Meet your latest dink non-qual puke

Sam.I.Am · 10-06-13, 03:14 PM

Hello all. I stumbled upon this site while trying to get an old copy of Fast Attack to work and decided to join up. I was feeling nostalgic for twiddling MK 78 dials.

I'm a cold war era TM1(SS) from boomers (654g (ALPO) and 631g (LPO) for a total of 8 patrols) with shore duty on a SSN (Nautilus 571 as a tour guide and of course fire and security watches). I also spent my first year and a half getting my first boat (654) out of Newport News from a refueling overhaul and got to do a DASO launch out of PCAN.

At the time that I left after 8.5 years I was qualified in submarines (of course) and everything from TSS, TSPO, Below Decks and Off Crew Duty Chief to provisional qualification as COW, DOOW (TRE inspectors couldn't interview people who hadn't completely qualified so of course you don't qualify someone that won't be actually standing the watch so the CO initialed my cards for those watch stations instead so if needed I could be insta-qualed in a pinch). Most of my time was spent as either TMOW or FTOW with the usual time spent as a helmsman\planesman and mess crank.

Obvious collateral duties included Small Arms PO, CWHS, RPPO, 3M work supervisor and so on with Weapons Dept Training PO, ships Navy Relief Coordinator and QA Inspector for a lot of A-Gang repairs (they of course reciprocated, not a great deal really as they had a lot more broken stuff than we did).

My boats were forward based in Holy Loch with one stop in Naples for the yearly "Show the flag so we can control all NATO submarine assets in the Med exercise". Other than that we hit PCAN (as I mentioned earlier), Charleston after DASO and New London at State Pier because we were the host boat for AUTEC and that was where boats who did that also did their refits. We almost made it to Belgium but they cut us off at the last minute (we were literally 12 hours from surfacing and were going to 4SQ when we found out) for political reasons.

10-06-13, 03:14 PM	#1
Sam.I.Am Swabbie Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 7 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Meet your latest dink non-qual puke Hello all. I stumbled upon this site while trying to get an old copy of Fast Attack to work and decided to join up. I was feeling nostalgic for twiddling MK 78 dials. I'm a cold war era TM1(SS) from boomers (654g (ALPO) and 631g (LPO) for a total of 8 patrols) with shore duty on a SSN (Nautilus 571 as a tour guide and of course fire and security watches). I also spent my first year and a half getting my first boat (654) out of Newport News from a refueling overhaul and got to do a DASO launch out of PCAN. At the time that I left after 8.5 years I was qualified in submarines (of course) and everything from TSS, TSPO, Below Decks and Off Crew Duty Chief to provisional qualification as COW, DOOW (TRE inspectors couldn't interview people who hadn't completely qualified so of course you don't qualify someone that won't be actually standing the watch so the CO initialed my cards for those watch stations instead so if needed I could be insta-qualed in a pinch). Most of my time was spent as either TMOW or FTOW with the usual time spent as a helmsman\planesman and mess crank. Obvious collateral duties included Small Arms PO, CWHS, RPPO, 3M work supervisor and so on with Weapons Dept Training PO, ships Navy Relief Coordinator and QA Inspector for a lot of A-Gang repairs (they of course reciprocated, not a great deal really as they had a lot more broken stuff than we did). My boats were forward based in Holy Loch with one stop in Naples for the yearly "Show the flag so we can control all NATO submarine assets in the Med exercise". Other than that we hit PCAN (as I mentioned earlier), Charleston after DASO and New London at State Pier because we were the host boat for AUTEC and that was where boats who did that also did their refits. We almost made it to Belgium but they cut us off at the last minute (we were literally 12 hours from surfacing and were going to 4SQ when we found out) for political reasons.