Becoming A Submariner

I thought about it, and liked the idea. I too liked submarines, there was something alluring about them, always mysterious and dangerous. One movie I had watched while at home in West New York on TV, which fascinated me was Ice Station Zebra. This was the days before movies like Red October, which would come much later. I found that submarine movie pretty cool, and always remembered it, so once my buddies had presented me with the idea of joining them in the Submarine Force I liked it. Plus never mind that by being a Submariner you were now part on an elite part of the Navy, a member of a close nit brotherhood, which was very unique, something that I had tried to do by being a fighter pilot, but that was now basically out of my grasp Also, the technical training the Navy gave (and still gives) Submariners was one of the best, if not in the Navy but also in the world. As in one video documentary about the Submarine Navy shows, the Navy “pumps” a lot of money into the submarine crews in the form of advance technical training, because every member of that submarine crew had to know a lot of things in order to be able to save that submarine in an emergency. …show more content…
I went to the base administration offices and requested to be cross-rated from STG (Sonar Technician Surface) to STS (Sonar Technician Submarines), and my request was granted. The thing was that now I wasn’t going to go to Sonar Tech “A” school, I had to first go to New London Connecticut, and survive BESS or Basic Enlisted Submarine School first before I was allowed to precede with my Sonar Tech “A” school. And so new orders were cut for me to go to Connecticut and BESS or SubSchool for

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