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Topic: Qualification

Posted By: Sewer Pipe Snipe
Subject: Qualification
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2017 at 4:52pm

How many of you actually loaded a fish in the tubes as a requirement for qualification? I remember the messenger of the watch waking off watch non-quals for certain evolution's. We were woke for a torpedo load, but mostly observed and were questioned, not hands on.

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Walt,
Had I done everything right throughout my life, the World wouldn't have noticed.

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Posted By: gerry
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2017 at 5:40pm

I did on the 641. We were a lot more hands-on at that time. In the early 90s on the 730 (Trident) not so much. In 641, I (a Missile Tech) qualified Sonar Watchstander and TMOW among others. On the 730, I got laughed at for asking. Different Navies.

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MT2/SS
USS Simon Bolivar - SSBN 641 (B)
USS Henry M. Jackson - SSBN 730 (B)
USSVI - Wyoming Base

Posted By: gcconnor1
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2017 at 10:07pm

First patrol on Ethan Allen in 1964 was on Torpedo Reload Party as an EM3(SU) Nuke for Battle Stations.

Hands on reload one time as part of quals.

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GC Connor EMC(SS)/LT USN Ret
USS Ethan Allen(7)
Holland Club WA2STJ

Posted By: FTGC(SS) Lane
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2017 at 7:24am

None of the 637 class boats I was on had a qual requirement of tube loading a torpedo.
The one boomer also did not have that requirement despite being a fully manual labor system.

Posted By: Dr. Stan
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2017 at 4:40pm

I qualified on the Queenfish (SS-393) in April 1962 and I am pretty sure that I did not have to actually load a torpedo to qualify. But, as a member of the deck gang I got plenty of practice loading fish into the forward torpedo room . . . not sure about the after torpedo room, though? On the 3 nukes I served on later I was not allowed to touch the fish.

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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.~Abe Lincoln
SS-393, SSBN-610(B), SSBN-624(G), SSN-591
USSVI Life Member; Holland Club; Plank Owner, Smoky Mtn. Base

Posted By: Gil
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2017 at 1:54pm

I never loaded a torpedo for qualification, but I got to do it when we were given the opportunity to sink the USS Fessington off Pearl in '68. My one second claim to fame was I was the last person on the Pickerel that patted the torpedo before it hit and sunk its target.

Posted By: bob dubois
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2017 at 5:29am

Not part of qual. But I helped make them ready when we went to sea. Just something to keep busy till I needed to stand watch on diesel boats.

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Bob DuBois SK1(SS)
USS Sailfish SS572
USS Sculpin SSN590
USS John Adams SSBN620(Blue)
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