U.S.S. Pampanito-Anyone seen it?

captainFlunky · 04-17-07, 08:34 PM

I'm a long time lurker at these forums and now feel compelled to register after touring the USS Pampanito at San Francisco. I'm out on a business trip and skived off work this afternoon to visit this museum sub due to my SH addiction and all I can say is Wow! What an experience! Seeing and being on board a WWII fleet sub is something that any sub enthusiast would relish. I'd like to know how many of you have had the opportunity to see a boat first hand and what your impressions were.

I was struck by how large it seemed from the exterior and how tiny even a relatively large fleet boat seemed inside. I was in the U.S. army for 5 years as an infantryman with combat experience in Panama in '89 and the First Gulf War in a M2 Bradley as a dismount and I thought THAT was camped but it doesn't even come close to the claustraphobia of being on board a sub. I gained a whole new respect for the men who spent weeks on these boats, the level of motivation must have been amazing.

And after playing SH4 for an unseemly amount of time, when I entered the control room I said to myself "Huh...these is really familiar...where's my crew?"

If anyone can recommend any other museum boats that are out there, I'd love to here what you thought of them.

Cheers,

Captain Flunky

04-17-07, 08:34 PM	#1
captainFlunky Watch Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 27 Downloads: 72 Uploads: 0	U.S.S. Pampanito-Anyone seen it? I'm a long time lurker at these forums and now feel compelled to register after touring the USS Pampanito at San Francisco. I'm out on a business trip and skived off work this afternoon to visit this museum sub due to my SH addiction and all I can say is Wow! What an experience! Seeing and being on board a WWII fleet sub is something that any sub enthusiast would relish. I'd like to know how many of you have had the opportunity to see a boat first hand and what your impressions were. I was struck by how large it seemed from the exterior and how tiny even a relatively large fleet boat seemed inside. I was in the U.S. army for 5 years as an infantryman with combat experience in Panama in '89 and the First Gulf War in a M2 Bradley as a dismount and I thought THAT was camped but it doesn't even come close to the claustraphobia of being on board a sub. I gained a whole new respect for the men who spent weeks on these boats, the level of motivation must have been amazing. And after playing SH4 for an unseemly amount of time, when I entered the control room I said to myself "Huh...these is really familiar...where's my crew?" If anyone can recommend any other museum boats that are out there, I'd love to here what you thought of them. Cheers, Captain Flunky