I served on this boat starting a couple of years after this article appeared, first in the Los Angeles Times, then in the Pacific Stars & Stripes dated October 13, 1971.
“In the darkened control center, illuminated dials and
gauges outline two helmsmen steering the submarine like some giant airliner in a windless sky.”
That’s one of the jobs that I was qualified to do when the division I was in had an over-abundance of newbie sailors and some of the other divisions were short.
My main work was back aft in the engineering spaces along with the rest of the nuclear operators.
The article is mostly accurate, which it should be to be republished in Stars&Stripes publication.
I was just a couple of months away from heading to boot camp when this article was published.
Read the article: The Silent Warriors—revamped polaris subs pack devastating nuclear punch.
