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.