Finally Have My Own Command

Ships-R-Us · 01-17-10, 04:05 PM

Welcome aboard SSN-638..I'm also new here and believe this is a great game, and a magnificent site. For the record, in May 1968 my ship DD883, ComDesron20, was called from the med to look for debris when the USS Scorpion SSN-589 was lost. For one week we searched for our lost mates and a debris field. Absolutely nothing was ever found.

HMCS · 01-17-10, 06:18 PM

Welcome aboard. I desperately wanted to get my dolphins when I was in the Naval Reserve, but listened to other voices (GF). Ah, the choices we make.

SH4 gets even better with the terrific mods available. Check out TMO and Real Fleet Boat. It only gets better, QM.

Tweety · 01-17-10, 08:23 PM

Welcome aboard SSN_638,

Tweety

FIREWALL · 01-17-10, 08:50 PM

Welcome Aboard

ReallyDedPoet · 01-17-10, 10:09 PM

Welcome to SUBSIM

Ships-R-Us · 01-17-10, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Shipsrus

Welcome aboard SSN-638..I'm also new here and believe this is a great game, and a magnificent site. For the record, in May 1968 my ship DD883, ComDesron20, was called from the med to look for debris when the USS Scorpion SSN-589 was lost. For one week we searched for our lost mates and a debris field. Absolutely nothing was ever found.

To clarify why I quoted as such. I have been aboard many commissioned subs after leaving the Navy through the course of my employment. I have met hundreds of bubbleheads, and have come to know them as a special breed of sailor, with a character and steadfastness to duty that surpasses many. I personally know family members from those aboard the USS Thresher when she went down.

To make it simple. I have the highest respect for submariners. I never served on a sub, only worked on them and with many of the former SRO's and RO's for many years. My hats off to the silent service

les green01 · 01-18-10, 12:17 AM

welcome aboard

lorka42 · 01-18-10, 12:43 AM

Welcome aboard, I, too, am a bit of a newb, at least to manual targeting. been playing this game for a grip, and got back into it when i found it in an old box. I find the manual targeting difficult, yet, ultimately more rewarding than point and shoot.

jerm138 · 01-18-10, 01:38 AM

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I find the manual targeting difficult, yet, ultimately more rewarding than point and shoot.

Targeting is the heart and soul of this game. It would be devastatingly boring to always use auto.

Now I just wish they had a button for "Range... MARK... Bearing... MARK" that would update the enemy's location on the plot based on the data you give it.

Contact Updates is too much information and too accurate, but manually plotting is too time consuming to do in realtime while planning an attack... that's why skippers had people to do it for them as they called out the range and bearing.

Someday... someday...

SSN_638 · 01-18-10, 01:45 AM

Thanks for the hearty welcome, fellas

! Actually, for the last few months of my service I was a skimmer

. The Whale was headed into the yards and what use is a QM there? The USS Sunbird ASR-15 lost a QM unexpectedly just before a deployment to the UK area, and I got assigned TAD to fill in. I wasn't happy about it, but I did my duty. Unfortunately, The 'Bird could have stood in for that minesweeper in the "Caine Mutiny". The Capt'n was every bit as nuts as Queeg, and in 35' seas tried to come about and we damned near capsized. I was on the bridge wing on the side that rolled down. Between that and 3 more weeks of 35' to 65' seas with systems on the ship failing (gyrocompass, radar, steering from the pilot house, etc.) it screwed me up pretty bad. I learned in April from a VA shrink that I've had PTSD for 33 years. SH4 has turned out to not only be a whole lot of fun being a bubblehead again, it's a great way to relieve stress

!

Anyway, I made some good friends on the Bird. You skimmers out there are plenty okay. The crew of the Bird was mostly a great bunch of guys stuck with a crazy skipper on an old, obsolete ship.

Good Hunting

Ships-R-Us · 01-18-10, 04:00 AM

SSN-638, you are correct about the game being therapeutic. It fits different people in different ways for a variety of reasons.
Welcome aboard again..........

Andrew82 · 01-18-10, 04:09 AM

Welcome aboard!

Ships-R-Us · 01-18-10, 04:10 AM

When you mentioned the Whale it jarred my memory. I worked on your boat untill March/1978 while it was in the yards. If any other submariners were in the yards at Kittery, ME between 1975 and early 1978 I worked on your sub. At the time I knew the SRO's and RO's very well on your boat.

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1976–1978
Whale resumed normal United States East Coast operations until 9 September 1976 when she entered the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at Kittery, Maine, for a refueling overhaul. That overhaul concluded on 7 July 1978. Whale then spent the remainder of 1978 in refresher training for the purpose of obtaining certification throughout the full range of her weapons system.

01-17-10, 06:18 PM	#2
HMCS Sonar Guy Join Date: May 2005 Location: Squaresville, daddy-O. Posts: 394 Downloads: 186 Uploads: 0	Welcome aboard. I desperately wanted to get my dolphins when I was in the Naval Reserve, but listened to other voices (GF). Ah, the choices we make. SH4 gets even better with the terrific mods available. Check out TMO and Real Fleet Boat. It only gets better, QM. __________________ "Turning enemy ships into marine habitat since 1986!" Mods Loaded:TMO 2.2, RSRDC, MaxOptics, Strategic Map Symbols, Stop The Shouting OR: RFB, RSRDC, Maxoptics, SCAF, Strategic Map Symbols and the sanity-saving "stop the shouting".

01-17-10, 08:50 PM	#4
FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	Welcome Aboard __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ???

01-17-10, 10:09 PM	#5
ReallyDedPoet Canadian Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada. The one and only, East Coast Posts: 10,895 Downloads: 946 Uploads: 5	Welcome to SUBSIM __________________ Back in the Day

01-18-10, 12:17 AM	#7
les green01 Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Freeman Missouri Posts: 1,784 Downloads: 1416 Uploads: 0	welcome aboard __________________ I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done. Audie Murphy

01-18-10, 01:45 AM	#10
SSN_638 Watch Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Vermont, USA Posts: 21 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Thanks for the hearty welcome, fellas ! Actually, for the last few months of my service I was a skimmer . The Whale was headed into the yards and what use is a QM there? The USS Sunbird ASR-15 lost a QM unexpectedly just before a deployment to the UK area, and I got assigned TAD to fill in. I wasn't happy about it, but I did my duty. Unfortunately, The 'Bird could have stood in for that minesweeper in the "Caine Mutiny". The Capt'n was every bit as nuts as Queeg, and in 35' seas tried to come about and we damned near capsized. I was on the bridge wing on the side that rolled down. Between that and 3 more weeks of 35' to 65' seas with systems on the ship failing (gyrocompass, radar, steering from the pilot house, etc.) it screwed me up pretty bad. I learned in April from a VA shrink that I've had PTSD for 33 years. SH4 has turned out to not only be a whole lot of fun being a bubblehead again, it's a great way to relieve stress ! Anyway, I made some good friends on the Bird. You skimmers out there are plenty okay. The crew of the Bird was mostly a great bunch of guys stuck with a crazy skipper on an old, obsolete ship. Good Hunting __________________ Bob "Willy" Williams QM2(SS) There are two kinds of vessels - submarines and targets...

01-17-10, 04:05 PM	#1
Ships-R-Us Commander Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 452 Downloads: 134 Uploads: 0	Welcome aboard SSN-638..I'm also new here and believe this is a great game, and a magnificent site. For the record, in May 1968 my ship DD883, ComDesron20, was called from the med to look for debris when the USS Scorpion SSN-589 was lost. For one week we searched for our lost mates and a debris field. Absolutely nothing was ever found.

01-17-10, 08:23 PM	#3
Tweety Planesman Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Canada Posts: 188 Downloads: 157 Uploads: 0	Welcome aboard SSN_638, Tweety

01-18-10, 12:43 AM	#8
lorka42 Planesman Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 190 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 5	Welcome aboard, I, too, am a bit of a newb, at least to manual targeting. been playing this game for a grip, and got back into it when i found it in an old box. I find the manual targeting difficult, yet, ultimately more rewarding than point and shoot.

01-18-10, 04:00 AM	#11
Ships-R-Us Commander Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 452 Downloads: 134 Uploads: 0	SSN-638, you are correct about the game being therapeutic. It fits different people in different ways for a variety of reasons. Welcome aboard again..........

01-18-10, 04:09 AM	#12
Andrew82 Torpedoman Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 113 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Welcome aboard! __________________ TMO 2.2

01-18-10, 04:10 AM	#13
Ships-R-Us Commander Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 452 Downloads: 134 Uploads: 0	Overhaul and refeul When you mentioned the Whale it jarred my memory. I worked on your boat untill March/1978 while it was in the yards. If any other submariners were in the yards at Kittery, ME between 1975 and early 1978 I worked on your sub. At the time I knew the SRO's and RO's very well on your boat. Quote: 1976–1978 Whale resumed normal United States East Coast operations until 9 September 1976 when she entered the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at Kittery, Maine, for a refueling overhaul. That overhaul concluded on 7 July 1978. Whale then spent the remainder of 1978 in refresher training for the purpose of obtaining certification throughout the full range of her weapons system.

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