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Kaptlt.Endrass · 08-14-22, 10:32 PM

Hello again folks; been quite a while.

I've been away due to starting my career in the Navy, and a quite hectic first sea duty (two deployments in as many years). I'm glad to be back here, and I started picking up SH3 again while underway, which inevitably led me back here.

Hoping I've not missed any of this fine boat's crew, and figured I'd submit my name to the old man for roll call and see how both Subsim and her crew are doing. I look forward to hearing good news from you all, and wish you happy hunting!

Aktungbby · 08-14-22, 11:03 PM

Onkel Neal · 08-14-22, 11:11 PM

It's about time you showed your face again! Can we have a summary of your deployments?

Kaptlt.Endrass · 08-15-22, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

It's about time you showed your face again! Can we have a summary of your deployments?

Aye, I could do that.

2020 was a very interesting one...we left prior to COVID being a thing, and at some point were detached from our strike group to follow an adversary task force that was going way further than that nation's navy had ever done so before. So we went one way. Then back the other.

And back the other.

And back the other way. Stopped in Guam for 3 days liberty, which ended up being one and a half, since our target decided to turn back again and we had to be underway first thing to meet them. Followed them to a turnover point at the IDL, where we swapped off with a DDG out of Pearl Harbor, to which we then pulled into for a week. Around that time, COVID was started to get noticed, but still not big yet.

We left Hawaii with big plans; we were being sent to do counter-narcotics in the South Pacific, and we had been told that ports such as Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Columbia, Chile, and more were on the plate, with the possibility of going around to Brazil and even a chance to swing around Cape Horn. Right around then, the world went into lockdown though, and all of those visits were cancelled, with only one-day fuel stops here and there when the tanker had to return to the US. Weren't allowed off the ship in most ports.

Most of that 9-month deployment was spent literally sitting and spinning, waiting for drug boats that never came. We were the flank guard for USS Pinckney, who really did most of the work (29 busts compared to our 3). That was also the deployment where the ship caught COVID, and we had to race back to a US port to quarantine and clean the ship. A lot of that deployment became a political statement to the world, sort of 'Hey look, this ship got crippled by COVID but they're already back out there!' sort of thing.

Our 2021 deployment, though, was much more fun, if much shorter. We did single ship ops in-around Southeast Asian hotspots, got very close to China and their newest (at the time) carrier, things like that. I actually got to do my job, which was amazing, and even got to go to Japan for a week, which is an experience I won't forget! Went all around where I could, toured battleship Mikasa, and almost got to climb Mt. Fuji, though a typhoon canceled the trip the day prior. All in all, I absolutely loved the second deployment.

Just recently came out of the yards and we're getting the ship spun up and the new crew trained. I'll be going to shore here soon, so I've been busy getting the new folk ready to replace me.

Catfish · 08-15-22, 01:44 AM

^ Thanks for the heads up, and welcome back

Jimbuna · 08-15-22, 02:34 AM

Welcome back matey

08-14-22, 10:32 PM	#1
Kaptlt.Endrass Sonar Guy Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: No Longer On A Big Grey Floaty Thing Posts: 395 Downloads: 116 Uploads: 0	Back Online Hello again folks; been quite a while. I've been away due to starting my career in the Navy, and a quite hectic first sea duty (two deployments in as many years). I'm glad to be back here, and I started picking up SH3 again while underway, which inevitably led me back here. Hoping I've not missed any of this fine boat's crew, and figured I'd submit my name to the old man for roll call and see how both Subsim and her crew are doing. I look forward to hearing good news from you all, and wish you happy hunting! __________________ "That flag and I are twins, born in the same hour from the same womb of destiny. We cannot be parted in life or in death; so long as we float, we shall float together." As much as I dislike it sometimes, I'm a tin can sailor, through and through.

08-14-22, 11:03 PM	#2
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,023 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Welcome back! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

08-14-22, 11:11 PM	#3
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,385 Downloads: 541 Uploads: 224	It's about time you showed your face again! Can we have a summary of your deployments? __________________ SUBSIM - 26 Years on the Web

08-15-22, 01:44 AM	#5
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,767 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	^ Thanks for the heads up, and welcome back __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

08-15-22, 02:34 AM	#6
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,615 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Welcome back matey __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!