USS San Francisco Investigation Completed

Navy Newsstand ^ | 5/9/2005 3:11:00 PM | U.S. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs

[bkwells]

It's my understanding (from a surface type) that the statement "compared charts" meant that the ship track plots from both the NAV dept and Combat (CIC, CDC) were compared for accuracy and they matched up. In other words, NAV would plot out the ship's track and combat would do the same and then they would compare tracks and made sure that they match as well as having updated Notice to Mariners plotted.

[bkwells]

Walker was a spy back in the 70's and 80' I believe. Gave up a lot of comms secrets to the ruskies.

[SmithL]

John Walker:

He sold out his Country, recruited his whole family, and gave all of America's Submarine secrets to the KGB, all in exchange for a few dollars. There is a special underwater hell for John Anthony Walker, Jr.

FAMILY OF SPIES: THE JOHN WALKER JR. SPY CASE

[Stonewall Jackson]

Hate to tell you this, but San Francisco is an honored and respected name in the US Navy. On the morning of November 13, 1942, Captain Cassin Young and Rear Admiral Daniel Callaghan, who were both posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (Callaghan for this battle and Young for saving his ship, the repair ship Vestal at Pearl Harbor), took the 10,000-ton San Francisco up against the 33,000-ton Japanese battleship Hiei, which sported 14-inch guns against San Francisco's 8-inchers. Despite being severely mangled by the Japanese battleship's massive weapons, the cruiser still managed to inflict enough damage on the enemy vessel that the Hiei was unable to evade the aircraft launched from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal.

Despite the fact that the city of San Francisco has fallen to the levels of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Navy chooses to remember the city of a better time.

[BIGLOOK]

Thanks for cluing me, Master Chief!

[Cuttnhorse]

Thanks for your comments, Ramius. It is true, "you have to have been there" to really understand.

I spent a year on Swift Boats, (12-months, not 4) and on our first solo patrol after taining we ran hard aground on an uncharted sand bar. I was a seaman at the time, but to make matters worse, we had to be pulled off by an 85-foot Coast Guard vessel...boy were we red-faced! but happy to see those guys. There was minor damage to one screw and shaft.

The whole crew had to go to Saigon for an inquiry that resembled the Cain Mutiny trial; you would have thought
we ran a carrier aground. Our boat commander, a Ltjg was not promoted in the year we were in Nam...The Navy takes groundings very seriously.

QM was a great rating...next week I am bareboat chartering a 36-foot twin-diesel boat in the San Juan Islands and am having a ball going over charts and pre-plotting courses and anchorages. It will just be captain Cuttnhorse and Admiral wifey on board.

Regards

[Ramius]

next week I am bareboat chartering a 36-foot twin-diesel boat in the San Juan Islands and am having a ball going over charts and pre-plotting courses and anchorages. It will just be captain Cuttnhorse and Admiral wifey on board.

Hah! Outstanding... I'm instantly jealous. You'll have a wonderful time, which perhaps you know if you've done it before. I practically grew up doing the San Juans in summers on the family boat. I bareboated a sailboat up there some years later too. I'm itching to go back. Hoping to have a new boat for such purpose before too long.

Have a great trip! :-)

[FreedomCalls]

//Links corrected//

Complete declassified reports here:

1st End - C7F
2nd End - CSP.pdf
3rd End - CPF
BASIC 001 TO 019
BASIC 020 TO 039
BASIC 040 TO 059
BASIC 060 TO 079
BASIC 080 TO 099
BASIC 100 TO 124

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Bump!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

When I was in nuke school, this bastard's conviction was pretty new. They used him as a case study. Selling out your country is not something you can take back (Jane Fonda take note). The short term money may be tempting but it's a slimy POS thing to do. Aside from the punishments, it's WRONG.

Personally, I hope John Walker goes to a hell like Dante's Inferno, where his eternal punishment is connected to his treachery.