DUmmies gripe about submarines--NADS input included

[miskie]

 We have 42 active Los Angles class hunter-killer submarines
why?

[I_B_Perky]

What kills me is that these idiots have no idea how instrumental the Silent Service was in WWII, and how it remained so to the present day.

DUmmies, and those not DUmmies--I highly recommend the book "Blind Man's Bluff."  You might come away with a VASTLY different opinion.

You are exactly right Sparky. Wasn't for them, the US would have had a much harder time defeating the Japs. They took out the Japs shipping and that hurt them so bad that couldn't supply their navy and their land forces.

The guy across the street told me to read Harry Homewood. Bought me Silent Sea I think it was. He had more... Final Harbor and I can't remember what the others in the series were. It's fiction, but he said it was pretty close. Never heard of Blind Man's Bluff but the HH series was great.

It goes into some detail about how the Admirals got onto the sub captains about how they weren't taking care of the torpedos that did not work. It was a hell of a series of books. 3 or 4 if I remember correctly. Too long ago to remember. It was fiction, but it was good. Guy that wrote them was on the boats.

[Airwolf]

The only submarine Nads knows anything about is this one.

[obumazombie]

The only submarine Nads knows anything about is this one.

Where is the flying sub ? I used to love that show.

[txradioguy]

What kills me is that these idiots have no idea how instrumental the Silent Service was in WWII, and how it remained so to the present day.

DUmmies, and those not DUmmies--I highly recommend the book "Blind Man's Bluff."  You might come away with a VASTLY different opinion.

It's not just the pig boat guys that the DUmmies and the left don't understand Sparky...it's the military in general.

Like the caller to Thom Hartmann's show the other day...they want Obama to just do away with the military entirely and save that money for other stuff.

You're talking about a generation that grew up with a 60's indoctrination that the military is evil...it always does bad things to innocent people...and does nothing more than line to pockets of those exploiting the evil and scary "military industrial complex".


We are viewed by the left as the poster child for everything wrong...jingoistic and imperialistic about the United States.

And we now have a President who believes the same thing.

[miskie]

The only submarine Nads knows anything about is this one.

Really ? I would have guessed this one..

[NHSparky]

At least they're going to be coed now.

Don't even get me started.  FWIW, only four boats (2 SSGN, 2 SSBN) are being crewed right now.  3 of the officers are already under investigation for falsifying travel claims. 

Nice start.

And no, I don't think it's going to work, and it'll NEVER happen on fast boats.

[BlueStateSaint]

Don't even get me started.  FWIW, only four boats (2 SSGN, 2 SSBN) are being crewed right now.  3 of the officers are already under investigation for falsifying travel claims.  

Nice start.

And no, I don't think it's going to work, and it'll NEVER happen on fast boats.

3 of the officers--all female?  Damn, that's quite the auspicious start.

[NHSparky]

3 of the officers--all female?  Damn, that's quite the auspicious start.

They were the three LT Supply Officers (CHOPs, as they're called on the boat.)  You'd think a ****ing SUPPLY OFFICER would know better than to cook the books, or to at least to do it so it wouldn't get caught.

They were supposed to "mentor" the younger female officers--the nuclear trained ones.  Typically, the only non-nuke officer on board is the CHOP.

[JohnnyReb]

WW2 statistics...numbers galore...airplanes, ships, submarines, men, casualities.


http://www.angelfire.com/ct/ww2europe/stats.html