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    U.S. Navy submarine training: "Where a nuke can be a nuke"

    [ that's it! I spent many a night there... When I went through school I lived up past the McGregor Country Club and then moved closer to town on north on Hwy 9 when I got accepted to stay. I then met a townie that I ended up marrying and we moved to an apartment across the street from the...
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    U.S. Navy submarine training: "Where a nuke can be a nuke"

    So Nords, I take it that was around '83? Well after I left and actually was out of the Navy. I remember dating a girl who lived near Galway, just north of Kesselring Site. They thought that the steam they saw coming off the plant (especially the cooling towers of D1G) were clouds of...
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    U.S. Navy submarine training: "Where a nuke can be a nuke"

    I ended up in Ft Collins 'cause it had much nicer weather than upstate NY, which doesn't take much. And was affordable! I think we named it the Grapefruit because both halves were like emptied grapefruit halves with the membranes still in place. I don't remember if it was how it was...
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    U.S. Navy submarine training: "Where a nuke can be a nuke"

    I stumbled on this forum googling about the S7G (MARF) reactor. Gumby, what was MARF like when you were there? Did they still call it "Flushing the reactor" when it was scrammed? Also, did the "grapefruit" propulsion control unit still work (the thing to "burn up the energy of the propulsion...
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