So, as the US fleet was steaming happily along, up popped a previously-undetected Chinese sub.
A DIESEL boat, no less, not nuke!
Alongside me sits a coffee cup, on which is painted:
"I LOVE the smell of DIESEL in the morning."
OK, we have a following wind. All you fresh air fanatics: Breath deeply!
Karl (former Engineman, surface)
First Engineman (surface) I've run into who got a kick out of being in the cross hairs...guess you understand how the guys at Exocet MBDA felt.
Didn't the Barbel Class have a special patch for crews who had replaced broken nukes on maneuvers?
Your call: was he out of air, or playing Down Periscope with Adm Fallon?
(Taiwan has a years-old standing but unfillable order with US for 8 new diesels. Think they'll get them now?)
How about a 2 million+ mile truck?
The coffee cup with the saying on it was purchased at a museum sub in SANFRAN I always thought that, if the big one came, the safest place might be on a sub. As it is, I've spent more time asleep on a sub than I have awake. ( Come to thunk of it, I may cave been aboard one in dry-dock during WWII - as a youngster.- Navy family.) Oh well, that's water over the bridge.
Karl
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