Sea Spies!

[tombogan03884]

Maybe not in the same platform but I wouldn't make that assumption... 

November Class...old boats...harassed a few myself back in the day!  First Soviet nuclear submarine class if I recall!

That's correct

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_class_submarine


The Project 627 (Russian – проект 627 "Кит" (Whale), NATO – November) class submarine was the Soviet Union's first class of nuclear-powered submarines. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) used the standard radio communication phonetic alphabet to denote submarine classes. November Class was the designation for this initial series of Soviet nuclear-powered torpedo attack submarines, which were in service from 1958 through 1991.[1][2] All disposed[3] Submarine K-3, the first nuclear submarine built for the Soviet Navy, might be preserved as a memorial.[4]

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Soviet+submarines++November+class++wiki&qpvt=Soviet+submarines++November+class++wiki&FORM=IGRE

[JoeG]

Heard a guy on the radio years ago talking about his experiences and pushing his book titled the Silent Service (I think). he was interesting and i got the book for my dad (RIP) who loved this kind of history. Really good book, writing was OK but the stories more than made up for it. One memorable one was the efforts to get a 5 mile long elevator cable to raise a russian sub wreck with the GloMar Explorer. Hard to keep that purchase a secret.

Thanks for your service.

Joe

[les snyder]

Timothy.... thank you for your service... I had the opportunity to work with a couple of Navy CTs (Thai linguists) while at Clark AFB , Philippines (72-73)....  I worked with the finest linguists and Morse intercept operators of the service cryptologic agencies  (Naval Security Group, Army Security Agency, and USAF Security Service)... who  due to the nature of their job, never received public acknowledgment of the quality of work they did... and many were first term enlisted men and later women...unfortunately, only a catastrophic incident brought the dangers they faced daily to light.... for those interested you might look up "Rivet Joint", and "Combat Apple" for a look at the friendly skies of SEA

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/c130_shootdown/shoot_down_60528.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_EC-121_shootdown_incident

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

[Timothy]

Les, I knew of at least one of these incidents but not because of my military service.  The C-130 shot down over Armenia has a Gerald Medeiros listed in the middle column of the PDF link you provided.

I've known his brother for nearly 25 years and worked with him for over ten!  We spoke of the incident on several occasions.  His brothers (Gerald) remains were mixed up with another crew members remains and buried in Louisiana.  Due to some research, dumb luck and a persuasive family, DNA evidence was able to prove who he was and his remains were interred at Arlington in about 1998 or 1999 with full Honors!  His mother was able to attend and finally get some closure after years of Government ineptness.

Thanks for service as well.  It truly is a small world sometimes...