Questions needing answers

[bknight]

When I was in the USN sub force we called the navigator "Nav".  We would take on a local pilot (navigator familiar with the area) when entering a port other than our homeport.  He or she was called the pilot.

Ranb

Fairly normal operations of commercial ships entering or leaving a port.

[Obviousman]

What do they call harbor pilots in Australia to distinguish them from the 'pilots' who are really navigators? Are warships required to have harbor pilots?

Regarding taking on a pilot, that was up to the local rules for the port in question.

The Nav was still the Navigating Officer, but the COs tended to call them pilot. If there were a harbour pilot on the bridge then the CO (and everyone else) would ensure that the harbour pilot was called either 'Pilot" or by their name (e.g. Mr Johns).

[onebigmonkey]

When I was in the USN sub force we called the navigator "Nav".  We would take on a local pilot (navigator familiar with the area) when entering a port other than our homeport.  He or she was called the pilot.

Ranb

So the navigator would called 'nav', which makes an astrogator...erm..

[darren r]

So the navigator would called 'nav', which makes an astrogator...erm..

The Jetsons' dog?

[Chew]

When I was in the USN sub force we called the navigator "Nav".  We would take on a local pilot (navigator familiar with the area) when entering a port other than our homeport.  He or she was called the pilot.

Ranb

I didn't know you were in subs, too. Have you mentioned it before on here? Which boat(s) did you serve on? What was your rate?

[Ranb]

I probably mentioned it some time in the past.  I was an MM/ELT.

Tautog 84-87
Jacksonville 87-89
Wm H. Bates 92-95
Cavalla 95-97

Ranb

[Sus_pilot]

I probably mentioned it some time in the past.  I was an MM/ELT.

Tautog 84-87
Jacksonville 87-89
Wm H. Bates 92-95
Cavalla 95-97

Ranb

Why do I know the Tautog?  Something about her is famous and I can't put my finger on it...

[Count Zero]

Tautog collided with a Soviet Echo class submarine in 1970.

[bknight]

Tautog collided with a Soviet Echo class submarine in 1970.

Why do I know the Tautog?  Something about her is famous and I can't put my finger on it...

Wouldn't that be infamous?

[smartcooky]

I probably mentioned it some time in the past.  I was an MM/ELT.

Tautog 84-87
Jacksonville 87-89
Wm H. Bates 92-95
Cavalla 95-97

Ranb

Wasn't that the same class submarine as the USS Dallas depicted in the film "The Hunt for Red October" and at around the same time the movie was filmed?

[JayUtah]

Wasn't that the same class submarine as the USS Dallas depicted in the film "The Hunt for Red October" and at around the same time the movie was filmed?

Not only the same class, but as sisterly as boats get:  SSN-699 and SSN-700.

[Count Zero]

The submarine used in the movie (playing the Dallas in the scene with the helicopter transfer) was USS Houston.  When filming a scene with any military vehicles, the production company is required to pay for the fuel and lubricants used by the vehicle (known as the POL - petrolium, oil & lubricants - expenses).  Since the Houston was nuclear powered, in the scene with the submarine and the helicopter the POL expenses for the helo was three times more than the submarine.

[Chew]

I probably mentioned it some time in the past.  I was an MM/ELT.

Tautog 84-87
Jacksonville 87-89
Wm H. Bates 92-95
Cavalla 95-97

Ranb

I came in an undesignated seaman then struck QM.
Ranger CV-61 82-85
Plunger 85-88
CSG-7/CTF-74 in Yokosuka 88-91
Went into the reserves and drilled on the Wadsworth FFG-9 93-99 then went back active
Providence 00-02
Seawolf 02-04
Augusta 04-07 my Anav tour

Were you on the Cavalla when they merged QM, IC, and Nav ET?

[Count Zero]

Went into the reserves and drilled on the Wadsworth FFG-9 93-99 then went back active

Back to "Red October", the Navy frigate that takes the crew off near the end was called the Reuben James (a nod to Tom Clancy's 2nd book, "Red Storm Rising"), but was actually played by two other ships: My ship, USS Gary which fired the shot across Red October's bow and rescued the men in the rafts (including me, who was on Gary from 88-91 and was one of the crew members hired as Russian crew extras), and your ship, USS Wadsworth, which was the one filmed next to the big explosion at the climax of the battle.

[Ranb]

I think the merger happened after I left the boat in 97.  I broke my leg and was on LIMDU for many months prior to going on shore duty.

Ranb