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USS Waterford and USS West
Milton
Groton Sub Base, Connecticut
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Sub sound
credit: HNSA
for all the sub mates I served with at Groton
Going Home
to Connecticut
after a family emergency, the navy transferred
me to duty
aboard the USS Waterford
at the New
London-Groton Submarine base,
in my home state of
Connecticut.
Having my
duty served at the sub base made it
easier for me to
be able to take care of
my mother who had
become very ill
and still enjoy the rest of my time in the navy.
But, I still miss
being on the
"goose" even to this day.
While serving aboard the Waterford,
which was
actually a floating dry dock,
at the
Groton Sub Base, our daily duties
included lowering the ship into
the
Thames River allowing the subs to
come
into the dry dock for repairs
and painting.
My personal
duties were as a Crane operator,
setting
up the dry dock to accept subs,
running starboard side deck crew
and standing deck watches.
what I learned
in the two years spent on
the
Betelgeuse made my two years
on the Waterford seem to sail by.
Find more
about this ship here:
US Navy Links.com
You can contact me at:
ussbetelgeuse
at centurylink.net
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