Published Quarterly by the USS Tullibee SSN 597 Association

Bill Keel Association Commander, 815-715-9966, [email protected]

Fourth Edition, 27 March 2011

Commander’s Corner

REUNION 2011! You can go ahead and one another more start making hotel convenient. If you are reservations at any going to the reunion and The reunion is getting time. You can call the book a room, please let closer. So far, we have 47 toll-free number or the me know so I can keep a shipmates that have indicated local (Branson) number count. Remember to pass that they will be attending the to make reservations. on the word to your Although there are less shipmates! reunion. Many others have expensive properties in indicated an interest but have the area, this is one of Reunion Site not made a determination. A the only ones that has Radisson Hotel few of those saying they will meeting rooms and a 120 South Wildwood Drive attend have not sent me the banquet facility so that Branson, MO 65616 reunion fee or booked a hotel we will not have to travel from the hotel to Room Rate: $83/night + room at the Radisson. Please a banquet. We will also take care of this so planning can applicable taxes (11.7%) be able to maintain a continue. See the list of those hospitality suite, like To Make a Reservation attending later in this we did in Mystic. The call 800-967-9033 newsletter. Since this will be Radisson has a full Local# 417-335-5767 the last newsletter prior to the service restaurant, lots Online: of parking, and a sports reunion, I am including the lounge with big screen www.radisson.com/usstullibee. reunion information here. TV's that also makes a Radisson Hotel Branson: good place for small http://bransonradisson.c groups to get together Reunion Site and om/ to visit. I hope Information--Radisson everyone will book here Hotel; Make your so that we will be able Make your plans reservations now!! to ensure we fill our today to join us in block of rooms commitment and will be Branson! able to make visiting

Submarines Lost/Damaged During the Month of March

*****USS Tullibee (SS-284) 26-Mar-1944. 79 men lost, one taken POW and survived the war. ***** USS F-4 (SS-23) 25-Mar-1915. 21 men lost. USS H-1 (SS-28) 12-Mar-1920. Four men lost. USS Perch (SS-176) 3-Mar-1942. 60 taken prisoner, 52 survived the war. USS Grampus (SS-207) 5-Mar-1943. All hands lost (72). USS Triton (SS-201) 15-Mar-1943. All hands lost (74). USS Kete (SS-369) 20-Mar-1945. All hands lost (87). USS Trigger (SS-237) 28-Mar-1945. All hands lost (91).

USS Tullibee (SS-284) March 26, 1944 – 79 Men Lost

USS Tullibee (SS-284), 1943-1944 USS Tullibee, a 1525-ton Gato class built at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, was commissioned in mid-February 1943. She left the East Coast for the Pacific in May and began her first war patrol in July 1943. This took her into the area, where she was rammed while attacking a Japanese convoy on 5 August. Despite her damage, Tullibee remained on patrol, later sinking one ship and damaging another. Her next mission, during September-November 1943, took her into the target-rich East China Sea. On this patrol she attacked two convoys, sank one freighter and used her deck gun to shell an enemy-occupied island. In mid-December 1943 Tullibee left Pearl Harbor for her third war patrol, as a member of a three- submarine "wolf pack". Operating near the Marianas, the group unsuccessfully attacked a Japanese submarine and damaged the escort carrier Unyo, but its only sinking was the net tender Hiro Maru, which Tullibee torpedoed at the end of January. She was sent to the area for her fourth patrol, which began early in March. On the 26th of that month, while attacking a convoy, USS Tullibee was sunk when one of her own torpedoes apparently circled back and hit her. Only one Sailor survived from her crew of eighty officers and men.

"We shall never forget that it was our that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds," Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, USN

What is “Decklog” and Why is How do I Access my Decklog had two diesel engines and it Important for me to Account? sophisticated navigational equipment that would enable it to Register?” travel to Mexico while remaining In order to access your up to 30 feet below the surface of One of the outstanding decklog information so that you the Pacific Ocean. The vessel was tools that is available by which can verify your information, or set up for a crew of four but was unoccupied when found, RTT shipmates can locate each other more importantly, communicate reported. Officials estimated it to touch base is provided by the with shipmates, simply go to would have cost $2 million to build. USSVI: Decklog. Decklog is a either our boat’s webpage, The submarine is just the latest database that is set up by boat. www.decklog.com/ssn-597.asp or example of crafts smugglers have It lists home information, email the USSVI home page at made to try to get their illicit cargo past law enforcement. Last year, addresses, phone numbers, and www.ussvi.org. In either case, go VBS.TV got access to the other information (any or all of to the Member Login area and Colombian naval base where this information can be blocked enter your user name and many captured smuggling vessels and made inaccessible to password. When you get to the are taken. shipmates upon your request). In login page, there is a prompt so order to access decklog that you can have your password Super-stealth sub powered by information for Tullibee (SSN sent to you. If you are fuel cell 597) sailors, one must have registered on decklog and cannot - From Frederik Pleitgen, CNN served on Tullibee and be get your password, email registered in decklog. So, it is [email protected] and I will not a marketing tool and lists are get it for you. not sold or distributed. Some shipmates have Decklog is important asked that certain information— Associations and reunion home address, email address, or committees because it allows phone number(s)—be blocked those in charge to have from other shipmates. communication with former Understanding that some people Eckernfoerde, Germany (CNN) crewmembers of a respective want privacy, it needs to be It is almost totally silent, radiates boat. It is very important that understood that if you block virtually no heat and is constructed submariners register on decklog information to shipmates, you entirely from non-magnetic metals. and that they periodically update will not be able to access other Meet the U212A -- an ltraadvanced their information! shipmates’ information. non-nuclear sub developed by To register on Decklog German naval shipyard Howaldtswerke Deutsche for USS Tullibee SSN 597, Werft, who claims it to be "the simply type in the address Navy News peak of German submarine www.decklog.com/ssn-597.asp technology." 100-foot-long narco sub found and then click on “Crews Lists.” And few would argue. The in Colombia super-stealth vessel is the first of Then click on “Join the Crew.” CNN-February 15th, 2011 its kind to be powered by a You will get a questionnaire to The homemade drug revolutionary hydrogen fuel cell complete. It doesn’t take long to submarine was found in a rural that lets it cruise the deep blue complete this! area of Timbiqui. The Colombian without giving off noise or exhaust military has seized a 100-foot-long heat. That's important, because ***If you are getting this submarine capable of transporting eight tons of cocaine from according to Bernd Arjes, a captain newsletter by mail, write or Colombia to Mexico, news reports in the German Navy, silence keeps call Bill Keel for a printed say. The vessel was found in a submariners alive. questionnaire. jungle area in Timbiqui in "We operate in coastal southwestern Colombia on waters around Europe and this submarine is specially designed for Please complete or update your Sunday, according to a report from RTT News. Colombian navy finding submarines. If you want to decklog registration now. officials said the homemade sub find other submarines of course Navy: New Subs to be Designed Electric Boat in Groton, the you have to be quiet," he said. for Women prime contractor for the Virginia With this latest technology, he The Day, New London, Conn class program, has been working added, "the boat is virtually on the design of the ballistic undetectable." The Navy says it's about to missile submarine. A spokesman But being indistinguishable start spending money to design referred all questions to the Navy. is not the only thing that sets the women's accommodations for EB has not yet been asked to U212A apart. Unlike conventional Virginia-class and future ballistic make any changes to the Virginia subs,which need air to combust missile submarines. class design, Jones said. "We're diesel, the fuel cell doesn't require The Navy officially lifted just going to evaluate the oxygen to operate. the ban on women serving aboard possibility," he said. "As we bring This means it can remain submarines in the spring. Twenty- women into the Submarine Force, submerged for many weeks -- four women have already begun we're looking at different holding its breath many times training to serve as early as the accommodations on different longer than its gas-guzzling end of this year as officers on platforms." cousins. ballistic-missile and guided-missile Jones could not give a You'd expect a boat like submarines. timeline or say how much money this to pack a punch, and you'd be The Navy's initial plans did would be spent on the endeavors. right.The 212A is armed with 12 not include enlisted women, or the The letter to Congress stated that heavyweight wire guided smaller fast-attack submarines the desired flexibility would be torpedoes, each capable of because of the perceived lack of "achieved in a fiscally responsible destroying a war ship or disabling privacy. manner." an aircraft carrier. Now the Defense "An aircraft carrier might Department has notified Congress not break with one but that the Navy will design the next USS Memphis Returns from probably gets hit at the rudder or generation of ballistic-missile Final Overseas Mission something. And then he probably submarines with the flexibility to Lt. Patrick Evans, Submarine Group 2 can't maneuver into the wind to accommodate female crew PublicAffairs Officer use his aircraft," said Arjes. members. Beginning this fiscal Germany, which has no year, the Navy will also study how nuclear weapons or nuclear to reconfigure Virginia-class powered ships of its own, is the submarines to bring women on world's third largest exporter of board. defense goods. The Navy plans to buy 12 HDW began developing ballistic-missile submarines to the technology for the U212A in replace the 14 current Ohio-class, 1994, with the first vessels or Trident, boats that are nearing the end of their service lives. The reaching market in 2003. Dressed as city of Memphis favorite lead ship in this new class will not Export editions have already son Elvis Presley, Chief Fire Control be purchased until 2019. been sold to the navies of Greece, Technician Brian Paugh poses on top "Design of the Ohio Portugal and South Korea. of USS Memphis (SSN 691) as the replacement is the next anticipated But sub-aquatic sailors around submarine returned to Naval expenditure of funds in the Navy's the world should think twice before Submarine Base New London approach to assign women within getting too excited over this new following her final deployment. A the Submarine Force," the toy. decommissioning ceremony will be With a high degree of Defense Department stated in its held for the Los Angeles-class letter to Congress. selfautomation, the sub requires submarine April 1. (U.S. Navy photograph only a small crew and there is The design change is by Mass Communication Specialist Virginia K. extraordinarily little in the way of needed should the Navy allow Schaefer/Released) creature comforts for those few on enlisted women to serve on board. submarines. Female officers can Los Angeles-class attack And so it seems that even serve on the current ballistic- submarine USS Memphis (SSN with all this state-of-the-art missile submarineswithout any 691) returned to Naval Submarine technology, a submariners life still modifications to thesubs. Base New London March 2, remains one of confined living "There will be flexibility if marking the end of her final quarters and shared bunks. our policy changes," Lt. Cmdr. overseas mission. Next month, Mark C. Jones, spokesman for the the Navy will hold a commander of the Submarine decommissioning ceremony for Force, said Thursday, adding that Memphis, which has been in "women officers are going to lead service for more than 30 years, the way for the study of the spanning six presidents. The integration of enlisted females." ceremony is scheduled for April 1 at 1:00 p.m. at the submarine responsible for the legacy of the hesitate to contact me either by base. ship." email at [email protected] When Memphis arrived, Previously, Joseph or by phone at (860) 514-7064. most crewmembers were wearing previously served as deputy Base POCs please give this their black service dress uniforms, commander of readiness for message widest dissemination. but Chief Fire Control Technician Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl John would prefer that the Brian Paugh was dressed in a Harbor, . He was also Base Commanders collect the white jumpsuit with rhinestones, executive officer of USS names of all your members who depicting music icon Elvis Presley. Louisville (SSN 724). want to attend and just provide him "Since I love Elvis, and I love Lahti returns to Submarine with one list, but he will take Johnny cash - both are from Development Squadron 12 as individual contact form members Memphis, Tenn. - I said, 'Sure. Deputy Commander. as well. Why not? I'll do it,'" said Paugh. Commissioned Dec. 17, Many crewmembers are 1977, Memphis became an remembering this final deployment Atlantic Fleet operational asset as Feb. 23, 1942: Invasion! They’re with reverence. "There've been part of Submarine Squadron 8 in Coming! lots of great chiefs who have come Norfolk, Va., in 1978. All current By Tony Long before me, who have served on and former crew members, their Memphis," said Paugh. "I've met a families, and friends are cordially lot of them over this past year with invited to attend activities the boat decommissioning and connected to the historic everything. To be able to say I was decommissioning ceremony. More one of the last chiefs in the chief's information about the event can be quarters is a great honor and a found online at privilege." www.Memphisdecom.wordpress.com. Memphis, which departed Jan. 10, supported missions in the European Command area of USS MEMPHIS DEACTIVATION responsibility. "The deployment Submitted by: James A Fox went excellent," said Capt. Carl Lahti, Memphis commanding Shipmates, officer. "The crew performed extremely well. We fulfilled all of Today we received word of our missions exactly as we were the USS MEMPHIS tasked overseas. I'm particularly DEACTIVATION CEREMONY. We proud of the crew and the effort know that this is a pretty short 1942: A Japanese long-range they put in to get the 33-year old turnaround so John Carcioppolo submarine surfaces off the ship prepared. We are in excellent needs to get word out to the California coast and uses its 5½- condition." "Not sure if you guys USSVI/USSVI WWII members as inch deck gun to shell an oil realize it, but what you just pulled soon as possible. refinery near Santa Barbara. off here with this fairly short John is the central point of The attack, which lasted about deployment overseas has contact for members of both 20 minutes, caused little damage accredited you rock star status in SUBVETS and WWII SUBVETS. If to the Ellwood refinery. But it the submarine force," Capt. you are interested in attending the helped to stoke fears, which had William Merz, commodore of ceremony please contact John existed since the raid on Pearl Submarine Development with your name, full mailing Harbor 10 weeks earlier, that the Squadron 12 told the crew of address, email address, telephone Japanese might be preparing a Memphis. "While you were number, and number of tickets full-scale invasion of the West brilliantly completing your desired no later than FRIDAY Coast. missions, you enabled a dozen MARCH 11, 2011. John’s email is In Philip K. Dick’s 1962 other ships to better complete [email protected]. novel, The Man in the High Castle, theirs." If you previously served the Japanese not only plan a U.S. Shortly after the aboard USS MEMPHIS please invasion, they carry it off. In reality, homecoming, Capt. Carl Lahti indicate the years you served though, the Imperial High turned over command of Memphis onboard and you rate while Command envisioned nothing of to Cmdr. Jeffery Joseph, who will onboard. John will provide one the sort, lacking both the military lead the submarine through the listing of all SUBVETS/SUBVETS capacity and a strategic reason for decommissioning and inactivation WWII wanting to attend to the invasion. process. "It's a distinct honor to be Squadron Twelve Command Cmdr. Nishino Kozo, the last commanding officer," said Master Chief who will ensure that skipper of the I-17, was familiar Joseph. "It is a unique tickets are provided. If you should with the Ellwood refinery, having responsibility because we are have any questions please don’t docked there as the captain of an in any event, showed the extent to with devastating effect on Allied oil tanker before the war. A Parade which submarine technology had shipping. magazine article in 1982 advanced since World War I. suggested that Kozo staged the The I-17 was a B1-class --Wear your Dolphins - you earned them!— raid on his own initiative, in submarine: 350 feet long, with retaliation for a slight he suffered 2,200 tons surface displacement, during a prewar visit to Ellwood. and by far the largest combat sub Whether Kozo took the opportunity to see service during World War II. to settle an old score is unknown. By comparison, Germany’s largest He never said. (The I-17 was on long-range combat U-boat, the combat patrol along the Pacific IXD, was 70 feet shorter and Coast. Five days after shelling the displaced barely 1,600 tons when refinery, Kozo torpedoed an surfaced. American tanker off Cape A generation earlier, World Mendocino.) War I subs were smaller, carried

Kozo’s gunnery display fewer torpedoes and had a much scared the bejesus out of the more limited range. Kozo was Tullibee Ship’s Store already skittish Americans. On the able to take advantage of the fact night following I-17’s shelling of the that American coastal defenses Need Tullibee SSN -597 stuff? refinery, trigger-happy anti-aircraft were poorly organized in early We’ve got it! Go to the boat’s gunners in Los Angeles lit up the 1942. German U-boat webpage at www.usstullibee.com night sky with tracer ammunition commanders on the East Coast and click on the submarine with for a couple of hours after spotting were discovering the same thing, “Boat Reunion Home.” It has a some UFOs. The refinery shelling, Ship’s Store link.

USS Tullibee SSN 597 Association

Are you a member? If not, consider starting the year off by getting a membership. Yearly or lifetime memberships are available!

See the boat’s web page at www.usstullibee for information.

Looking forward to including you on our roll for the 2011 year!

If you are not on the Association Membership list, now would be a great time to be added! If your regular yearl-to-year dues have expired, please renew at this time. You can still renew at just $10 per year, or obtain a lifetime membership!

LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP DUES:

The rates are as follows and are based upon the member's age at time of payment of lifetime dues: Age 65 and Over: $50.00; Age 60-64: $75.00; Age 50-59: $100.00; Age 49 and under: $150.00.

Make checks out to “USS Tullibee SSN 597 Association” and send them to:

Bill Keel c/o USS Tullibee SSN 597 Association 606 Avignon Lane Shreveport, LA 71115 USS Tullibee SSN-597 Association Members as of 26 March 2011 and Expiration of Membership Dates:

1. Anderson, Robert Life Member 2. Arnstam, Mark Life Member 3. Arnstam, Cindy Associate Life Member 4. Ash, Sandi Honorary Life Member 5. Banister, David Life Member 6. Barnhart, Tom Life Member 7. Baumstark, James Life Member 8. Bell, David Life Member 9. Black, Lee Life Member 10. Blankenship, Sterling Life Member 11. Bode, Robert Life Member 12. Burt, Stephen Life Member 13. Cassell, Michael Life Member 14. Clark. Mark End of 2013 15. Coons, Robert Life Member 16. Coover, Larry Life Member 17. Corcoran, William Life Member 18. Cosentino, Dean Life Member 19. Cowles, William Life Member 20. Davis, John Life Member 21. Doe, Barry Life Member 22. Dommers, Richard Life Member 23. Drooker, Michael Life Member 24. Dunckel, David Life Member 25. Dunkin, Robert Life Member 26. Dvorak, Dave Life Member 27. Elmer, Jim Life Member 28. Ewan, Joel Life Member 29. Farnon, Thomas Life Member 30. Fleitz, John Life Member 31. Foster, Tim Life Member 32. Gildner, Max Life Member 33. Haldeman, Harry Life Member 34. Hambor, William Life Member 35. Hargan, Tony Life Member 36. Holstrom, Anton End of 2013 37. Ingraham. Collin Life Member 38. Keel, Bill Life Member 39. Kippley, Martin Life Member 40. Kuemper, Roger Life Member 41. Kuykendall, Clifford Honorary Life Member (SS-284) 42. Lesnet, Michael Life Member 43. Lister, William Honorary Life Member (SS-284) 44. Lundberg, Dennis Life Member 45. Mackensen, Warren Life Member 46. Maddox, Roy Life Member 47. McCollern, Robert End of 2011 48. McGann, William Life Member 49. McKeon, James Honorary Life Member (SS-284) 50. Munro, Jake Life Member 51. Onorato, Howard Life Member 52. Peluso, Joseph Life Member 53. Peterson, Scott End of 2011 54. Phelps, Derek End of 2011 55. Plummer, Rudy End of 2011 56. Raby, Tom Life Member 57. Repphun, Brian Life Member 58. Riley, John Life Member 59. Rogers, Alton Life Member – Plank Owner 60. Romberg, Wayne Life Member 61. Shew, James Life Member 62. Simmons, Richard Life Member 63. Speck, Wilfred Life Member 64. Stein, Randy End of 2011 65. Sterner, George Life Member 66. Stone, Mark Life Member 67. Swiercz, Pete Life Member 68. Taylor, Kurt Life Member 69. Walker, Kelly Life Member 70. Warrick, Jim End of 2011 71. Weisensee, William Life Member 72. Wigley, Lawrence Life Member 73. Wilkerson, Michael Life Member 74. Young, John End of 2011

Who’s Coming to Reunion 2011??? Attendee(s) Reunion Fee Paid Room Booked

Arnstam, Mark (+1) Paid Booked Bode, Bob “Bingo” Booked Burt, Steve (+1) Cassell, Michael (+1) Booked Clark, Mark (+1) Paid Clark, Robert (+1) Paid Booked Coover, Larry (+1) Booked Cosentino, Dean (+3) Depoortere, Gary (+1) Paid Donahue, Tom (+1) Elmer, Jim (+1) Paid Booked Evans, James Farnon, Tom (+1) Paid Booked Foster, Tim (+1) Gildner, Max (+1) Booked Haldeman, Harry (+1) Booked Heerlyn, Ron (+1) Hvidding, James (+1) Paid Ingraham, Collin (+1) Paid Booked Insalaco, Bob (+1) Jestus, Gene (+1) Booked Keel, Bill (+1) Paid Booked Lesnet, Mike (+1) Paid Booked Manley, Mark (+1) McKeon, Jim Moore, Charles (+1) Booked Munro, Jack Booked Neel, John (+1) Norton, Mark Peterson, George Phelps. Derek Booked Raby, Tom (+1) Repphun, Brian (+1) Booked Riley, John (+1) Salisbury, Tom (+1) Sandberg, Jack (+1) Paid Booked Shew, James (+1) Paid Booked Shoup, Dennis Simmons, Rick Staas, George Tafa, Albert VanNostrand, Carl Walker, Kelly (+1) Warner, Wayne (+1) Wilkerson, Mike Paid Booked Woolfolk, William (+1) Booked Yates, Paul (+1) 2002 Reunion Groton, CT

The 60s Crew The 70s Crew

(L to R): Tom Donahue,Jack "Jake" Munro, Joe Peluso, (L to R): Mike "COB" Haselberger, Al Tafa, Mark "Armpit" Leonard "Gunner" Gunderson, Jay Doyle. Arnstam, Dave Bell,Carl "Schmuck" Shimckus, Bob "Bingo" (Not Pictured: Bob Anderson) Bode, Ed Koskie, John Sweat, Bill Keel, Collin Ingraham, Warren Mackensen, John Fleitz (Not Pictured: Wilfred Speck, Al Drew)

The 80s Crew Ladies of the Tullibee Crew

(L to R): Ron Molina,Jim Spinner, Martin Kippley, Derek (L to R): Sheryl Gunderson, Barbara Peluso, Pat Mackensen, Phelps, Dean Cosentino, Tom Barnhart, Gary Coffman, Nancy Bode, Bidney Shimckus, Sandra Doyle, Bea Dane, Darryl Marsan, Michael Croteau. Standing on chair in Faith Hasselberger, Whitney Donahue, Virginia Sweat, back: Frank Wright. Gretchen Ingraham.

2009 Reunion, Groton/Mystic, CT

The Tullibee Crew

Will you be in the picture in 2011?? Honoring Our Members on Eternal Patrol

There is a port of no return, where ships May lie at anchor for a little space. And then, some starless night, the cable slips, Leaving only an eddy at the mooring place... Gulls, veer no longer, Sailor rest your oar. No tangled wreckage will be washed ashore.

USS Tullibee veterans honored our boat’s veterans serving on Eternal Patrol by placing a wreath at Submarine Memorial in Groton during our reunion last summer. At present, we have listed 54 former Tullibee (SSN 597) sailors on Eternal patrol:

Alford, Zeb Ash, James R. Masson, Rogers Boggess, Layne Forrest Mays, Pete Bradley, Richard McGrath, William J. Bratley, Melton C. Monogue, Kenneth R. Bullough, Bruce Montgomery, David R. Cremin, Raymond J. Morgan, John Franklin DeNicola, Vincent J. Moshier, Clyde Dickson, Ernie Moyer, David Dizdul, Mike Murtha Sr., William P. Dollison, Larry L. Neiswonger, James W. Eck, William S. Nicely, Randolph Lee (Randy) Fitzgerald, Jr., Thomas Wooten Nikola, John H. Forni, Elwood Henry O’Malley, John S. Garrelts, Larry H. Papillard, Georges Marcel Gentry, Robert Parr, Jay E. Grove, David Rankin, James D. Hale, Robert Scott, Harold Truett Hall, Gareld Edward Shelton, Sr., David Harvey, John W. Shimckus, Carl A. Hinkle, David R Steiner, Frederick T. Huffaker, Douglas Dean Stolz, William C. Jamison, Hugh Synhorst, Gerald E. Jeffcoat, A. Bruce Tardiff, Henry Jortberg, Richard E. Templin, Ron Kalata, Emil R. Towery, Robert Keich, Edwin G. Turner, John Kelley, Harvey Turnier, Harry A. Kessell, Edward Vincente, Jose Klinedinst, Paul R. Wallace, John Lee, Charles J. Whitcomb, III, Allison H. Low, Douglas Winge, Don Wolfe, Brent

TULLIBEE TIMES USS TULLIBEE SSN 597 ASSOCIATION

Bill Keel Website address: www.usstullibee.com 606 Avignon Lane Shreveport, LA 71115 [email protected]

OUR CREED: "To perpetuate the memory of our shipmates who gave their lives in the pursuit of their duties while serving their Country. That their dedication, deeds and supreme sacrifice be a constant source of motivation toward greater accomplishments. A pledge of loyalty and patriotism to the United States Government and its Constitution."

USS Tullibee SSN 597 Association Officers

Commander Bill Keel [email protected] (815) 715-9966 Vice Commander Tom Barnhart [email protected] Secretary Dean Cosentino [email protected] Treasurer Bill Keel [email protected] Historian Bill Weisensee [email protected] Reunion Committee Bill Keel [email protected] Chairperson Webmaster Paul Lambert [email protected] Webmaster Tom Barnhart [email protected] Facebook Gerry Hazuka [email protected] Storekeeper Bill Keel [email protected]