A Great Site... i really enjoyed the Virtual Ship's Tour... good explanations of what i was looking at, what direction i was facing, and a lil background... BIG THANKS for allowing me aboard --Mike
I was a member of the Blue crew during that year in which most of it was spent either in the yards or getting ready to go into the yards. If such a thing happened it's hard to beleive that I would not have remembered it, bottom line, myth busted.
The problem that I continue to have with this story is severalfold:
1. My dad was in USAF's Strategic Air Command *at the time* and recalls no USAF action. Highly unlikely that the USN would be on high alert and the USAF wouldn't. DEFCON affects *ALL* nuclear forces; not just Navy.
2. The Casimir Pulaski was one of *41* boomers. All boomers *at sea* would have likewise gone to full alert. Yet no one from any other boomer has made similar claims.
3. Likewise, the whole Mediterrean Fleet including two aircraft carriers and their nuclear bombs would have also gone on alert. Yet again, no one recalls any such episodes.
Now of course, it's possible that I could possibly be wrong, but short of having a video tape of that Pulaski patrol...
Can any 1980 crew members confirm Dudley Thomas' claim about the Soviet invasion of Mount Ararat to remove sections of Noah's ark? Dudley claims that the crew was placed on red alert for 3 days preparing to fire missiles during this incident.
Has anyone heard from Steve Blanton? He was a NAVET and would have probably left in the mid to late seventies, probably as a second class. I served with him on Nathanael Greene Gold. Last I saw of him he was a CPO when he left the Greene in 1986. Anyone with information can contact me at natgreene1@aol.com.
I was an FTB on the Pulaski from 1991 to the decommisioning in Bremerton. I have quite a few pics from the Pulaski's last journey from Charleston through the ditch to Bremerton, WA that I will send asap.
Fantastic site
To bad the 41 for Freedom isn't get a MUC for their service as the 14 floating hotels, tender and shore support staff did!
Bruce Musgrove, MM1/ELT (SS)
USS George C. Marshall SSNN-654 Blue, 1987-1990
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