SSN 680 Plan of the Day
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The site commenting system is back in business! One of the many things left to port over from the old site to the new one, the comment system was a complex one that defied easy migration. I finally got up the courage to take it on recently, and am pleased to say that this vital piece of the ssn-680.org website is now installed and functioning. Better yet, none of the 228 comments that had previously been made on the old site were lost. Every comment came through intact, still associated with the correct article and person making the comment, at least as far as I could tell!
So now there is even one more reason to browse the history of the Bates that we have captured on the site. You can comment on any article or photo gallery that you would like, having your comments recorded for posterity...
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The site continues to evolve in response to your feedback. Several of you had commented on the slideshows at the top of each page and asked if there was an easier way to view the photos and read the captions, and it turns out that after a little work, there is!
A new menu item has been added to the Up Scope! menu, called Showcase. Selecting Showcase opens a list of image Showcases. Each Showcase is a gallery of images found elsewhere on the site - either in the slideshows previously mentioned or just images of special interest or artistic merit that you might find interesting.
The galleries are a preview of the evolution of every photo gallery on the website. Each gallery shows thumbnails of all the gallery images, and so you can scan the whole gallery at a glance. Clicking on any image opens the gallery, which expands the images to fit the size of browser window...
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It's been a month since I found out about "The Trident Deception" by Rick Campbell, and I finally found time to read it. OK, I've been reading a lot, and I also read "Punk's War" by Ward Carroll, and "Tales of a Cold War Submariner" by Dan Summitt at the same time, so it was more about finding time to sit down and write a brief review despite it having been a couple of weeks since I finished it, but more about those later.
So, in short, regarding "The Trident Deception", I'll jump straight to my recommendation - buy it and read it!
If you need a few more words, it is one the best I've read since Tom Clancy, God rest his soul, penned "The Hunt for Red October" back in the year I got married, one year before I left the USS William H. Bates. It's that good!...
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Today's School of the Boat lesson is on sharing. Not like the cookies and milk stuff you learned about in Kindergarten, more like the "hey, I found the best lumpia and shrimp fried rice in this little joint on Magsaysay Boulevard! You got to check it out!" kind of sharing. So listen up because everybody gets qualified on this one, no exceptions. This is some of the fundamental training, like phone-talking, or using an EAB. You just have to know it!
First, let's revisit the mission. On the boat, the mission changed routinely depending on the needs of the country as defined in the most current tasking orders. Here on the www.ssn-680.org website, the mission is defined by one constant theme: locate and connect with every sailor that has ever been assigned to the USS WILLIAM H. BATES (SSN 680). Pretty simple and straightforward...
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This image is designed to be used as a cover photo in Facebook and it's size and layout make it fit Facebook and LinkedIn accounts with ease. In the spirit of true shipmates, feel free to upload to your account if you desire, and share with your friends through Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter and other social media.
