(Nuclear) war, what is it good for?

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by ET2SN

Its a big deal considering where I live but Omaha is not a Counter Force target. Offutt AFB is,

When I was stationed at Offutt, there was some comfort that we had an estimated 3 SS-18's targeting the base.


At least we would not suffer.

[ET2SN]

Originally Posted by Platapus

When I was stationed at Offutt, there was some comfort that we had an estimated 3 SS-18's targeting the base.


At least we would not suffer.

Did you ever check out the military park in Omaha near the river? A friend of mine from the USS Bremerton and I wear invited out to see if we could fix the periscope on the training sub. What happened was that someone was able to park a bunch of jets and other hardware in the park but then they left it all alone for years and years.
They wanted to somehow convert the training sub into a public display when most of it had rusted out to the point of being dangerous.
Still, they had a nice collection of Navy jets from the 1950's and 1960's.

That wound up being an exercise where big plans and no money collided with harsh reality. The scope barrel and all of its internal parts had welded themselves together a long, long time ago.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by ET2SN

Did you ever check out the military park in Omaha near the river?

When I was there they had the USS Hazard (AM-240) and the USS Marlin (SST-2). But I moved out of Nebraska in 94.



I don't know what happened to the park during the big flood though.

[ET2SN]

Originally Posted by Platapus

the USS Marlin (SST-2).

That be the one.
It was based out of Groton and was mostly used during WWII, as I recall.
The basic idea was to give future OOD's some experience with surfacing and diving, I think it was limited to only 2 or 3 days at sea?
At some point the whole thing was painted black, maybe to make it look more modern?

Either way, by 2011 it was basically scrap. You could walk back to the engine room and see sunlight coming through the hull.

I made it up to the bridge (slightly dangerous due to the rot) and topside (really dangerous and you had to step VERY carefully).

[Platapus]

That's too bad, but it takes a lot of money to maintain such things.