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In 1966 our shop (Groton) was tasked to outfit the Scorpion SSN-589 with the usual package. As was the practice, three of us would do the installation. Two of us would drive the truck with the equipment to Norfolk, and the rider (Matman) from our shop, who was to make the trip, would fly down an meet us there. The installation went pretty much as usual, except for the fact the boats op schedule had been moved up and we were hard pressed for time. We use to install an open microphone in the control room, which we called the “white rat”. As I was taping this thing into the overhead, one of the ship’s company, an ST2 wanted to know if I had an extra microphone, which I did, and gave it to him. He wanted to know how he could return the favor. I said a can of coffee for the shop would be great. End of story. We packed up the mess we always had, and headed back to Groton. We got back on a Saturday, I left the truck in the parking area, and went home. Early Sunday morning I get a call from the AOIC (John Arnold) wanting to know what went wrong on the installation. We had received a “prioity one shipment of classifed material” from Scorpion. I met LTjg. Arnold at the shop and we proceeded to Shiping and Receiveing to retreive our package. A large wooden crate that was almost too big for the pick-up we had. Back at the shop, we opened our mysterious gift, to find two cans of government issue coffee. No note...nothing, just two cans of coffee.