1965

Woodrow Wilson High School
Class of June 1965

The Fleet Type Submarine (Navpers 16160 & Others)
Web-Master's Note:  Navpers 16160 is the very text I studied in USNR SP/SG School at Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard during 6 weeks in the Summer of 1965 

Here is my reserve training boat, USS Dentuta, SS-385. on which  I studied SS qualification training in her insides in USNR Submarine Reserve Unit 12-31 at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard from June 1965 until I went to SP/SG training school there.

USS Dentuda SS-385
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, CA

(Dentuda pulling into Hunters Point, 1946 - Courtesy Larry Derouin)

Dentuda was decommissioned 11 December 1946 and stationed in the 12th Naval District (HUNTER's POINT NAVAL SHIPYARD) for use as a Naval Reserve Training Boat. Dentuda was stricken and sold for scrap February 12, 1969 to Zidell Explorations of Portland Or. for $55,459.00 .

Note: Assigned to JTF 1 as a test vessel for Operation "Crossroads," Dentuda returned to Pearl Harbor 14 February 1946, and on 22 May sailed for Bikini Atoll. She underwent both atomic weapons tests with her crew safely away from their submarine, and returned to Pearl Harbor 6 September. On 7 October she got underway for Mare Island Naval Shipyard, arriving 14 October. She was decommissioned 11 December 1946 and stationed in the 12th Naval District for the training of members of the Naval Reserve.

1966

After graduating from USN Submarine Reserve SP/SG Submarine School at Hunter's Point, San Francisco Naval Shipyard in the Summer of 1965. I was assigned to attend the Basic Electricity/Electronics Prep (BEEP) School (1600 to 0100 hrs, Monday through Friday) for 6 weeks and Torpedoman Mate's "A" (TMA) School for 8 weeks in San Diego in 1966 as a SN(SG) - Seaman, Submarine School Graduate.

Before going to those schools, I got a copy of the manual, typed in the text with a typewriter and hand drew some of the drawings to highlight them for better study. Here are some of them below on the hydraulic and pneumatic systems.

Submarine Torpedo Tubes Pneumatic and Hydraulic Operational Sequences

After BEEP School and TMA School completion, my designation was TMSN(SG), Torpedoman's Mate striker, Seaman, Submarine School Graduate. While serving on USS Diodon (SS-349), I qualified on submarines as TMSN(SS) and passed my 3rd class Service Wide Exam and became TM3(SS). While aboard Diodon, I later took the Service Wide Exam and passed the exam for TM2(SS), but picked up the advancement in rank after I was separated from active duty and returned to Submarine Reserve Division 12-31.

1967
USS Diodon (SS-349) Submarine History Page for 1967 - I came aboard her and Qualified in Submarines during a WEST PAC deployment that year
USS Diodon (SS-349) Home Port with Frame Pages - for Diodon Shipmates, Photos, History

Here is your Web-Master Qualified in Submarines as a TMSN(SS) on USS Diodon (SS-349) in September 1967 in Hong Kong, BCC.  That is an Australian frigate's bow seen in the background.