Comment:  Old News and New News regarding Submarines -- talk about pulling a long alert!  My longest was a ND winter storm -- multiple days trapped by blizzard conditions.  Best helicopter ride back to base when weather finally broke and seeing massive drifts on roadways.  Back in 1968, were it available, I would have volunteered for the Sub Exchange Program especially after  one of the instructors at VAFB told us of his visit to a Sub base and getting a tour of a nuclear sub.   With the motor generator set always running under the suspended floor and the massive airflow rushing all around us -- this made it seem like we were always being propelled to somewhere.

Close encounter with WWII -- special project for USN over 5 years -- got me here -- allowing one to climb and stand on the conning tower of a Sub that saw combat in WWII.

Second article below:  Read how USN handled 727 days out!

https://www.militarynews.com/news/interservice-exchange-program-strengthens-submarine-force/article_e86f4f7a-c1ac-11eb-a12d-77adfc8e13f0.html

Interservice Exchange Program strengthens Submarine Force

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https://www.twz.com/air/secretive-guided-missile-submarine-uss-floridas-leadership-talks-about-their-727-day-deployment

Secretive Guided Missile Submarine USS Florida’s Leadership Talks About Their 727-Day Deployment

Rare Look Inside the Sub:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjuzJODdH8Q

Sailors assigned to Ohio class guided-missile submarine USS Florida (SSGN 728) make preparations to moor after returning to homeport at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia, following a 727-day deployment.M

 U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Travis S. Alston/Re

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