FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport, Washington ~ 09 July 2019

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[Kathy in Alaska]

And in second....The Mayor snags the silver!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

And rounding out the top three....mountainlion bags the bronze!!

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good Tuesday morning and ((HUGS)) to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country and thanks Lauren for this morning's thread.

How's everyone doing this morning?

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

No rain today and none expected tomorrow. Maybe we’ll get some Wed. and the corn would appreciate it. The half inch yesterday wasn’t enough but was better than nothing.

Keeping all appendages crossed for luck on your heat wave breaking at last. Y’all need a break! And you reeeeeeeally need some rain and I hope you do get some this weekend. The firefighters must be exhausted from fighting wildfires so long.

[radu]

Howdy, E.G.C. ((HUGZ))

How did things go at the lake yesterday? Nothing and no one to interfere with your and Gizmo’s fun, I hope.

[E.G.C.]

Well, the picnic table row was empty and we got to spend quite a bit of time out in the grass area over by the boat ramp. Gizmo had a lot of fun out there. There were a couple of people of boats but they were out in the lake.

[radu]

Isn’t the picnic table area where you first ran into wasps? I gather none bothered you this time.
Nice that y’all had the place to yourselves for a change. More fun for Gizmo because he’s free to roam and sniff. :-)

[E.G.C.]

Thankfully there were no wasps around. Was a little cool yesterday. I have to do some mowing this morning.

We will be doing a ride in the country instead of going to the lake later today because they just issued a Heat Advisory for our area today.

[radu]

It was a little cool yesterday? I’m jealous! LOL
We just stay hot and muggy day after day with no breaks in sight right now.

Good idea to just ride around later today since the heat’s going to crank back up.
And you won’t have to keep an eye out for wasps. :-)

[right way right]

Hey, my dad worked at Keyport for his whole career life.
Civil service worked on secret squirrel torpedo parts.
Never talked about it.
What was it he said, Something like....
“What you see here does not leave here.”
He could only talk about the sign, and he said that he might still have to kill me because, he had talked about the sign.

[beachn4fun]

We are burning! Lots of burning. And we’ve had high 80s for a couple weeks.

Oh my goodness. That is hot for AK. It might be related to the fires and earthquakes we've had in the lower 40 and the jet stream, of course. Hope you are keeping cool while at work.

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, Everyone.

Good morning to our

Military, our Allies, and their families.

Thank you, Lauren/Ma, for preparing the
Canteen for today’s activities

Just a fly-by post to say hello.

Having hubby home is throwing me off.
We're still dealing with job hunting/unemployment/health insurance.

Some areas in Maryland has had flooding;
not sure about Virginia.
And, still, after years of being told not to,
people drive through standing/rushing water and get stranded. Tsk.

Please stay.
Grab a cup of joe or tasty tea.
Chat with the military and/or the family they left behind.

The FR Canteen is

Come on in and sit for a while.
There's always plenty of coffee, tea,
pancakes, conversation,
silliness,
and plain old BS

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[luvie]

Gooooood mornin', Early Birds!
Well, guess what?
It's gonna be H🔥T!
Supposed to get up to 104.
I hope it doesn't.
How are y'all doing?
Lots of fun summer things to do?
My fun comes next month.
Going to see my kids in WY!
Y'all have a Terrific Tuesday!
(((hugs)))

[Vineyard]

From the info post - “NAVSEA has two warfare centers: Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC).”

NUWC has two centers - Division Newport and Division Keyport. Division Newport (Rhode Island) - is regarded by some of the Keyport personnel (and I was one -from 1986 to 2000) - as ‘The Borg’. Newport believes it is the real center for technical work, and has made efforts to remove any specialty/technical work from Keyport and move it back to Newport.

Newport has its own reputation regarding torpedo development...one that is not well known, and is not favorable to Newport. Newport does design and testing of torpedoes, and keeps the results ‘closely held’....and has hid problems with a shroud of secrecy. This has led to significant problems. During WWII - the initial submarine efforts in the Pacific against the Japanese were hampered by defective torpedoes. Torpedoes ran too deep (below setting) - and their exploders (magnetic or contact) were severely deficient. Newport typically blamed problems on ‘operator error’ - and minimized reports where submarines got close to a target, fired a spread of torpedoes -and heard on sonar the impact of a torpedo on the side of a target, yet the torpedo contact exploder failed to cause the warhead to detonate. Oops.

Moving forward past WWII - other torpedo problems occurred, and the Newport management kept avoiding responsibility by hiding results or shifting blame. In the book “Blind Man’s Bluff” by Sherry Sonntag, the discussion of the loss of the USS Scorpion included the possibility of a torpedo design deficiency being the root of the problem. The design deficiency was identified by Keyport’s (then - Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering Station - NUWES) Quality Assurance (QA) Division - but Newport ignored reports. (A copy of a memo from NUWES is in one of the Appendices to the book.)

Keyport has been downsized...and Newport tries to move work away from Keyport, but the people at Keyport have found new projects and new ‘customers’ to bring work to Keyport. Lots of very good people there, and they do lots of innovative work!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Wow, ETR....those are some really good looking planes!

Really enjoyed the air show.

Thanks for the links.

[Kathy in Alaska]

AN EXTRAORDINARY CODE OF HONOUR - A HIGHER CALL

I've heard this story before, but this video fills in a lot of gaps. So happy that they found each other.

Thanks, ETR!