A Really Big Hole In The Ground
For some folks, this photo just looks like a lot of barrels. For others, it means something completely different.
(Off topic: Found out that the author I was going all fanboy over had a dad who was on Guardfish in Vietnam. That was the boat I qualified helms/planes/lookout/etc. during a Christmas break as a midshipman, and it was a great experience with some amazing people and adventures on a “rode hard and put up wet” 594. I found this photo on the Guardfish reunion website.)
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July 10th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Would the be the engines of those ships, or the…well, they’re not anything nuclear…the engines/boilers of those fine ships, sir? Please excuse the ignorance.
Veitas et Fidelis Semper
July 10th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Wow, the hole is actually starting to fill up ain’t it? How many reactors we’ve gone through in our short lifetime, eh?
Subsunk
July 11th, 2007 at 12:17 am
Was the last ENS to report aboard the GUARDFISH. Stern to stern with TINOSA in the graving docks at PSNS.
July 12th, 2007 at 3:17 am
Yup, I’ve seen other pics of that site, from a different POV. Makes me sad. A lot of those boats had a lot of life left in them. “Part of our Peace Dividend”, as Doug Shaftoe smartassedly said in the novel.
I do wonder, just how hot are those sub-slices? Can you enlighten us about that without betraying any confidences or actual National Secrets?
I mean, are people just being silly, and scaredy-cats, or do we really need to bury those things for a while?