Things for New Sailors & Visiting Sub Sailors to Know...

[Loyal]

Watch carefully Sub sailors so that you can appear to be an old Salt aboard real Navy ships...

Now go to the Bridge for instructions on how to lower the main mast to pass under the Coronado bridge....


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBZdL69BksQ

 

[thirteen28]

As Ivan Drago once said, "I must break you". Your keel anyway.


View: https://youtu.be/81fRUr_8mLI?t=284

 

[thirteen28]

... and check out the cool swag I got in the mail today

From left to right, a piece of the hull, a piece of the sonar sphere, and a piece of the shaft seal.

 

[Loyal]

As Ivan Drago once said, "I must break you". Your keel anyway.


View: https://youtu.be/81fRUr_8mLI?t=284

Only way you underwater boats can take on a real Navy ship is to strip her of electronics and weapons, ya bastids!

 

[thirteen28]

Only way you underwater boats can take on a real Navy ship is to strip her of electronics and weapons, ya bastids!

Go tell that to the 3/4 of all sunk Japanese shipping sent to Davy Jones locker in WWII )

 

[Loyal]

Go tell that to the 3/4 of all sunk Japanese shipping sent to Davy Jones locker in WWII )

You mean the Japanese shipping that the surface fleet helped to sink as well?

Besides, you can't compare that enemy fleet with the greatest surface fleet the World has ever known!

 

[IowaRam]

padeye covers

 

[thirteen28]

You mean the Japanese shipping that the surface fleet helped to sink as well?

Besides, you can't compare that enemy fleet with the greatest surface fleet the World has ever known!

Biggest mistake the Japanese made at Pearl Harbor ... they left the sub base untouched. Much to their ultimate regret :explode:

 

[Loyal]

Biggest mistake the Japanese made at Pearl Harbor ... they left the sub base untouched. Much to their ultimate regret :explode:

Naw...it was not destroying the dry docks and the fuel depot for the Pacific fleet. IF they had made the dry docks unusable, ships would have to have been towed to the West Coast for repair. As it was, they just needed to refloat the ships and then push them into dry dock nearbye...

 

[thirteen28]

Naw...it was not destroying the dry docks and the fuel depot for the Pacific fleet. IF they had made the dry docks unusable, ships would have to have been towed to the West Coast for repair. As it was, they just needed to refloat the ships and then push them into dry dock nearbye...

That was their 2nd biggest mistake

(you're not expecting any admission from me, are you?)