I can't describe the feeling of being sound asleep and hearing the 1mc blare out, "Now man battle stations missile" 2X's
By the time your up putting on your poopy suit and shoes ... the captain is saying, "We have just recieved a message from the President of the United States to launch missiles"
The captain didn't always say, "This is a drill"
So by the time I got to sonar (which was always rigged for red and seperate from the control room) we didn't really know.
If I was on watch when it went down, someone would always say, "Is this another BS drill?" or "Why don't they do this when I'm on watch" or "Hey, that was a good movie"
We didn't really know ... we were drilled pretty regularly too by the Joint Chief's of Staff and by Norad in Colorado and our log's had to correspond with their logs when we came back in.
Gentlemen it was the cold war ... the other side was doing the same thing. We were ready to nuke them, we were volunteer's, we were paid professionals and we really didn't care about politic's out at sea ...
The cold war was simple ... be ready to end it all if they fire first ... I'm out of the loop now, but something tells me a whole lot of people took our place.
