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Looks like the Trident Base in King's Bay is getting a new Missile Training Center, but for a strange kind of missile -- the Tomahawk. It got me to thinking; will the crews of the four SSGNs really be boomer Sailors? They'll have two crews, but they won't necessarily run away from everyone -- will we have to come up with some new name for them? Any ideas?
posted by Bubblehead at 8:54 AM
I'm Joel Kennedy -- a married, 50-something year old retired submarine officer and esophageal cancer survivor with three kids who has finally made the transition to civilian life. Politically, I'm a Radical Moderate. (If you don't like something on this blog, please E-mail me. Don't call me at home.)
4 Comments:
How about "Tom Boys."
RM1(SS)
6/03/2005 10:32 AM
Joel, how about Boom-lets. Sort of like how Cluster Bomblets are the smaller version of a single BIG Bomb or thermonuclear !BOOM! if you would. -LL
6/03/2005 2:45 PM
I'm partial to "Kamehameha" but "James K. Polk" would do fine too. Remember, we've done something a bit like this before.
Based on previous tradition and practice I don't expect the names of the ships to change.
The commodore of one of the squadrons has extensive "boomer within a thousand yards of shore" experience, since he took Kam to some tight spots and back with great success. He's a good pick.
6/05/2005 5:20 PM
Chap got me there... I didn't specify that the "name" to think about changing was "boomer"...
6/06/2005 1:32 AM
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