Michael

Submarine Designated, Submarine Qualified, Cold War Veteran

[Michael @Bublhead654]

This man is 80 yrs old. He was referred to me for roof repairs and still climbs roofs like a mountain goat. He told me he writes music and sings in a band once a month. Here’s his YouTube channel. Take time to listen.

Floyd Callen - Topic https://t.co/jtINS27PVA via @YouTube

[Michael @Bublhead654]

@BuzzPatterson https://t.co/g9eERuofcI

[Michael @Bublhead654]

@USN_Submariner Never operated in water shallow enough to be of any use.

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

Every major network covered Joe Bidens "Red Speech" where he call half the country domestic terrorists, but they won't cover President Trump speech tonight because he's going to talk about securing our elections!

You don't hate legacy media enough!

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

JUST IN - Trump releases documents reportedly exposing election interference in U.S..

https://t.co/4rxe5dxadc

[Michael @Bublhead654]

@Tironianae @SolidRock_Coach Always thought when they doubled the time between back ground investigation re-evaluations for TS clearance it would exacerbate problems.

[Michael @Bublhead654]

@SGTWipper1Each Seing 6:54 am or pm on a clock. (USS George C. Marshal SSBN 654)

[Michael @Bublhead654]

@JayJosephVet

[Michael @Bublhead654]

@WellsJorda89710 @swampfoxwarrior “For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.”
Acts 20:29-30 NKJV

[Michael @Bublhead654]

@PatriciaHeaton I think she means a “Jealousy Tax.”

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

82 years ago today, eight American sailors jumped onto a sinking Nazi submarine in the middle of the Atlantic.

What they pulled out of it changed the war. And the Navy buried the whole story for years.

First, you need to know that U-505 was already cursed. German sailors called her the unluckiest boat in the fleet. In October 1943, during a brutal British depth-charge attack, her own captain shot himself in the head in the control room, in front of his crew. He remains the only submarine commander in history known to have killed himself underwater in combat. His second-in-command calmly took over, rode out the attack, and sailed her home.

Eight months later, her luck ran out completely.

June 4, 1944. Two days before D-Day. Captain Daniel Gallery's hunter-killer group, built around the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal, had been stalking U-boats off West Africa. Gallery had an idea his superiors considered borderline insane: don't sink the next one. Capture it. No US Navy crew had boarded and taken an enemy warship on the high seas since 1815.

The destroyer escort USS Chatelain caught U-505 on sonar and fired a salvo of hedgehog bombs. The U-boat broke the surface 700 yards away. Gunfire raked the conning tower, wounding her captain. He gave the order to abandon ship.

The Germans rushed out so fast they botched the scuttling. The sub was flooding, but her engines were still running. She was circling the battle at six knots, empty, sinking, and very possibly rigged with demolition charges.

So Lt. Albert David and eight men from USS Pillsbury chased her down in a whaleboat, leaped aboard, and climbed down the hatch into a dark, flooding submarine that could explode or go under at any second. They shut the scuttling valves, disarmed the charges, and stopped the flooding.

Down there they found the prize: Enigma cipher machines and roughly 900 pounds of codebooks and charts. Current settings. The keys to the German navy's secret communications.

But here's the catch. The treasure was only valuable if Germany never found out. One leak and Berlin changes every code overnight.

So the Navy ran one of the great cover-ups of the war. The sub was towed 1,700 miles to Bermuda and given a fake American name: USS Nemo. Around 3,000 sailors were sworn to total silence. The 58 captured German crewmen vanished into a POW camp in rural Louisiana, hidden even from the Red Cross. Germany declared U-505 lost with all hands and notified the families. The dead men were alive in Louisiana, and their boat was working for the US Navy.

The secret held until the war ended.

Lt. David received the Medal of Honor, the only one awarded in the Atlantic Fleet in all of WWII.

And the submarine? In 1954, Chicagoans raised $250,000 to bring her home. She was towed across Lake Michigan and dragged through the streets of Chicago to the Museum of Science and Industry.

She's still sitting there right now. You can walk through her.

[Michael @Bublhead654]

@BubbleheadLogic @JayJosephVet I always “enjoyed” waking up almost standing on my head for angles and dangles.

[Michael @Bublhead654]

U.S. Navy Plans Major Deployment of New Columbia-Class Nuclear Submarines at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor https://t.co/GcIii6OKEU

[Michael @Bublhead654]

Young Submarine Workers Are Leaving for Less Demanding Jobs - Business Insider https://t.co/pj2kGabIqd

[Michael @Bublhead654]

The Quiet War: How The Seawolf-Class Became The Submarine The U.S. Navy Built When Cost Did Not Matter — And Why Its Acoustic Edge Still Holds - 19FortyFive https://t.co/x9A2pMIFJl

[Michael @Bublhead654]

@JoelFeldmanPhD S. Q. U. I. D. - Submarine Qualified Until I Die.

[Michael @Bublhead654]

@EricaRN4USA @FFT1776 “But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”
Matthew 6:6 NKJV

[Michael @Bublhead654]

@EmeraldRobinson “Then He said to them, “But now, he who has a money bag, let him take it, and likewise a knapsack; and he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.”
Luke 22:36 NKJV

[Michael @Bublhead654]

@lippyent

[Overton @overton_news]

Ken Paxton just delivered a masterful takedown of Senator John Cornyn’s 42-year career in politics.

When asked what his message to Texans is tonight, Paxton said he would only ask the people one question.

PAXTON: “Look, my message is simple.”

“This guy, John Cornyn, has been in office for 42 years since I was in college and I’m 63.”

“He’s running for a fifth term, which no one’s done in Texas history.”

“And I spent the last 14 months on the road asking one question.”

“What good thing has John Cornyn done — not just in the 24 years I’m going to give him the whole 42 years that he’s been in office — what one good thing has he accomplished?”

“And asking that question, in every meeting I’ve been in, from one person to thousands, no one has ever given me an answer.”

“And then I say, take any two-week period I’ve been in office, John Cornyn can pick it, and I will have accomplished more in two weeks than he’s accomplished in 42 years.”

“We need somebody that will deliver for Texas, somebody that will go fight, and John Cornyn is not that guy.”