Guam Trip #2 …and my 25th birthday

On December 28th we took off from Singapore after a relaxing stand-down to head back to Guam to get ready for our second mission.  In transit, we cleaned and ran drills, same old shit.  On New Years Eve, we held our crossing the line ceremony.  I just wasn’t all that into it.  It was a …

Lost All Hydraulics, Boat Is Crippled Like Timmy

June 25, 2004:  Submarine is crippled… like Timmy After of the aforementioned in-port tomfoolery [which was awesome] it was time for Engineering Department to get down to business.  We had just completed an extended maintenance period, and it was now time to get back out to sea and punch holes in the ocean once again.  It …