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San Diego, Saturday morning September 1st 2001, at the Point Loma Sub
Base, Ballast Point, Middle Pier. I was seeing the Kam for the first time in over 15 years. For
most
of the guys in our group, it was closer to 35 years.
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The Kam still looks good, showing 36 years of awards.
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Morning muster on the pier. On the right, Fred Nellums is the last of our group
to arrive.
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This is me, Greg Pancerev, going down the AMR1 hatch for the first time since
1986.
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Getting briefed by the CO in the MCC. Now that the old missile computers are
gone, it is a training/meeting room.
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Hanging out in the crews mess while we are getting ready to get underway. The
sea stories are already starting. Every one of them starts with "this is no
sh*t"
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Charlie Brown inspecting the donuts.
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Pulling way from the pier at San Diego.
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Still pulling way from the pier at San Diego.
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Backing into the channel.
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Some of our group topside.
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Saying goodbye to San Diego. That is a new sonar on the turtleback.
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Underway on Nuclear power! This feels pretty damn good!
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Underway in control looking aft into Navcenter. Note that Richard Tenderella is
wearing an original gold beret from 1965. It seems that there was this
song, "the ballad of the gold berets" but the lyrics aren't quite
suitable for display here.
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Jess Harmon looking for book in the crew's lounge.
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Ahhh... time to hit the bunkie... I had a rack in between missile tubes 14 and
16. These bunks were added in the conversion in 1992.
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Missile Compartment head. Okay maybe SOMEONE wanted to know what a submarine
toilet looks like.
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Nice stained glass of Kamehameha in the fwd end of the crews mess.
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![JT_Double_Picture.jpg (51698 bytes)](images4_DVcruise/JT_Double_Picture_small.jpg)
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This is Jack Townsend. Still sitting in the same
place after all these years. Looks like he's got a fresh cup of coffee though.
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Some old shipmates having a technical discussion
in what used to be the MCC. Photo donated by Jack Townsend.
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Al Smith helping with the cream puffs.
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![K8.jpg (79058 bytes)](images3/K8_small.jpg)
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Three "Old"
Goats in the Goat Locker, Punchey Conwell, Don Tschopp, and Dave Morrow. Photo
donated by Don Tschopp.
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The torpedo room looks the same. Except no torpedoes of course.
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We even got a look inside the battery well. Does anyone remember what type of
battery this is? Guppy something or other... I'm told this is the last one of
its type in the fleet.
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This was something different. We got to look inside missile tube 15 in MCUL
while underway. In the 1980's we might have got shot.
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Tube 15 was converted to a hot tub... Yes, a submarine with a hot tub! It
was used to warm up the SEALS after they returned from a mission. That is me
inside the tube with Don Tschopp.
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Inside tube 15 looking up at the hatch. How many people have ever had this view?
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Dave Aunkst, a former Reactor Operator, in AMR1UL by the hatch to the tunnel.
This is as far aft as we were allowed to go. Being former nukes, we would
have liked to go back aft to AMR2, the ER and Maneuvering, but NAVSEA is still
kind of weird about this. Does anyone know why? No big deal really, we still had
a great time.
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The webmaster, also a former RO, this time in the torpedo room. Back in 1983, I
was locked inside tube #2 during a sub qual checkout. You don't suppose they
still do that do you?
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Nice picture of tube 9 in MCML.
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The crew's mess looks pretty nice these days. I am told they paid a Hawaiian
artist to paint the Hawaiian scenes on the bulkheads. They even have a big
screen TV.
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Some of our group volunteered to messcrank and serve the crew for our Sunday
dinner. T-bone steak and king crab legs. I sure didn't lose any weight on this
cruise. I think I only missed one meal.
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The laundry looks the same.
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In the Control room, 642 feet below the surface of the pacific.
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Also in the Control room, this one has me in it.
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The old library is now the ship's office.
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Hanging out in the crew's lounge, OPS LL. Three days of continuous sea
stories. "And THIS one is NO SH*T" I heard some stories
about an alligator or two in AMR2LL. Then there were the turtles. What what do
you do with a dead turtle? Put it in the nose cone of a Polaris missile? Hmmm...
not sure about that one. I also heard a story that involved John Bosanek, a
signal ejector, and a helicopter. Not sure what happened there, but now
John tells me that he eventually became an expert on the differences between a
smoke and a flare.
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Howard Grover, the Bear, and Brunberg, who is now EMC(SS).
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The webmaster enjoying a cup of coffee with the bear. Photo taken by Howard
Grover.
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Up on the bridge Monday morning. Somewhere off shore of Monterey. We got to see
some whales out there, but they never pose for pictures.
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The bridge cockpit. They have GPS now. This would make a cool ad for Garmin GPS.
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Ken Loncar and Greg Pancerev on the bridge.
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The Navigator and Public Affairs Officer extraordinaire, LT Godbey, on the bridge.
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The XO looking through periscope #1.
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Coming into San Francisco bay on Monday afternoon, September 3rd. Alcatraz is to
our stern. We passed under the Golden Gate bridge but I was in the rack and
didn't get any pictures of that.
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A fireboat was there to greet us.
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San Francisco to the right and the Bay Bridge in front of us.
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Passing under the bay bridge.
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A nice view of San Francisco and the Bay Bridge. As we were passing this point,
Barry Bonds hit his 58th home run of the season at PacBell Park.. I am told that
the cameras also panned out into the bay showed us on TV too.
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San Francisco again.
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Jack Townsend in San Francisco Bay.
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This one is me.
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Part of our group topside. Not a great looking bunch, but what the hell.
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Arriving in Alameda. That is the USS Hornet, now a museum.
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Alongside the pier in Alameda.
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As always, the coners go on liberty while the nukes tend to the details of shore
power and the reactor shutdown.
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One of the cool things we did while on the cruise was to fire all of the
external countermeasures from the "Buick holes"
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I thought this was a nice picture with the flag and all.
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Saying goodbye to the Kam for now. See you guys at the reunion in March
2002!
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