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Originally Posted by Mudrik
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This really caught me out at first. I'd expended all my ammo and headed for the nearest friendly port (let's face it, they're all thousands of NM apart) to end my mission, only to find that all I could do was resupply and then head for my home base (yet another few thousand MN).
Surely it would have been, and should be, possible to end a patrol at any friendly port?
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Negitive, no patrol was ever considered over until everyone got to go home (what ever that home may have been)  |
So, does that mean that there are thousands of service man and women who have never finished a patrol because their comrades never made it home from the fields of Flanders, the jungles of Vietnam or the deserts of the Middle east? I think not. |
It's one thing to finish a patrol, and quite another to be KIA or MIA (Which it seems your speaking of, correct me if I'm wrong). No service man or woman was, or is finished with their patrol or mission/deployment until they return home. Pulling into a friendly port or returning to a friendly city, town or base dose not constitute finishing your deployment/patrol. You may finish a mission, but not the deployemnt (which was what a submarine patrol was). Speaking from experience here (I served onboard submarines for 8 years, during conflict and peace), we may have finished a mission, and pulled into a friendly port for a short R&R period and a quick refit, but our deployment wasn't finished until we got back home.