SSN 680 Plan of the Day
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- Brad Williamson
It's the Friday after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, as it's called in the world of retail, but not being a big shopper myself, I find myself relaxing in a hotel room in Canton, Ohio. I'm dropping off my teenage son tomorrow to audition for the Ohio Bluecoats, a precision drum and bugle corp of the marching variety. He's a fury of percussive energy on the practice pad next to me, but I have a few minutes to relax and reflect, and catch up on all the tasks I've been ignoring lately with the pressures of the current project. One of which happens to be this website.
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- Brad Williamson
For those of you that don't check the Tracking Party routinely, I'd recommend taking another look. I finally got tired of waiting for everybody to update their profiles, so in a fit of 'looking for something mindless to do' I went through and updated the locations for everybody not currently showing up on the Tracking Party map. (about 100 of you!)
So take a look and see who's nearby - you may have some 'new' shipmates as neighbors. If you don't find yourself on the map, it's because your address is not complete - go to your Profile, add a full address, street, city, state, and zipcode, then click 'Update'. If you still don't appear, notify me, and I will refresh the map database.
Time to get on the map if you aren't already, and check out who's nearby - you may find a shipmate or two that you'd like to get together with now that you know you live in the same neck of the woods!
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иветствуйте на борту, капитан сначала занимают место
Igor Kurdin! We are honored to have you as our guest.
Politics made us enemies, but our chosen profession and the cruel sea herself has made us brothers. May God bless our future by making us friends.
With these words I would welcome Captain First Rank (Ret.) Igor Kurdin to the ssn-680.org website.
Steven Perry and I met Igor Kurdin at the USSVI conference that was being held in San Diego the week after our REGROUPEX 09. Since the International Submariners Association was also meeting with the USSVI, we happened to chance upon Igor and his friends and family at poolside below our suite on Monday after most everyone else had departed.
Captain Kurdin was the commanding officer of the K-84, the Delta IV missile boat 'Ektarinaburg' in 1990-94, served as the XO of the K-219 that was lost off the US coast in 1986, as well as the K-418 and K-241. He is noted as the co-author of the book 'Hostile Waters' along with Peter Huchthuasen, describing the explosion of a missile onboard the K-219, and her subsequent sinking as she was being towed back to her homeport.
Please welcome Igor onboard, and extend to him every courtesy due a fellow submariner and submarine commander.
As a gentle reminder to the crew, as is our strict policy on this website, ensure that your posts do not contain any references to things that never happened during patrols that we didn't go on in places we never went. Security restrictions, though 25 years old or more, have not necessarily lapsed, and references to information that doesn't exist is not appropriate for many of our guests.
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Dave Gordon, former Sonar Tech aboard the USS WILLIAM H. BATES (SSN 680) (78-81) is currently serving in Afghanistan with the U.S. Army in a support role (we hope). They call it the NArmy...go figure! He went to training in South Carolina at an Army base, spent some time in Kuwait, and now is in Kabul (as of Sept. 6-7). He even had dinner at the U.S. Embassy the other night! I'm not sure where exactly he is stationed.
Dave has been active in the Naval Reserves off and on over the last 20+ years, During that time he evolved from a ST to a MC (Mass Communications Specialist), and even made Chief in 2008!! In recent years, he has stretched his annual two-week deployment to a month or more each time, traveling with and documenting/reporting the exploits of Navy and other military forces around the world as part of his new rate.
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FOUND: one brown sweat-stained baseball style cap, in Suite 1110 at the Town & Country - somebody obviously upgraded to the William H. Bates ballcap, and in a fog of margarita or India Pale Ale, forgot the hat he wore to REGROUPEX 09.
Contact me and tell me what city and state is on the ball cap, what festival the hat commemorates, and what your mailing address is, and it will be on its way back to you faster than sailors departing the Bates on liberty.
