Another year, another Navy Birthday

I need your help… was your Navy experience a family thing? If so, how?

I can’t remember a time in my life that the Navy wasn’t part of my family. My Dad served in World War 2 and my Grandpa Mac served in World War 1. I joined at 17 and later was joined by my little brother on the USS San Francisco. Tom’s son and my nephew Artie […]

“There are men working in the sail… do not raise, lower, rotate or radiate from any mast or antennae… there are men working in the sail!”

One of the most profound influences on submarine operation and development: Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz

Naval Communique No. 214 – December 6, 1942: THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR, DECEMBER 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor – The narrative Nearly one year after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Navy Department released a comprehensive report detailing the losses and destruction at Pearl Harbor. Fighting in the Solomon Islands at Guadalcanal was ongoing but after the epic sea battles in the preceding months, the battle was turning in favor […]

The rarest commodity – sleep

Civilians take sleep for granted. But anyone who has ever been in the service, whether as an officer or enlisted person knows that sleep is one of the greatest luxuries that has ever existed. When you leave home and arrive at your basic training, you immediately realize that sleep is regulated by someone who is […]

He’s in Submarines Now – A long line of Shared Experience

In 1942, the world was at war. There were very few places that weren’t affected by Chaos. The oceans were still the primary way that commerce traveled abroad, and those seas were filled with sharks that did their best to slow that commerce down. Those were, of course, the steel submarines that were filled with […]

The Patten Family and the USS Nevada (first posted in 2018)

It’s all about the education

The Silent Service – Before Nuclear Power