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I was on the Stoney J in the late 70's and early 80's.
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We crossed paths. I was in the Gold crew late 1981-summer 1984.
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Was on the Stoney J when she was backfitted to carry the Trident C-4, and we actually got to test fire the missles (with a dummy payload), as we were the first Lafayette class boat outfitted as such.
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Think you're misremembering. The Bluies fired the bird (Capt. Tuma.) I have a framed photo. We did everything but.
The DASO was my first at-sea time on Stoney-J; I remember it as day-after-day of not knowing what the hell was going on. I DO recall your division needed a specialized wiring harness for one of the RC cabinets, and having to tell the duty officer at NSC Charleston to authorize a Sunday-afternoon $17,000 Lear-jet charter to fly it into Patrick AFB so we could get underway with the range ship and do DASO ops on Monday. Came down to the pier by courier at dawn on Monday. I can still see your chief (real tall, skinny guy with glasses, really quiet, good guy) on the missile deck ripping open the box and holding the contacts about 1/4 inch from his glasses to make sure it was the right one, then bombing down the AMR1 hatch to install it for the pre-crit.