>Or deliver commandos, or rescue downed airmen, or monitor a surface
>fleet's radio communications, or track test missiles, or locate things
>on the ocean bottom, or tap undersea communications cables... Or even radar picket duty (before the advent of AEW & AWACS planes). Our resident submarine in Pittsburgh, U.S.S. Requin, was a radar picket at one point in her career.
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Eric J. Heckathorn
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