After three days, it got nice and calm -- until the skipper announced we had been in a hurricane, were in the eye at present and would have another two days coming out the other side.

Schools and rapid advancement ... made me think that a career in the Navy might not be too bad,

We informed our people on the surface, tracked it for a while and then headed to port. After we left port, I was in the executive officer's quarters and noticed a newspaper picture of a submarine with an article stating it was the first time a Russians nuclear submarine had ever been photographed on the surface while in operating waters,

Maybe I'll just put in $20 bucks at a time or do less traveling,

I went over to Great Lakes and got myself a new uniform to wear,