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Friday the 13th Underway
By Bull Nav
Well, it's Friday the 13th, and 11 years ago to the day, we got underway on the mighty USS SCRANTON (SSN756) for a scheduled North Atlantic deployment. This was pretty standard, and it was supposed to last about 4 1/2 months. My wife was 4 months pregnant at the time, so I knew I was most likely going to miss the birth, but it looked like I would be home within days of the birth.
Turns out, we got extended. My son was two months old by the time I got home.
We did get three port calls: Faslane, Scotland; Haakonsvern, Norway; and Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Spent something like 21 days in port out of 178 deployed.
Ahhhh, for the good old days of "Peace."
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Norway was a nice place. We were at the Naval Base at Haakonsvern, which is very close to Bergen. Everyone there speaks English and they all sound like Americans. In fact, I remember watching Patton on TV there and it was not subtitled or dubbed. You can get elk, caribou, whale, and a variety of other meats at the restaurants.
I did not have the best time, however, as I was somewhat distracted. By the time we pulled in, my son was 10 days old. I got to talk to my wife on the phone, but we were only in port for 5 days, so there was not enough time for me to fly back. Sucked.
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What was liberty in Norway like?