John david Trolinger 'trol'

 

I served with some of the finest people in the world,
as a Sonar Technician in the in the United States Submarine Service **

Submarines Once!...

Submarine Dolphin Ensignia, borrowed from Bollman's site

Submarines Twice!...

 
 

Panama Canal Transit
Yours truly, topside watch on Bergall
just leaving the first set of locks and
heading for a barbeque and swim call
in Lake Gatun

Holly Jumping Jezus Crist!
 
 

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How to simulate submarine life in your own home

 
 

                                               Some things I found while Surfing  (Credits at the bottom)
 
 

 
                                One big diffrence about us that wear the fish and the guys that wear the wings.
                                Navy regulations prohibit a pilot from flying a $8 million fighter with no less
                                than 8hrs sleep time, while there is nothing wrong with a submariner operating
                                the reactor on a $700 million submarine who has gone without sleep for 36 hrs.

                                    --unknown nuke
 

                                I know this pig can fly.

                                    -- Chief Of the Watch just prior to an emergency blow test
 
 

One Trident class submarine at sea is the fourth most powerful country on the planet.

                                    -- Some boomer puke

                                How many of you guys had a Phantom "Growler"
                                who would roam the decks on the midwatch and
                                growl the JA phone circuit......
                                you'd pick up and hear......control, torp. room, sonar, radio, Capt...
                                                                        .....G*D D*mn it if I ever catch you........

                                    --unknown
 

                                And those Dolphins, they leave marks on your chest,
                                right over your heart, long after the uniforms have been put away.
                                Once you have earned them, you will always wear them, and you
                                will always be recognized as a submariner by the submarine community.

                                    --Bud Turner
 
 
 
 

Credits for sites that I ripped off.

http://www.georgetoft.com/
http://www.unclesam.net/cny/index.htm
http://www.inetworld.net/aft/bergall2.html
http://seawolf-ssn575.com/
http://members.xoom.com/quahog99/index.html
http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/h/k/hkbirke/www/index.html
http://wavecom.net/bbs/subboard/
http://ussvi.org
http://www.subatomichumor.com/old/qna99.html
http://wave.sheridan.wy.us/~rontini/
http://www.lava.net/~whbates/
 

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Quotes that I enjoy

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18."
                                                                                  -- Einstein
 

"Imagination is more important than knowledge  "
                                            -- Albert Einstein
 

As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code.
 

"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we
 had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part
 of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."

                                                        -- Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949
 
 

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants."
                                                                                                         -- Isaac Newton

"I have become death, shatterer of worlds."
                                         -- Oppenheimer
 

God does not play dice with the universe.
 

"There is no reason for people to have computers in their homes."
                                                         -- Ken Olsen, president
                                                             of Digital, 1977
 
 

Nuclear war doesn't prove who's Right, just who's Left (ABC news 10/13/1987)
 

I think you are referring to a quote of John Young.  When asked what it felt
like before an Apollo launch, he replied,
"You're lying on your back...thirty-five stories in the air...on top of six million
 pounds of parts and fuel...all submitted by the lowest bidder."
 

If you want to be seen,
                                     STAND UP
                             If you want to be heard,
                                     SPEAK UP
                             If you want to be appreciated,
                                     SHUT UP
 

"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We
      don't believe this to be a coincidence." ||   - Jeremy S. Anderson
 

"When in doubt, tell the truth."
                   Mark Twain

"When in doubt, book 'em."
                   Steve McGarret, Five-O