September 2019 Volume 20, Issue 9

Lest We Forget — Inside This Issue:

“The USSVI Submariner’s Creed” Meeting minutes 2

To perpetuate the memory of our shipmates who Lost Boats 3 gave their lives in the pursuit of their duties while Undersea Warfare Hist 3 serving their country. That their dedication, deeds, 688 class Life Extension 4 and supreme sacrifice be a constant source of Builders Face Pressures 5 motivation toward greater accomplishments. Pledge loyalty and patriotism to the United States of Contact information 9 America and its Constitution. Application form 10

News Brief 1. Next Meeting: At 1100, third Saturday of each month at the Knollwood Sportsman’s Club. Mark your calendars for these upcoming dates: a. SEPTEMBER 21 b. OCTOBER 19 c. NOVEMBER 16 2. Duty Cook Roster: a. SEPTEMBER – TED ROTZOLL b. OCTOBER – MAURICE YOUNG c. NOVEMBER – SEE YOUR NAME HERE! 3. September Birthdays: Ted Rotzoll 8th; Charles Daniels 17th; and Bob Krautstrunk 18th. Happy Birthday, Shipmates! 4. Support the Cobia - Crash Dive is committed to keeping the Cobia healthy. You can help too, even from afar. Join the WI Maritime Museum; www.wisconsinmaritime.org. 5. Clay Hill is collecting pictures from the dedication of the Riverwalk Memorial. Kindly consider sharing copies of your photos with Clay by sending them to him at [email protected]. Crash Dive Meeting Minutes f. Webmaster – If you have August 17, 2019 something to post on the Website, send it to Frank 1. Attendees: Voznak. Waiting for some a. Glenn Barts, Sr. pictures of the memorial b. Herman Mueller dedication to post. c. Ted Rotzoll g. Storekeeper – Nothing new. d. Larry Warnke h. Procedures – No news. e. Dick Anderson i. Eagle Scout – ACTION: Clay f. Frank Voznak, Jr. will ask Phil Owens about g. Jan Hill managing this process, h. Clay Hill especially to prevent overlap i. Chris Gaines among bases. Awaiting reply 2. Meeting was called to order by from Phil. Clay Hill at 1112 followed the j. Memorial – Anyone who has Pledge of Allegiance and a round pictures of the dedication is of introductions. asked to share copies with Clay 3. Secretary’s Report was given by Hill. Chris Gaines. 6. Old (Unfinished) Business a. None. 4. Treasurer’s Report given by Glenn 7. New Business Barts, Sr. Savings $1,173.69; a. Greg Miller moved to spend Checking $4966.06; Sub $500 on Operation Santa at the Memorial Checking $30,341.21. Wisconsin Maritime Museum. Savings $5.00 and held by Herman Mueller seconded. national $0.00. Vote was unanimous. 5. Committee Reports b. Clay to schedule a staff a. Newsletter – Will be posted on meeting: Webpage. i. to include a walk-through of b. Membership – Send dues to Illinois Beach State Park. Tom. Contact info on Page 9. ii. Second order for coins and c. Charitable Service – No report. boxes; how many of each? d. Community Outreach – No c. Frank Voznak moved to donate report. ACTION: Ted Rotzoll $200 to the Thresher asks how to make a check Dedication Fund; seconded by payable for the Cobia Dick Anderson. Vote was drydocking. unanimous. Chris Gaines to e. Hospitality – Corn Roast send message to all members August 24. All 240 tickets have for individual response. been sold. Expect cleanup in 8. Good of the Order item: Fall. a. Duty Cook i. September – Ted Rotzoll. Page 2 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL

ii. October – Maurice Young. Groton, Conn. The Ohio-class ballistic- iii. November – SEE YOUR NAME missile submarine is the fourth named after the Silver State. HERE!  August 19, 1943 | USS Finback (SS b. 786 Club – 230) sinks the Japanese auxiliary i. Change of Command moved submarine chaser (No.109) off the to October 4, 2019. eastern Celebes. ii. Annual visit expected in  August 20, 1944 | USS Gunnel (SS December or January. 253) attacked a Japanese transport in the South China Sea. c. Next meeting is September 21,  August 21, 1883 | The installation of 2019. the first electric lighting on board a 9. Adjourn. Glenn Barts moved to U.S. Navy ship is completed onboard adjourn; Larry Warnke seconded. USS Trenton. Meeting adjourned at 1254.  August 22, 1944 | USS Haddo (SS 255) and USS Harder (SS 257) encounter 3 Japanese escort vessels. Lost Boats Haddo sinks Sado 35 miles west of Manila; Harder sinks Matsuwa and USS S-5 (SS-110) 09/1/20 Hiburi about 50 miles west-southwest of Manila. USS Grayling (SS-209) 09/09/43  August 23, 1944 | USS Tang (SS USS S-51 (SS-162) 09/25/25 306) attacks a Japanese convoy off USS Cisco (SS-290) 09/28/43 Honshu, sinking cargo ship, Tsukushi Maru off Hamamatsu. Undersea Warfare History  August 26, 1949 | USS Tusk (SS 426) fought to save USS Cochino (SS 345) for 14 hours. Through acts of  August 12, 1945 | USS Torsk (SS skillful seamanship and high courage, 423) made a submerged periscope and the loss of seven men, Tusk attack which sank a small coastal Sailors rescued all crew aboard freighter off Dogo Island. Cochino.  August 13, 1777 | A spar torpedo  August 27, 1943 | USS Pollack (SS made by David Bushnell is used 180) sank the 3520 ton passenger- unsuccessfully against HMS Cerberus. cargo ship Taifuku Maru of the coast Bushnell and his brother, Ezra, also of Kyushu. designed the first submersible vessel:  August 28, 1944 | USS Jack (SS Turtle. 259) attacked a convoy and sank a August 14, 1945 The Japanese  | small minesweeper. Raked with accept the terms of the Potsdam gunfire, Jack deftly evaded her Declaration and agree to surrender, attacker and sank the Japanese ship ending World War II. This day is also Mexico Maru. known as V-J Day.  August 29, 1893 | USS Constellation  August 15, 1953 Adm. Arthur W. | returned under sail for the last time Radford becomes the first naval officer before being placed out of to be appointed as the Chairman, commission. Joints Chief of Staff, serving two-terms  September 3, 1943 | USS Pollack until Aug. 15, 1957. (SS 180) sank the 3,421 ton cargo  August 16, 1986 | USS Nevada ship Tagonoura Maru. (SSBN 733) is commissioned at Page 3 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL

 September 4, 1941 | USS Greer (DD Angeles-class submarines built. 145) is attacked by the German  September 16, 1944 | USS Picuda submarine U-652. Greer is (SS 382) probed deeper into the undamaged in the attack, and interior of Luzon Strait for a bold damages U-652 with depth charges. daylight attack on an 8 ship convoy The attack led President Roosevelt to guarded by 3 destroyers and air cover. issue shoot-on-sight order, directing Picuda sank the 5975-ton Tokushima Navy ships to attack any ship Maru and scored hits on 2 other threatening U.S. shipping or foreign freighters. shipping under escort.  September 17, 1943 | USS Trigger  September 5, 1776 | The Continental (SS 237) fired 4 torpedoes striking the Navy adopts first uniforms for naval 6435 ton cargo ship Yowa Maru.. officers.  September 18, 1793 | George  September 6, 1997 | USS Louisiana Washington lays the cornerstone to (SSBN 743) is commissioned. The the United States Capitol building, the boat was the last of the Navy’s 18 home of the legislative branch of Ohio-class nuclear-powered fleet American government. The building ballistic missile submarines. would take nearly a century to  September 7, 1776 | American craft complete. Turtle attacks HMS Eagle in first naval  September 19, 1944 | USS Bang attack ever made in a submersible (SS 385) made radar contact with an vehicle. enemy convoy, submerged and fired  September 9, 1943 | USS Trout (SS on 2 of the ships. The tanker Tosei 202) sank the Japanese submarine I- Maru No. 2 sank, while the other 182. vessel suffered substantial damage.  September 10, 1944 | USS Sunfish  September 20, 1942 | USS Wahoo (SS 281) intercepted a convoy coming (SS 238) sank a 6,400 ton freighter out of the Tsushima Strait. She sank south of Namonuito Atoll. the Chihaya Maru and damaged several other targets. US Navy ponders  September 11, 2001 | American Airlines flight 77 is hijacked by terrorist prolonging Los Angeles and hits the Pentagon, causing 184 fatalities. American Airlines flight 11 subs and United Airlines flight 175 hit the Marc Selinger, Shephard Media, August 10 Twin Towers at the World Trade Center, New York City. United Airlines The US Navy is studying whether to flight 93 goes down in Shanksville, extend the service life of some of its Pennsylvania after passengers ageing Los Angeles-class nuclear- engaged the hijackers. powered attack submarines (SSNs) by 12  September 12, 1944 | USS years to ease a projected shortfall in its Pampanito (SS 383) sank the overall SSN fleet. transport Kachidaki Maru and the tanker Zuiho Maru while damaging a The navy, which has already stretched the third ship. life of Los Angeles-class submarines from 30 years to 33 years, is now looking at  September 13, 1996 | USS Cheyenne (SSN 773) is commissioned whether up to seven of those boats could at Naval Station Norfolk. Cheyenne be made to last a total of 45 years, according to Naval Sea Systems was the 62nd and last of the Los Command (NAVSEA). Page 4 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL

A class-wide study is due to be finished in period of weakened conventional 2020. In addition, each vessel will be deterrence against potential adversaries evaluated individually based on inspection such as China,’ CRS wrote in a June data. report.

‘The purpose of the studies is to verify The navy began fielding Los Angeles- viability and identify what additional, class boats in 1976 and is buying about previously unplanned maintenance may two Virginia-class submarines a year to be necessary to support extended service replace them. General Dynamics’ Electric life,’ NAVSEA stated. Boat division and Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding The seven vessels being considered are division built the Los Angeles class and among the newest and most capable in are constructing the Virginia class. what is also known as the SSN-688 class. The navy bought 62 Los Angeles class from FY1970 to FY1990, 31 of which had As CNO Richardson been retired as of the end of FY2018, departs, U.S. submarine according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS). builders face pressures

An extension to 45 years would require on all fronts David B. Larter, Defense News, August 22 refueling the submarines’ nuclear reactors at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine. WASHINGTON – Adm. John NAVSEA has received FY2019 funding to plan the first potential refueling but has Richardson, who was plucked from not yet determined how much the Naval Reactors to lead the service refuelings would cost or when they would as it geared up for its number one occur. shipbuilding priority the replacement for the Ohio-class ballistic missile ‘As the Navy has not yet completed the submarines, is leaving his post with studies and designated the final number the cracks beginning to show in the of refuelings, the cost and schedule [are] U.S. submarine industrial base. still under review,’ NAVSEA said.

While the navy’s 2016 Force Structure At the height of the Cold War, Assessment calls for a fleet of 66 attack General Dynamics Electric Boat and submarines, the navy had only 51 SSNs Newport News were producing, on at the end of FY2018, including 31 Los average, 4.2 submarines per year Angeles class, according to CRS. The between the Ohio-class boomers SSN fleet is expected to shrink to 42 and the Los Angeles-class attack vessels in the late 2020s before boats. And those submarines were rebounding and reaching 66 in FY2048. built from parts from 17,000 suppliers,

according to 2017 testimony from ‘Some observers are concerned that this projected valley - a consequence of former General Dynamics executive having procured a relatively small number John Casey. of SSNs during the 1990s, in the early years of the post-Cold War era - could Between 1997 and 2016, production lead to a period of heightened operational of submarines dropped by 80 strain for the SSN force, and perhaps a percent, and there were several Page 5 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL years where the Navy purchased no builders and suppliers, and said new subs at all. The result was a workforce turnover in the yards has more than 80 percent drop in the undoubtedly played a role in the number of suppliers in what’s known delays creeping into schedules. as the submarine industrial base, according to Casey’s testimony, and “We’re asking a lot of the submarine the skilled workforce saw a similar industrial base right now to continue contraction. with Virginia, two-to-three per year including that payload module, and Now, as the shipyards struggle to deliver Columbia, Richardson said. adjust to two Virginia-class “That’s an industrial base that has a submarines per year, the Navy is lot on their plate right now. And their preparing to and start integrating an workforce is going through a 84-foot section into new hulls called transformation. the Virginia Payload Module, that will “The people who built and triple the current loadout of delivered the Virginia program, the Tomahawk missiles to 40 per ship. The Los Angeles program and Seawolf – service is also eyeing expanding to those folks are retiring. We used to three Virginias in certain years. And, have this two-hump camel in terms above all, in 2021 the Navy plans to of the demographics of the shipyard: buy its first Columbia-class You had the Cold Warriors and you submarine, a boat more than had the post-9/11 folks. And that double the size of a Virginia-class. Cold War hump is gone. And I think that although it’s going through The mounting pressure on both a some friction right now, it’s really diminished supplier base and a inculcating, indoctrinating and green workforce being trained and educating a brand-new workforce.” expanded in real-time as the Navy increases the workload has caused The problems, such as the sub-par delays to creep into the Virginia- welding on the missile tubes from class program, once renowned for sub-contractor BWXT, is one the delivering boats early and under Navy thinks it can get after with budget. And welding problems on better oversight of the contractors as new missile tubes have already they get over the learning curve, eaten into the schedule buffer the Richardson said. Navy built in for Columbia, which the Navy needs on patrol in 2031 to “You can’t take a lot of the skillsets avoid dropping below the 10 subs it for granted.,” he said. “We’ve had says it needs to maintain a constant some welding issues. We’ve got to strategic deterrent. be on that. [It’s] a lot closer oversight as we educate this new team. It’s In a Monday interview with Defense not just the welders and other skills its News, outgoing Chief of Naval ‘Well, who were the managers of Operations acknowledged the that. What should they be looking tremendous pressure facing sub out for?’” Page 6 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL

On the whole, however, Richardson enough boats to execute its said he’s optimistic that the continuous strategic deterrent workforce issues will be resolved as regime. the new employees gain experience. And the delays already eaten into the wiggle-room the Navy has to “As I zoom out, it’s a super exciting work with, Richardson said. time for the nation because a lot of people are coming into this “I think that the Columbia program is workforce and they’re getting terrific on track but there is so little margin in jobs: they’re getting educated to do that program” he said. “And I know, really high end work both for just because I’ve done this enough, themselves and for the country,” that you’ve got to build that margin Richardson said. “But there is a in. And we did: we built that margin learning curve associated with that. in, but a lot of it has been eaten up But if you think about it, I’d rather be by one unexpected thing or doing that learning now than later.” another. So, we’re still on track, but a lot the margin is gone. ‘There is Going to Be Something’ Getting the Columbia on a better The workforce issues are threatening path means the Navy, Electric Boat, to mar the Columbia program and their partner shipbuilding before it really gets off the starting Huntington Ingalls Newport News, blocks next year. need to deliver pieces of the program faster. The program, that the Navy has said for most of this decade is their “We’ve got to build that margin number-one shipbuilding priority, is back, and we’ve got a plan – we’ve likely to see its $115 billion price tag set some pretty aggressive goals for fall short of what’s required, that,” he said. “We’re going to build according to a Government the lead ship of that class in the Accountability Office report in April, same time we built the lead ship of because the Navy has inadequately Virginia. And it’s two-and-a-half accounted for the labor hours times the size. But we’ve learned a necessary to complete the boat. lot about shipbuilding, so the design will be a lot more complete than And if the boats fall behind because Virginia was at the start. There is a of parts shortages, which top Navy tremendous amount of oversight officials have said they are starting where we think the risks are, the to feel acutely from its diminished known knowns. supplier base, or from a green workforce taking more time than a “But I will tell you I just know there is more experienced workforce to going to be something in testing, it’s complete the same work, the a super complex system. So, we just ultimate risk is the country not having need to be driving hard to build Page 7 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL margin. We said in the [Design for starting in 1981 and ending with Maintaining Maritime Superiority 2.0]: Louisiana in 1997, has carried the Navy's Hey, deliver it as fast as you can. top priority of "strategic deterrence" with Whatever IOC we set for ourselves, its ability to respond with nuclear firepower. It's often called the "survivable let’s not take any comfort in that. leg" of the nuclear triad that includes Let’s just keep retiring risk as fast as bombers and land-based missiles. But the we can: Get that thing out to sea as 14 vessels that make up the class must fast as we can. Because if we get stay afloat through the arrival of the next into that risk retirement mindset, iteration of strategic deterrence, the that’s what will happen.” Columbia class, which is being developed. The first submarine is planned to be in USS Louisiana, last of the service by 2031. The Columbia class is to include 12 ballistic missile boats, all arriving by 2042. The Navy's budget for 2020 includes $2.3 billion on submarine fleet, to the way to about $313 billion for the begin refueling at Puget entire class, estimates the United States Naval Institute. Sound Naval Shipyard The ballistic-missile subs have the Josh Farley, Kitsap Sun, August 25 capacity of up to 24 Trident ballistic missiles that the Department of Defense BREMERTON — The USS Louisiana, built says are equipped with "multiple, last in its class of ballistic-missile independently targeted warheads." A Navy submarines, is set for a lengthy overhaul inspector general's report says that for on the Puget Sound waterfront that will such overhauls, the submarine's nuclear extend its life by two decades. weapons are deposited and secured at The Bangor-based Louisiana is also Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor. the last of 18 Ohio-class subs to start a Eight of the country's "boomers" refueling of its nuclear power reactor, a are homeported at Naval Base Kitsap- process that's likely to take around three Bangor. The other six call Kings Bay, years at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Georgia, home. The other four boats of the Louisiana arrived in Bremerton Ohio class were converted in the 2000s earlier this month, a Navy spokesman away from nuclear to conventional or confirmed. Other work on the boat, guided cruise missile capacity. outside of the refueling, has not been disclosed. But it took about 700,000 workdays of maintenance at a cost of Navy's Knifefish Mine- $371 million for the USS Maine, the most recent Ohio-class submarine to complete Hunting Drone Sub the same job. Approved for Production The Ohio-class ballistic missile Matthew Cox, Military Times, August 29 submarine USS Louisiana transits the Hood Canal following a strategic deterrent The Navy recently approved low-rate patrol in 2018. The boat recently pulled in initial production (LRIP) for a special, to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, where underwater drone system designed to it will be refueled and complete a nearly conduct counter-mine operations for three-year overhaul. the service's littoral combat ship. The Ohio class, commissioned Program Executive Officer for Page 8 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL

Unmanned and Small Combatants The Navy hopes to approve a recently granted Milestone C approval full-rate production decision for the to the Knifefish Surface Mine system in fiscal 2021 after additional Countermeasure Unmanned Undersea testing of LRIP systems, according to Vehicle Program, according to a news the release. The service plans to buy 30 release from Naval Sea Systems Knifefish systems in all -- 24 in support Command. of LCS mine countermeasure mission The Navy is expected to award an packages and an additional six systems LRIP contract to Knifefish prime for deployment from other vessels. contractor General Dynamics Mission The Navy conducted formal Systems, the release states. developmental testing and operational The Knifefish system is designed assessment from January through May to deploy from an LCS as well as from 2019 in multiple locations off the coast other offshore vessels to detect and of Massachusetts and Florida, classify "buried, bottom and volume according to the release. The Knifefish mines" in highly cluttered tests involved operational mine-hunting environments, according to the release. missions against a simulated target Knifefish consists of two field. unmanned undersea vehicles, along The Knifefish was developed with support systems and equipment. It from technology designed for General uses cutting-edge low-frequency Dynamics' Bluefin Robotics Bluefin-21 broadband sonar and automated target deep-water Autonomous Undersea recognition software technology to act Vehicle, a system that was involved in as an off-board sensor while the host the unsuccessful search for the missing ship stays outside the minefield Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. boundaries, the release states. Crash Dive Base Contact Information

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APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP Regular  Life  Associate  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. Pledge loyalty and patriotism to the United States of America & its Constitution.”

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