After reading this book, the reviewer is surprised that the US Navy ever introduced submarines to the fleet before WWI due to the politics, intrigue…

Bergall had one of the finest softball teams in the Atlantic Fleet.3 We all loved the game, and it was natural for us to schedule…

It was a Saturday morning in 1974 in paradise, a.k.a. Hawaii. As good nukes, we were all at “work.” After all, our ship was in…

Few remember the 1972 Submarine Squadron 10 deployment to set up the advance submarine refit site at La Maddalena, Italy. SUBRON 10 then consisted mostly…

Gracious and eternal God, as we pause this night in the revelry of the anniversary of our accomplishments, to give you thanks for the watch…

(‘The Trade’ updated – with deep apologies to Rudyard Kipling)1 When our submarine rescue buoys have been rendered mute, With a welders’ strap or two…

Post-command menopause is a very real thing. After 3-4 years of having nearly total control of thousands of tons of warship and the many dozens…

During the Cold War, the submarine force was active, engaged, and underway. As a junior officer I was fortunate to have been assigned to USS…

I started my submarine career on the WWII diesel boats. I was much later that the war periods. I was fortunate to be walking in…

(My grandfather, Theodore (Dode) Hammond, was a Los Angeles boy who was admitted to the Naval Academy at the age of 16 and who graduated…