Here’s a photo of a very proud moment for any submarine sailor. Actually, I qualified while BREAM was en route from Yokosuka to Pearl so I was wearing my dolphins for the inspection and the skipper is pretending to pin them on for the “photo op”.
I qualified in April, 1958. Spent a stormy 4 hours on the bridge with the qual officer LT Pete Durbin, on the 20:00 X 24:00 watch with seas breaking nearly waste deep at times. Then the next morning I did a 4 hour walk through the boat with him. We had the inspection the first week back. I remember Jim Duke got his dolphins at the same time.
"You sleep safe in your beds, because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do you harm."
George Orwell
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December 19, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Claudia
Congratulations for your “Dolphins”. I got my ‘Pin” as qualified R.N. in 1954. Not as hard as your life at sea but quite exciting when I went on James Bay, at the age of 24, to nurse the Crees. They are not Indians anymore but Autochtones. Political correctness!
I have been looking at all your photos. Beautiful family, home, pet and backyard. Lots of work I bet, but worth it, I’m sure.
January 17, 2008 at 10:11 pm
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