How many of you actually served ON a sub?
 

Hello everyone, :|\\

My instincts have had me to present 2 questions, one here another, of the same ilk on the SH3 threads.

My questions for YOU, the simmers:
Who if ANY of you actually served on a WWII or Cold war or Nuclear (modern) sub?

I ask this because some posters, most, seem to know what the heck they say when speaking of sub tech or warfare strategy issues and BTW...for the bitchers out there, thank UBIsoft for producing a subsim whose genre would have probably have died out in the early 90's. Thank you UBIsoft!

Slowly sinking into the Atlantic..........hellas1 :|\\ Until I post again............
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I served on a sub and am currently still on Active Duty in the US Navy (13 years strong) I have served on USS PROVIDENCE, USS BOSTON, USS HAMPTON, and USS SAN JUAN, currently working with NECC (Navy Expeditionary Combat Command) out of Cheatham Annex Virginia. (Sucky Job) Can't wait for April of next year when I can go back to a boat, trying for the USS VIRGINIA

USS Grayling SSN 646 1989-1995

USS Birmingham SSN-695 - MM1/SS Nuc - 1986-1992
...and some other stuff for a total of 11 years USN:arrgh!:

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." - C. Dickens

USS Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685), USS Greenling (SSN 614), a permit class boat

I retired after 20. Boats were: USS Boston, USS Sunfish, USS Pasadena.

Frank
:cool:

I never served on a sub but one one my uncles did in the old Soviet Union(Cold War):yep: . He was the accustics guy.
I've only been lucky enough to walk around on board of the Red Scorpion russian sub.Pretty cool stuff but in reality i'd rather fly a fighter plane instead of sailing on a submarine :D

Surface guy.:oops: Fire Controlman.

Hey it's not like theres a Destroyer command 2 :hmm:

only in my dreams

For those of you guys that did sevice, what do you think of SH-4?

Tell you what, went to the mod forum, picked the ones that help or fix the game in it's present state, LUV it after using the mods. I am sick and tired of all thse people BITCHING endlessly about this and that. I play the game [thanks to to the MOD folks] to no end with NO PROBLEMS.

I am sick and tired of reading hundreds of posts of people ragging.

It's a good game [after the mod fixes]. Cut them some slack for a little while. Patience is a VIRTUE.

SubSim.com will see a contribution soon from me. Asshats bitch and moan and NEVER contribute nothing other than their rants.

Remind me to post a picture of an asshat, if you share my feelings.

USS Segundo (SS398), 1968-70 (DBF) Last of the Diesel Boats
TM2 (SS) (SD)

USS George Bancroft, SSBN 643 (Gold). 1980-1986. MT2 (SS)

USS Helena (SSN-725)

i was the WEP for one tour, then seperated due to injury..

If I had served on one then the Navy has begun recruiting minors... every day it seems more likely though...:roll:

Don't count on that :roll: We're still downsizing personnel.

I was Royal Navy, a Cold War Warrior, surface ships, mostly minesweepers. I did do an underwater warfare course that got me a couple of days seagoing experience in subs, an "A" boat and a "T" boat.

I have also visited the "Vesikko", the Finnish Type IIA, the "Alliance" at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum and the "Lionfish" at battleship Cove, MA. I hope to get to see the U 505 in a couple of months time.

P&O FERRY - Dover to Calais - 7.30 to 8.45am :88)

Fish heads ... enjoying your tin can? :up:

Airborne for me, whats cooler then climbing into a perfectly good airplane, and jumping out? :p , is it true that every one hotbunks?

I wanted to join the German Navy when I was conscripted, but they turned me down (to tall at 6' 1". Submariners have to be short :lol: ), so I ended up as an AA gunner (Gepard SPAAG). But we used periscopes to lock on targets, does that count? :lol:;)

As former tall ship sailor (ship's company of Gorch Fock II), I think I was the exact opposite of a submariner:rotfl:
Lots of rooms (sometimes 40 meters below you), lots of spit and polish and absolutely no connection to real warfare...
But I've visited some type 206 subs (212s were still on the drawing board in 1999) and known some submariners. Everybody tried to visit subs when Gorch Fock was drydocked the Navy Arsenal in Kiel. Great guys, those submariners.