They came on board and stayed for about 2 days to investigate. He was loved by everybody for his caring heart and awesome attitude. His true love GF was back on the mainland & the separation was getting to him. But I found myself dealing with immature guys. Perhaps those who are saying it was suicide actually read their message traffic, and know what they are talking about...Do you really think his family read Idaho's First and Foremost Submarine Blog, anyway? The T-hull in most every space is like a bloated whale. a. Disqualified Category. Members removed from submarine duty in the disqualified category are not normally eligible for return to submarine duty at any future date. Jackson. It is your job to help him qualify, albeit he should do most of the work. I'm pretty skeptical of the "suicide awareness" training. You mean the Lord couldn't save him either? Keep in mind that it is likely that family and friends of the deceased may find their way here. anon@0705,Has it occurred to you yet that the misspelling was a little too obvious, given the rest of the post, and that the poster was perhaps making a (slightly) subtle point about the state of publik education? I guess you didn't get enough hugs as a kid and you didn't develop that part of you that has empathy for your shipmates. ), ♪♫ "Boys In The Back Ordered Bench Spares" ♫♪, Submarine Birthday And Wearing Your Dolphins To Work. Yeah, we got fucked with, but we were accepted. You really do not know that, do you?On your point re: "Somewhere there's an admiral sweating very large bullets." She carries Trident ballistic missiles. For that matter, the small minority of folks who consider folks with depression to be "weak" - its a disease, not a PRT failure. Those who should be cursed are those who saw potential warning signs but maintained silence. Why should we insist on their removal when a shipmate suffers from a mental health malady? He was inconsolable. The sub has successfully launched Trident missiles for testing six times, once in 1995, in 2004, in 2008, in 2011[5] in 2018[6], and in 2019. A sailor who died Saturday after he was injured aboard the ballistic-missile submarine Nebraska had become “entangled and pinned” in the rudder ram during a cleaning evolution, according to the Naval Safety Center’s Web site. Gentile is survived by his mother Julie, father Jay and stepmother Michelle Gentile, four brothers and two sisters. Browse previous blog posts by month and year of entry. What an NCIS agent did tell me is that when someone wishes to commit suicide (die) there is nothing that can be done; they don’t leave clues or no one has any idea. Whatever the cause, it's over now. I know where the area where that accident occurred and it is so large an access that one could get the mindset that it must be safe. Legacy.com is the leading provider of online obituaries for the newspaper industry. May he rest in peace, and may God lift his loved ones, and help them carry this heavy load. I read his writings and holy shi#, This dude had NO business being on a submarine. Connecting this to dolphins in anyway seems odd. He was on his first deployment.I seriously doubt he was a nuke unless he dropped from the program. How come so many questionable deaths? Do you know that's what happened? Regrading the second incident aboard Nebraska, with the accidental death of the A-ganger in the rudder gear; can someone knowledgeable of the class help me out with something? And what about being fixers? The more they feel accepted, the more they will want to achieve more to earn the respect of their peers, and comradarie is really the only true thing we have to keep us going through deployments, long shipyard periods, etc. Machinist's Mate 3rd Class (SS) Michael A. Dave Benham, a spokesman for Submarine Force Pacific, said Monday evening. Have they accomplished anything besides mysteriously appearing and then some squid disappears immediately after? I regret that some of Will's family and friends (including myself) discovered this blog and read the remarks made by people who did not even know Will. I chalk the latter up to ignorance as much as anything else, and the fact that, IMO, that person should NEVER have been allowed on watch with a weapon under the circumstances the night he committed suicide. May have had NOTHING AT ALL to do with submarine life...who knows? I hope that you can take comfort in realizing that none of the offensive comments on this page came from anyone who knew Will (as far as I can tell) and that none of them should be interpreted to comment on him personally.I grieve for your loss and for the loss of a submariner. "That includes standing a watch or two occasionally as well. They worked side by side, on and off the boat. Sailors with depression are just as vulnerable too life-threatening events as Sailors with diabetes, maybe more so. She transited more than 16,800 miles, crossing the Atlantic Ocean, and navigating the Mediterranean Sea to her mid-patrol destination of the Greek island of Crete. The Big Red is my husband's old boat and he was there from 2006 to 2008 or there abouts. Sailor dies aboard USS Nebraska Seattlepi.com ^ Posted on 09/23/2008 1:50:03 PM PDT by esryle. In the military hard science fiction Looking Glass series by John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor, Nebraska is converted into the first human interstellar spaceship and renamed Vorpal Blade. We survive and move on when things happen, then we dissect the event to see how we could have done better. It is people with the mightier than thou attitude like yourself that cause problems within the submarine community. I'm all for compassion, but the dolphins mean, among other things, that you can hack it. tested & confirmed so far. The system tends to weed out the weak. Does anyone on this blog actually know Mark/MM1(SS)? Shame, shame, DH, C.O.B. My son is a MM fireman too. The death record is the most recent record, so it will more likely be available to you. If you think we are harsh you should see what Squadron or NR does to a nuke when we screw up. We will truely miss you and your great personality Mack. As of November 2013, the sub had completed 62 deterrent patrols during its 20 years of service. And grant eternal life on high.”, You don’t tag out the rudder. And this must be aired out! He died while being airlifted in a medevac helicopter. There's a host of wild theories out there right about now, so I won't go into it. By mike_barber on September 24, 2008 at 8:46 AM. How much insight do you need to see that a fellow shipmate is having a problem? What we need to stop doing now is jumping to conclusions. It is survival of the fittest on submarines. It is recommended that you start again from the homepage. All Hands Magazine highlights the Navy's culture and heritage, while striving to be the number one source of information for Sailors about their Navy today. Someone posted Mack was selfish for what he did. This event is one of the reasons that I retired; I blamed myself because I was part of the Command. The crew was brought into port to address the needs of the crew because of this tragedy” and to help in the investigations into the incident, Benham said. He attended Kearney High School in Kearney, Nebraska.. His family said he planned to reenlinst next year. The only psych eval I remember was sitting at a card table with some guy (I don't know what his qualifications were; not even sure if he was an officer) in boot camp. It's nothing like a broken bone or physical ailment. The details of how he was found don't really need to be aired here. goddamit. I don't mean to make light of dolphins, but at the same time, I know a lot of lazy barely good for anything sailors that received dolphins. Might heart does out to his shipmates, family and friends. You'll see all the posts for that time period. Lt. Cmdr. Lockout/tagout was drilled in our heads in the hazwaste industry. There can now be little doubt whether psych screening for submarine volunteers has been kept updated rather than marginalized for the sake of quota. Gentile, a machinist mate, graduated from Lawrence High School in Fairfield, Me., where he was an honor student. I'm no lifer, either - I'm an ELT who got out after six. I always thought that was a dumb thing for the Force to do, remove their dolphins, because the anticipated embarrassment or imagined humiliation would incline a young man to keep quiet and stay on the boat in an unhealthy (for whatever reason) situation.

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