How big are the nuclear subs?
The Salt Lake City, which is a nuclear attack submarine, is 360 feet long. The Russians have a double hauled sub that had a hot tub in it and they can jog around the missiles. Now I understand that these submarines went on war patrols, how long did the patrols last? Where anywhere from 45 to 75 days. The average enlisted men would do 3 war patrols and you did 5? Well, what happens is, they figure after 3 runs that your percentages are going to get you. So they would transfer you either onto another sub or onto the sub base or the sub tender. I don’t know why I lasted all 5 runs on that ship, from the time I went on until the war ended. Maybe I was hiding or something. That’s interesting but shows your dedication of service. Now tell us about these war patrols, lets start right from the first one and go through all five of them and give us as much detail as you can about those. What happens is that when you leave the dock, the minute you leave a harbor then you are on your own, because
