Submarine BBQ
 

Our Reconnaissance Regiment sometimes used submarines to transport them close to enemy shorelines. Small teams would then launch inflatable motor boats or canoes from the sub and make their way to the objective, do the task and return to the sub and make their way home. The trips we often relaxed affairs as can be seen in this picture taken on the Atlantic Ocean on the way north.

BBQ
 

OFS!

Steel beach BBQ! Excellent morale booster especially if there is a swim call associated.

How do you guys rate partying with Chuck Lidell? :D

He makes the salads. He is great with salads.

That's the best picture I've seen since Bachelor Party Vegas.

Nice braai :)

Ja, Tiro, the boerewors and sosatis are not on yet and the Castle Laughter is in the watertight locker, but things got festive later.

Good pic.....was that Sub made by Volkswagen?

Because it is a sub-compact? It was one of our Daphne Class, sold to us by the French if I remember correctly, the French being the only country with hi-tech hardware to sell us stuff. Mirages, Pumas, Allouettes, Super Frelons, subs. Aeromacchi, the Italian mob sold us a license to manufacture our own Impala trainers. WE got the license from FN to manufacture our own rifles and we captured RPGs for anti-tanl work because our old 3.5 Bazookas were pitiful.

Irreverant attitude
 

The South African soldiers attitude to ocean travel was quite irreverent. This shot was taken on the Indian Ocean going east.

Oh please tell me you had the Rolling Stones "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" blaring through the ships loudspeakers. :D

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That's where I would prefer to be on a sub- topside. I was sent to a sub in port to pick up some classified documents to bring back to the USS Worden.

The sub was about to launch, so things were pretty hectic on board. Food and supplies were being loaded, stacked and stored high in the p ways, and I had to crawl over them. Anyways, I was escorted to the radio room, and picked up the documents I was sent for. Once I had what I needed, my escort was nowhere to be found, but I didn't really need one because: 1) there was only one way to go, and 2) I was off that submarine as fast as humanly possible.:D

I was definately out of my element.

No, but there was a grumpy admiral on the ship the photo was taken from telling the troops to get serious.

Some more submarine past-times. Big Game Fishing.
 

Some more sports parade activities on long Atlantic voyages.

Nice dorado! Cook filets in butter and garlic with almonds, deelish!!

wow, that's pretty cool...:)

Not much better eating than grilled dolphin. (Cross-thread points.)

Thats the way to cook em. The garlic can be a bit anti-social in a submarine though.

Welcome back Guy.

That first photo makes me glad I picked the Army over the Navy!

I had considered joining the Navy out of High School but then thought I wouldn't do well trapped on a little boat out in the middle of the ocean!

Guy- Just serve Kim Chee on the side. Everyone will smell bad, AND, you get into North Korea with no problem...

Thanks MR2. Will try to avoid getting hot under the collar this time.

Yeah, we used to be the polecat of the planet some years ago. Its nice to hand the baton to N Korea at last.

As expected, the Army version was somewhat less glamourous.
 

Sand Skiing in enemy territory.