Commander's Corner

Published Quarterly by the USS Tullibee SSN 597 Association Bill Keel Association Commander, 815-715-9966, bkeel597@gmail.com Sixteenth Edition, 24 January 2017 Reunion Details: Commander’s Corner A personalized Web site for USS Host Hotel: Sheraton Tullibee Reunion occurring Hello Shipmates! Portsmouth Harborside Hotel. (June 15, 2017 - June 17, 2017) has been created for you. We have a block of rooms at Happy New Year! I hope this hotel. It is in a great Guests can access the site to learn everyone is starting this year location and I hope many will more about the event and to book, off in great fashion! The consider staying here. At this modify, or cancel a reservation from reunion is not too far away now November 4, 2016 to June 18, 2017. time, we have a block of 15 and I am excited about it! As rooms for Thursday, 15 June Below you will find the appropriate I mentioned in the previous 2017, and 40 rooms for Friday link(s) for your participants to access letter, there are a lot of guys the site: and Saturday nights, 16 and in the area that are working 17 June 2017. If we fill extremely hard to make this these rooms, we can request USS Tullibee Reunion: copy and the best one yet! The interest additional rooms. Why only paste the following link into a web level early on was one of the browser: 40? Because there are other highest we have had this far options in the area and any https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/e for all of our reunions. The rooms we do not secure have to vents/start.action?id=1611040226&k actual commitment rate is ey=137DAA23 be paid for. So, better to fairly slow right now. I know request more rooms as we go! that we just had Christmas and Please use the following link to New Years and probably a lot make a reservation at the of travel, and commitments will Sheraton. It is important that pick up soon. Remember, if you register this way so that you can, please stay at the the rooms are credited to our host hotel. We have secured a block. The following is a block of rooms. If we go over, message and reservation link that’s okay; if we don’t fill it, from the Sheraton: we pay. --Bill Let’s Spread the Word! Portsmouth, NH Every time we have a reunion, we 15-18 June 2017 hear from shipmates after the fact who were upset they did not The reunion fee this year is know about the reunion and $75 per person. This includes wished they could have attended. the reunion banquet, function Sheraton Portsmouth Almost all of us have shipmates space at the Sheraton, in our contact lists. Why not challenge coins, and a 3-hour Harborside Hotel forward a copy of this Isle of Shoal cruise on the (Host Hotel). newsletter to every Tullibee M/V Thomas Laighton (private $219 per night plus $19 per night shipmate you know? If they are charter just for us!). Box parking. already on the mailing list, they’ll lunches are available for sale (Please see the link on page one of appreciate you for making sure on the Thomas Laighton, as are newsletter for all pricing they have received it! If they wine, beer and soft drinks. information) are not on the mailing list, it will give them the opportunity to be There are other hotels in the Below is a preliminary itinerary included. Even if you cannot, or Portsmouth area; however, it is the of things that we are planning. choose not to attend the reunion, hope of the reunion committee that Not everyone will choose to let’s give our shipmates the attendees opt to stay at the take part in all these Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside chance to get together with old activities, but there will be Hotel. This will be the center of crew members, get reacquainted many things from which to activity and it will be a great place with old friends, and swap a few choose! And, of course, small to meet shipmates and from which stories! to depart for activities. individual gatherings are encouraged! Isle of Shoals Steamship Company Preliminary Itinerary: M/V Thomas Laighton 15 June 2017 (Thursday) Meet and Greet TBD 16 June 2017 (Friday) Please make checks for the Tour of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Planned activities in groups or 2017 Reunion fees of $75 per individually: deep sea fishing, golf, person to USS Tullibee SSN Historic Portsmouth walking tour, and 597 Association and mail them other activities. Portsmouth Underbelly Tour to the following address: Saturday, 17 June 2017 Bill Keel Isle of Shoals Cruise (M/V Thomas Laighton) followed by a Memorial USS Tullibee SSN 597 Assoc. Service and sub tour at Albacore Park. 333 Songbird Road Reunion Banquet at Sheraton Collierville, TN 38017 Portsmouth Harborside Hotel. Sunday, 18 June 2017 If you need more information, Breakfast please email me at Church Services Prearranged get togethers bkeel597@gmail.com Departure USS TULLIBEE LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP We have the following DUES: items available: SSN 597 The rates are as follows -Golf shirts, with gold or silver ASSOCIATION and are based upon the Dolphins member's age at time of Are you a member of the payment of lifetime dues: -Ball caps, with gold or silver Dolphins USS Tullibee SSN 597 Age 65 and Over: Association? Being a $50.00; -Tullibee coffee mugs member is not essential in Age 60-64: $75.00; order to get newsletters, Age 50-59: $100.00; -Tullibee T-shirts attend reunions, or enjoy Age 49 and under: -Zippo lighters with the boat’s the camaraderie of $150.00. crest shipmates, but it does on one side and the T2 help to maintain funds to -------- Pride Runs Deep ------- emblem ensure reunions and on the other Ship’s Store perpetuate the memory of -Tullibee patches, with the the SSN 597 and those Tullibee items are available boat’s associated with her. If in our ship’s store. I get a Crest you are not a member, lot of emails from people claiming to be Tullibee and please consider joining. -T2 patches they sell “Tullibee” items. Remember, they usually are not associated with the USS Tullibee SSN 597 and You can see these items their sales go to their private enterprises. That’s and prices on the webpage good, and private at www.usstullibee.com. If enterprises make America you are getting this run. But when you buy newsletter by snail mail, from the Tullibee drop me a note or give me a Association, you are supporting the mission of call and I’ll send you a the Association, and we picture of the items that need your support! Memberships are available. Membership Dues for the USS Tullibee SSN 597 Association are as follows: YEARLY DUES: $10 per year and renewable December 31 of each year. Today In Undersea economic growth in our state. We are course through the Navy. Rickover’s committed to working with the detractors were as vociferous Warfare History: incoming Administration to maximize as his boosters, but there was no investments in our submarine force denying that he got things 1919 | USS R-2 (SS 79) commissioned within the constraints of our national done. with LCDR. Charles Maynard budget and our overall security He was not someone overly “Savvy” Cooke, Jr., in command. needs.” concerned with putting After acceptance trials in Cape Cod underlings at ease. He famously sawed Bay, R-2 was assigned to Submarine a few inches off the Division 9 of the Atlantic Fleet and front legs of the wooden chair that job based at New London, Conn. seekers sat in. As they How Do You Tell Adm. struggled to keep from slipping to the 1942 | USS Swordfish (SS 193) Rickover That You floor, he would badger torpedoed and sank the cargo ship them with questions. Myoken Maru off Kema, Celebes, Messed Up His New Rickover would be trading his office Islands. Office? in Main Navy, as the temporary (http://www.subforce.navy.mil/) John Kelly, Washington Post, January 22 building was called, for one in Crystal City. Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, the father John said that as they were of the nuclear preparing for the move, he heard U.S. Undersea Navy, was demanding and exacting. from Rickover’s staff that the But demanding and exacting is admiral’s new office was not Warfare News probably what you want when you’re secure. stuffing a nuclear reactor inside a long “I went over and looked at his Blumenthal & Murphy metal tube, then sending it and office space and saw that it was on an more than a hundred men under the upper floor of the building which was Welcome Navy’s Arctic ice cap. set back from the floor below,” John Commitment to But apparently there was another wrote. “You could walk on Submarine Force in side to Rickover, the roof right up to his office too, one that John Galuardi of window.” New Force Structure Potomac, Md., recently shared Who knew what military secrets Assessment with me. might be visible through the window? Staff, SAT Press Releases, January 23 On the past two Sundays, Answer John asked his staff to come up with a Man has been writing about “tempos,” plan. Their recommendation: HARTFORD, Conn. – U.S. Senators those monstrosities built during the Construct a brick wall. It would ruin Richard Blumenthal two World Wars that blighted the Mall the view out of the window, but it (D-CT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) and other areas in our would prevent people from looking in.

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