. Not THAT old! Yup, that's her. We did a lot of sea trials, we were the target for target practice. Towed the NR-1. Were berthed 2 piers down from the Nautilus when she was decommissioned and I left as she was to be stripped and decommissioned herself. We were at the Grotton Nuke Sub base and we watched them build the HUGE new subs at EB (Electric Boat) through the Big Eyes (BIG Binoculars on a swivel mount) on the flying bridge.

We had a lot of divers on board and 2 decompression chambers in addition to the rescue diving bell. We did salvage work as well and sent divers down to get sonar transponders off of a sunken ship one cruise. We did go to Florida each year to Ft Lauderdale on Spring Break. That was pretty cool. We just HATED that Long @ss sea watch when we stopped at Norfolk on the way down and back.

Too bad ... that would have made a great pirate boat