WAY back in the day… early 70s, no it’s not me in the picture, but I got to ‘enjoy’ Warner Springs in January going through SERE training… Brrr… War Criminal #25!!!
And yes, the damned rattlesnakes were PROTECTED!!! Cost us our stew… sigh
Vintage Gary Larson toon…
These were always fun, when you ‘hung’ a sonobuoy on a ‘playmate’ and listened to it banging down the hull… 🙂
Off topic rant removed.
Ahh, Warner Springs… I managed to do my resort vacation there in September ‘75.
I know fishing nets and crab pots snag submarines but the nets and pots usually come out second best.
May’74, #47 as I recall.
Warner Springs, what happened to that tshirt from spring 72?
Phil- At least it was warm!
Gerry- True! Friend of mine was a sub CO, ‘caught’ all kinds of things…LOL
SoCal- Strange how we remember stuff like that, isn’t it…
SCPO- I don’t know.
Yep, did my fine dining there summer of ’67. The one spoonful of spam was delicious!
There’s absolute confirmation that a sub from Chile sank a sailboat after visiting Bangor in 1994.
https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/1994/09-13/298959_sub_sinks_sailboat_after_leavin.html
The commercial fisherman that I knew in the Pacific Northwest suspected that they’d lost friends to subs off the coast but I’m not sure that way collisions with boats or entanglements with nets were ever publicly acknowledged by the USN.
Flugel- Ouch…
R- I don’t honestly know either. Sorry. And yes, I remember reading about the Chilean sub.
Speaking of throwbacks, I just read about the THrifty ROman numeral BAckwards looking Computer (THROBAC), a desk calculator for doing arithmetic with Roman numerals built in 1953.
I worked with a guy who was the crew chief on Marine 1, during George H.W. Bush’s presidency. He did SERE training in New England, I thought that he told me Rhode Island, but it could have been a different state.
He said that just before they were scheduled to return to their base, or wherever they were stationed, a huge blizzard snowed them in, for an entire week, so they got to enjoy the hospitality of the hosts for a whole extra week of training in the fun and games.