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The USS Permit SSN 594. Yep, I'm 594 tough! Still cut myself shaving on her, she's long gone and razor blades now. Technically a nuclear powered ship but not so you'd notice. We had to ventilate several times a day and ran the diesel engine quite often....
USS Plunger SSN 595; another one gone. She was my first boat. Despite the near death experiences I still think fondly of her. Gerry Renna and I had some sort of growth on the side of our faces that came from sleeping in the bomb room....
USS Buffalo SSN 715. The Buffy. The Radioman Chief kept thinking I was Guido. Only thing was Guido wasn't on board. He had been the year before.....
USS Gurnard SSN 662; Guido was with me on this one. Worked 12 on; 12 off with him as the other shift. Only thing was, he'd play cards after his shift for about six hours and didn't want to get up. So I'd be working 18 hour shifts! Not bad though. Guido taught me everything I know about being a PoZ 3'er!
USS Puffer SSN 652; Great mission and crew. Got really zapped with radiation on this one. No wonder submariners have a lot of female kids...
USS Flying Fish SSN 673; I learned that LANTFLT does things different than the PACFLT. Bucky the super mat man was on this one...
USS Sturgeon SSN 637; Can't talk about this one. 637 class boats were always my favorites. Okay living conditions and great for doing all sorts of missions....
USS Baltimore SSN 704; Last one I
was ever on. By the way the sailing ship
behind her is the first "Pride of
Baltimore".
They got together for a photo op.
Been on a few surface ships as
well.
In fact, for my last posting in the navy, I was stationed onboard the
finest
strike destroyer in the fleet:
The USS Thorn
(DD-988).