SPOOK RIDER: SUBMARINE DIRECT SUPPORT - Softcover

Gibson, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798645691332

Verlag: Independently published, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

For submariners and cryptologists: an enlisted sailor's story. Cryptologist Seaman Calvin Thompson is the SPOOK RIDER, an ELINT-oriented Cryptologist on his first Cold War deployment aboard the USS Barracuda, a fast attack submarine with 100+ high-performance crewmen. While disconnected from the real world for two months aboard 'Cuda, one of the US Navy’s least habitable ships, he learns that the mission requires long periods of dull reconnaissance occasionally rewarded with spikes in wartime-simulated activity against the Soviet Russian navy. The submarine of the era is a “men-only” domain where Cal finds submariners alternately bored, restless, crass, and jaded. The crew, shoehorned into a few thousand square feet of living and operational spaces, find high humor in the misfortunes of anyone aboard. Yet, they are the ultimate professionals around the clock, getting the job done despite the extreme living conditions. Though realistic, the Barracuda’s operations depicted in SPOOK RIDER never happened. Any similarity to recorded or recalled events is purely coincidence, or the names have been changed to protect the guilty. This story is deemed UNCLASSIFIED by the National Security Agency and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798645691332
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 360
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