41 For Freedom - Polaris Submarines 2088

[@carlvella1898]

USS Will Rogers Blue Crew Plank Owner, 1966 -1970. Served as Sonar Tec. & Scuba Diver. A fantastic 4 year adventure providing memorys that only a very fortunate few can look back on. Attended our 50 yr. anniversary a few yrs. ago in New London. It was as if the intervening 50 yrs. did not exist. There were some physical changes of course, but same humor, same camaraderie. Looking forward to another reunion. This film is terrific. Especially seeing my onboard work out partner & friend Dick Marsland at the controls. There are certain things that I really miss. Tops among them the close friendships developed during those 4 yrs. Many thanks to Dick M. for sending this to me.

[@timallbritton7329]

As a guy who served on one of these boats in the late 70s-early 80s, I really enjoyed this . Thanks for the post!

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Thanks for your service to our great nation.

[@MrJimmyJay61]

I just wish they had showed the Grant... but it was still neat to learn the history behind her development.

[@thereyougoagain1280]

PeriscopeFilm it would be great if you could date the video in the description. It would be nice to know when the videos are from.

[@Rick-vw9gg]

@Robert Miller Grape!!

[@scottnj2503]

@Robert Miller Bravo Zulu brother. From a Tacamo Vet.

[@ssmt2]

Interesting film. Thanks for posting it. I served as a Missile Technician on the USS Simon Bolivar from November,1980 to December,1986. Seeing the shots of the missile compartment brought back some memories!

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Thanks for your service to our great nation.

[@samuelmatthews645]

Thank you for the film. Brought back many memories. God is good. Love you. Samuel

[@scottnj2503]

To Blue and Gold, from a Tacamo Vet '83-88. Bravo Zulu. Thanks for your service and regards to your loved one the kept the home fires burning while you were on patrol.

[@miguelschroth5996]

Nice job. The “Willy R.”. was excellent duty. Our unofficial motto was that we “ never met a person we wouldn’t nuke.”. chuckle, chuckle

[@thereyougoagain1280]

Thanks for the description, I thought the lady at the beginning looked like Jackie Kennedy.

[@JackpineGandy]

it should...she was sponsor for the Lafayette

[@robertwalters4676]

To all those who served, especially to those of my boat, the U.S.S. M.G. VALLEJO, SSBN 658. "Pride runs deep."

[@robertwalters4676]

@Robert Miller One great boat. I will never forget my experience. I was a "baby doc" and I can honestly say, Missle Techs were the hardest workers and hardest living men on the entire boat.

[@markbilsborough4150]

16 missiles away, a mushroom cloud, and its miller time. SSN685, SSBN626, SSN 698, SSBN 656, SSBN 654, AND SSN 763. 1974-1997. MMC/SS AGANG RET.

[@dougbennett4371]

These guys are the highest Iife form on earth. 22 patrols gold pin. God bless all these guys

[@CaptSquid659]

The only bad thing about Periscope Films is the time counter in frame.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Here's the issue: tens of thousands of films like this one were destroyed and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like this on online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes. So, in the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous KZbin users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content. We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to deal with these kind of issues.

[@xbubblehead]

As Mr. Reimers(You're in good hands with Allstate!) is talking at about 19 minutes in, I was standing to the left of the cameraman. Really weird seeing this 50 odd years later.

[@amyreynolds3619]

My boats were 622b, 624g, and 625g. I saw 624 commission.

[@mjrtom2501]

Just look at the past engineers that built planes ships and rockets they cared about the Quality of work they where doing !

[@abrahamanthony7106]

I appreciate the posting of this video but the large counter makes watching it prohibitively annoying.

[@timothysmith405]

Periscope Films provides "stock footage" for teachers, presenters, journalists...etc..etc... To view videos without the time code information just go to their website and become a member, then download a viewer, and enjoy the same videos without time code and better quality.

[@slowneutron6163]

Megadeth Rules.

[@mjrtom2501]

Just look at the past engineers that built planes ships and rockets they cared about the Quality of work they where doing !