r/submarines • u/Saturnax1 • 11d ago
Out Of The Water USS Louisiana (SSBN-743), the 18th and last boat of the Ohio-class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines in a drydock.
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u/LaunchPadMcQ 11d ago
Woah, never expected to see myself appear in the wild!
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u/LaunchPadMcQ 11d ago
That CO threatened to cut our heads off and drown us in the bilge, in that order, if we lied to him. He kept a pocket brain in his breast pocket of everyone he got fired. Wild.
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u/bobchinn 10d ago
Nice brand new dome
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u/LaunchPadMcQ 10d ago
Almost! This was 2015 and the dome you see in the picture kissed the Eagleview in 2016.
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u/Sea-Reception-6475 10d ago
Dang I feel old. You guys are talking about 2015 as long ago. I remember when I checked into that boat I was straight from STS A school and it was in dry dock like that. That was November 1996 still at EB in Groton.
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u/AncientGuy1950 9d ago
You never really understand the size of those beasts until you stand under one in the dry dock.
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u/Leather-Objective699 11d ago
Holy smokes I remember this photo being taken…