Better do this thing "about" right...
BRAZIL to modernize some of it's tanks. I'm
TRACKING this.
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/n...ard-1a5br-mbts
Now a little something different again from my world as we all get ready to start that summer "
malaise". I have actual copies of the following documents on hand and though they are
UNCLASSIFIED I never posted them. However, they are open sourced now, so 3 years+ of my life onboard the
USS PROVIDENCE SSN-719, starting in
1986...
Quick facts for 1986...Volunteered from my 2nd boat the the USS JOHN C. CALHOUN SSBN-630G to fill an "urgent" manning request while we were conducting a refueling overhaul in CNSY (Charleston Naval Shipyard, South Carolina)/
Reported onboard 14 Feb. (That's why this was our favorite command.) PROVIDENCE is the Fleets first VLS boat./
Met CINCLANTHOME on 16 Aug. and we were married on 11 Oct. (5 days were all we had. First movie with her and at that time, her kids...ALIEN!/
The week before Christmas (Remember we work on the boat import as well.) I come home from work, ask about her Drs. appt. and she sits me down to tell me she's pregnant. For you young guys out there DO NOT provide the following response "How did happen?!!?", boy was that a mistake!?!
https://www.history.navy.mil/content...v/pdf/1986.pdf
1987 Quick facts LANTSUBASWEX 2-87 was the largest NATO ASW exercise to date and currently as I understand it./I would qualify Submarines on 18 May (Our sons 10th Birthday.)/And would be left import for the only time in my career, to be there for our sons birth on 13 Aug (Tragically we would lose him to a pool drowning in 20 Aug 1989.)
https://www.history.navy.mil/content...v/pdf/1987.pdf
(You can see the actual SINKEX pictures on my profile page if you want.)
Two days after we "out chopped" from the MED, this happened...
https://ww31987.wordpress.com/2019/0...-1987-part-ii/
I give you the rest below...
1988 we stand up and certify the VLS System/
That Dec inspection in
PEV started out as a port visit which we were told was cancelled as we were entering port to pick up our "
esteemed guests"
https://www.history.navy.mil/content...v/pdf/1988.pdf
Our final year
1989. In
my/our time on
PROVIDENCE we would be
apart 89% of the time. It was our
favorite command/We still
maintain contact with a handful of couples and crew on the boats FB Page/It represented some of
our best times and in this year, our
most tragic event we've ever experienced. We are both stronger for it and in Oct. we celebrate our
35th. I would be left in on 5 May with
TAD orders to
COMSUBDEVRON 12 Ops Dept. until I executed my
PCS orders to COMSUMGRU TEN down here with a
report date in OCT.
https://www.history.navy.mil/content...v/pdf/1989.pdf
(We were supposed to pull into Portsmouth England in '87 before "
chopping" into the Med. however, when
LANTSUBASWEX 2-87 was completed the
Soviets sent several boats into the area, we responded in kind (Several others lost port calls as well.) while we sat in a box until it was time to enter the Med as we had a special "
appointment" to keep.
)
A little something to keep you occupied.
To see how a command can have a positive affect visit the following and search under American subs. That sailor would be me and it would be signed at my retirement in
2002 by my C.O. Captain Terry Tehan Ret. USN (Was promoted when he departed the boat at the Change of Command.) when he attended as my guest speaker (Boy can I tell you some stories about him!!
Best C.O. I ever had.)...
http://subart.net/
(In the 'sold out" section bottom.)
Regards,
Pat
