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I thnk I got all my updates done for the directory today. I know it has been forever... so long, in fact, that some of the email addresses are already "undeliverable / returned."

If you were waiting to be added or updated, please verify there is completed. If it's not right yet, remind me.

Here is an update on Brittany Marini and the Student Ambassador Program.

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Tunny Wardroom from September 1990, photo courtesy of Ltjg Chuck D'Errico

The photo was taken in front of the Parche memorial at Pearl. Here are the names of the people from left to right.

Ensign Jeff "Boxcar" Bay
Ltjg Cam Weaver
Lt Bill Heinz
Ltjg Willie "Rosebud" Gardner
Ltjg Chuck D'Errico
Lt Paul Skarpness
Lt Bill Donovan (Weaps)
Cdr Bob Speer (CO)
Lcdr Scott VanBuskirk (NAV)
Ltjg Jeff Staggs
Lcdr John Byrd (XO)
Ltjg Matthew Metts (SUP)
Lt Bob DePrizio
Ltjg Dana Ruge
Lcdr Dave Portner (ENG)

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 Today's special - Tuna salad

Here's the Menu layout: Section, Page and day it was last updated
TUNNY Du jour
18 DEC 03
28JUL03

TUNNY Biography

Ships History

03APR98

USS Tunny SS 282

11JUN99
USS TUNNY SS 282 Bell 16DEC03
282 Launching Bottle 20MAR04

Ships Power Plant

DEC97
Launch Ceremony photos 13NOV00
Launch Ceremony speeches 14MAY02

Jane's listing

DEC97

Decommissioning Ceremony

03FEB98
The Fairwater Planes today 18DEC03
The RC today 23MAR03

TUNNY Profile

Sub Sounds

29APR98
Dive Cups -Sub legend DEC97

SNOB FAQ - Sub legend

DEC97
Ships pictures 04NOV00

My pictures

22 JUN 99
Dry Dock Shelter 28 OCT 00

Crew Photos

29 SEP 03

Qualifying "Submarines"

14APR00

Photos / Photo Offer

14APR00
TUNNY Crew
23JAN08
26JUN03
Submarine Sociology 27APR00
Lola Lola Lola 12MAR99
Letter from "Big Red" 08 JUL 99
 True story about Royal DEC98
Sub Games and Past Times 14APR00
Quotes MAR98
Salute 22 MAY 03
Decommissioning CD 03APR98
2000 Reunion 15 OCT 00
Deck Log 11MAY99
My Off Watch Comments 23OCT00
Ask the Boat a Question 06JUN03
Links 04 NOV 00
 TUNNY trivia 16DEC03
Extras
Fundamental principle 11 NOV 00
Ex TUNNY sailor launches / Iraq 21MAY 03
Deployment, Reunion, and Divorce Jan 2005
USS Houston with my friend Dec2000
2002 Navy Reserves trip report 22JUN02
2003 Navy Reserves trip report 03SEP03
Web Log 27SEP02

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You guys have mail topside.

Yall know I stay angry at John McCain for dropping out of the 2000 Presidential race.

I also support the adoption of the UCMJ as an amendment to the US Constitution.

TUNNY Du Jour  

I am happy when someone takes the time to share their photos. I like to share these images on the TUNNY Homepage.

1. Ship's pictures (boat only, no people) pictures will go on a single page, "Ships Pictures".

2. Your personal photos will be archived in my main library.

3. Personal photos will be displayed in the Crew Photo pages.

For example, if David Parrish sent me 5 pictures, then there would be a David Parrish folder, and you could view his pictures there. In this system, if you don't know David Parrish, you probably won't take the time to look at his crew photos.

I will frequently change the photos, swapping them with new ones. Each person will have their own folder.

4. I don't know how often I will change the photos. Ideally, every week or 2. Lots of factors to consider. Basically. I'll change them as often as I can.

5. I won't ever delete photos from my computer library, even though they can't all possibly be displayed on the Internet all at once. I will burn them all to a CD someday.

6. Some of the photos will feature crewmembers in drag or their underwear. I don't want to offend or embarass anyone. If you are featured in a compromising photo and wish me to delete it from the Internet where hundreds of people are looking at it every month, just drop me a line.

Remember, the only way to share your photos on the TUNNY web page is to send them to me electronically, or through the US Mail. I will gladly scan and return your original photos. Contact me for details.

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Trivia Contest is plundered

There is a new trivia question. (March 2003)

I've already received a correct reponse from a certain brainy, contest-ruining, Internet researching, Engineering Officer who will remain unnamed. He looked the answer up on the Internet - what a cop out.

(His initials are Bill Donovan.)

Up Ladder

01 July 1992

I am "stowing" my stuff. Hot racking, so I have to cram it in and puka it.

I said goodbye to Jen and Lucia this morning. 36 days until we return. Poor Jen. And poor me - I love being with her.

This part of my life is the most painful. The boat is inport, and I am leaving in a couple of hours. I can call home, but it is only hello, hi, I'm not doing anything, well, I love you, goodbye. We don't talk because we don't know what to say. It's hopeless.

Of all the pain I have felt, the worst times have been these goodbyes. I left Jen crying at the ferry in Seattle, she stalls for conversation on the pier dropping me off.

All I can offer for hope is that "it doesn't go on forever." 483 more days.

Being in the Navy is like being robbed. Look what they've taken from us.

And now I'm at sea.

USS TUNNY's last day as a United States Attack Submarine was 13 March 1998. Imagine TUNNY's objective when she was newly commissioned. Imagine the goals of the nation who laid her keel in 1970!

Here is a quote from TUNNY's Launching ceremony in 1972;

"It would be nice to believe, as so many people profess these days, that if the United States would simply reduce its military strength, including our Navy, that all other countries would follow suit.

Unfortunately, as history has so well proven, this belief does not hold true. Until the time comes when the human race has far better control over its traits and ambitions than it has now we will have to maintain a defense establishment capable of turning back any aggressor. Our national security demands this. "

- Senator George D. Aiken

Today (28 years later) we finally know TUNNY's success -- years of excellence from her sea-going crew, the highest quality shipyard work and the unshakable resolve of the United States Navy and the American people. We know it all came true: TUNNY safeguarded the United States and was an instrument in winning the Cold War. Finally, TUNNY's duty has ended. Her mission perfectly accomplished!

Stay in touch.

Love, Tom - 8/38. Wake me up at 2330, or if the damn O2 Generator does "that" again.

 

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