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  LETHAL INTENTIONS

  BY DAVE ANDERSON

  SUB SURFACE BOOK 2

  Table of COntents

  CONTENTS

  Cast of Characters:

  LIST OF ACRONYMS:

  PROLOGUE

  CHAPTER 1

  CHAPTER 2

  CHAPTER 3

  CHAPTER 4

  CHAPTER 5

  CHAPTER 6

  CHAPTER 7

  CHAPTER 8

  CHAPTER 9

  CHAPTER 10

  CHAPTER 11

  CHAPTER 12

  CHAPTER 13

  CHAPTER 14

  CHAPTER 15

  CHAPTER 16

  CHAPTER 17

  CHAPTER 18

  CHAPTER 19

  CHAPTER 20

  CHAPTER 21

  CHAPTER 22

  CHAPTER 23

  CHAPTER 24

  CHAPTER 25

  CHAPTER 26

  CHAPTER 27

  CHAPTER 28

  CHAPTER 29

  CHAPTER 30

  CHAPTER 31

  CHAPTER 32

  CHAPTER 33

  CHAPTER 34

  CHAPTER 35

  CHAPTER 36

  CHAPTER 37

  CHAPTER 38

  CHAPTER 39

  CHAPTER 40

  CHAPTER 41

  CHAPTER 42

  CHAPTER 43

  CHAPTER 44

  CHAPTER 45

  CHAPTER 46

  CHAPTER 47

  CHAPTER 48

  CHAPTER 49

  CHAPTER 50

  CHAPTER 51

  CHAPTER 52

  CHAPTER 53

  CHAPTER 54

  EPILOGUE

  THIS BOOK IS A WORK OF FICTION CRAFTED IN MY MIND. CHARACTERS IN THE BOOK ARE FICTIONAL AND NOT INTENDED TO REPRESENT ANY OF THE ACTUAL SUBMARINE BROTHERS AND SISTERS I HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE TO HAVE SERVED WITH OVER MY 23 YEARS OF NAVAL SERVICE.

  Any new fangled gadgets in this book are merely an active mind’s creations and no way reflect the realities of real Submarining. We have never been there or done that. At least not inREAL LIFE.

  I WEAR MY DOLPHINS PROUDLY AS SHOULD ALL OF YOU.

  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  Wow!

  Where would one start with acknowledgements?

  After 23 years in the United States Submarine Navy, two trips through Naval Nuclear Power School, once enlisted and then I signed up again as an Officer, three boats, several shore duties, the opportunity to go back to college and to go to Naval Postgraduate School for a Finance Management MBA, who would you acknowledge?

  I’ll give it a shot.

  Editorial help: EM1(SS) Liam Murphy, now civilian, was an Electricians Mate on WYOMING Blue when I got there, and we are friends on Facebook through a couple boat related pages. He has graciously provided hours of his time going through the books’ text to verify I was consistent with how I annotated boat names and time stamps etc. It was much harder doing that in the first book. He provided over 100 edits and recommendations. I truly appreciate your help!!

  First, my now wife, Tracey T. Anderson. She has endured a lot with me. Although she didn’t know me in my Navy Days nor did she experience the life of a Submariner that refined my never-ending childish behavior and humor, she has been through a lot.

  We lost her son Colby Haithcock back in February 2018. He was a passenger in a friend’s truck, his extreme love for big diesel trucks prompted the ride, after they left a party at another friend’s farm. Teenage alcohol and driving inexperience led to the accident that killed Colby almost instantly. It seems there is some dispute whether he lived briefly trapped in the truck. We hope he didn’t.

  Regardless, that has been very traumatic and hard to deal with. The first book, Keep Silent Service, had been finished over a year before that accident and I did not pick it up until this past November when I decided to self-publish it (trying to get an agent and hundreds of rejection letters takes a lot out of you).

  I decided to donate any money received to the COLBY HAITHCOCK MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND, so I brushed it off, did a little editing and tried to figure out how to publish it. It turns out to be easy.

  We created the fund to provide scholarships for an electrical lineman’s program here in NC, as Colby dreamed of following his dad into that business. We also provide money to local schools for classroom supplies in a program called CRAYONS FROM COLBY.

  Naval Career

  If, during the course of this book, you read about funny situations or sea story type settings, know that these are real life stories that some crew member stationed with me or with my friends actually did. Man, sometimes we do crazy things. I wanted to relay a few funny moments.

  I joined the Navy on August 26th, 1987. I joined at 20 years old to get away from the pattern of living I had developed. A typical story of many Nukes in Orlando at that time, I dropped out of College, drank way too much, killed a couple cars, and had way too many points on my license. So, I made the choice to join the Nuclear Power Program to make sure I grew up and stopped wasting my parents’ money and sanity. So, this would be the thank you for raising me the best way you could, and I am sorry for the stresses I caused back then.

  I have met, worked with, worked for, and had employees that represent every facet of America. They have been the best people you could ever hope to be around. The United Stated Navy’s Submarine Service truly breeds the best and the brightest.

  USS PARCHE SSN 683 was the most amazing boat you could have been on. Being there to add the 100-foot plug, all its super-secret stuff and do the things it was meant to do was very rewarding and formed the man I would become. The gadgets I fabricated in these books come from that experience. Most of us will go to the grave with the secrets of what was in that plug.

  USS WYOMING SSBN 742 (B) had an incredible crew, the BEST ASSEMBLED A-GANG ever (almost every single one of them went on to make CHIEF or higher. MMCM(SS) Vince Vinson was an incredible A-Gang Chief and went on to do great things everywhere. I hope you are enjoying that Kentucky retirement slaying game, making sausage, drinking bourbon, and just being the great person that you are.

  Captain Jeffrey Hughes was the best CO I ever worked for. He made you feel like you disappointed your dad if something went wrong. He impressed me greatly the day I saw the yellow sticky on his desk that said, “Who have you told they did a great job today?”

  I followed him to S8G Prototype as a Shift Engineer and STG-O, so I had a lot of FITREPS signed Jeffrey Hughes, Commanding Officer. Thank you for every part of that.

  USS GREENEVILLE SSN-772: Navigator and Operations Officer Department Head tour. YEE-HAA. I wasn’t supposed to be a navigator, but BUPERS changed it and sent me to GREENEVILLE on the day we graduated from Department Head School.

  GREENEVILLE truly was an ASDS platform and we did several training missions with ASDS, including a test operation out of Guam. We thought she would be green-lighted to fully operational and given tasking from there, but it didn’t happen. They flew her home and soon after her battery explosion occurred, effectively ending the ASDS program. It would have been badass in real operations.

  It was a great experience up and until Commander Alan Dorrbecker showed up to relieve as CO. Plainly speaking, I hope you’re getting drilled in prison.

  Dorrbecker was a screamer that liked to yell and scream in your face, berate everyone around him, and get off on making people nervous. Sorry little Napoleon, you didn’t physically intimidate me nor would screaming illicit fear. I calmly went and fixed the issue. Long story short, he played games with evals and fitreps, and got his jollies by removing my XO RECOMMENDATION to prevent me from being an XO. Did I mention Dorrbecker went on to be removed from Submarine Career paths, wen
t to Italy and decided the 15-year-old girl at the exchange was the love of his life. He began sending pictures to her, although it was a NCIS agent. Enjoy 8 years in prison, homie; karma truly gets you in the end.

  This ended my submarine career. I retired after a 2-year shore tour building Submarine Budgets for New Programs. This is the other half of imagination building reality. The programs we were funding in 2010 for the coming years’ budgets were incredible jumps in capabilities for Submarine. Man, cool stuff going on out there now. I should have retired this past year at 30 years as a Post Command Commanding Officer. I truly believe Dorrbecker lost a benefit to the Navy.

  To my peers in Nuke School Class 9805, man we were a great group. 23 total students in Officer class 9805. 14 Navy and 9 civilians. All but 5 or so of us were prior enlisted nukes. We had so much fun pissing off the staff in Orlando. Most went on to great careers, several are now Post Command CO’s, and a few ended up in my books under different names.

  The Navy cost me my first marriage, too much time away from home and a wife that felt she had to do everything alone. My kids are the ones that suffered the most. Cam, I am truly sorry for how this all played out.

  Post retirement: I have been in several jobs since retiring and spent an extended period unemployed. There truly are no civilian jobs that come close to the brotherhood of the submarine force. However, there are great people and I have met a bunch of them. Had I not retired, I would be less of a man that I am for not having met many.

  Olivia, Oliver and Annalise Anderson, you truly are my heart and I miss you every day you are away from me. Olivia lives her own life in Hawaii and has lived there the last 5 years. I miss you, please come home.

  Oliver and Annalise get to spend summers and holidays with my wife Tracey and me. I enjoy every moment, even the boring sitting around the house parts because I know you are close. I can’t wait for college, you will be even closer.

  Tracey Thornburg Anderson, I thank God for meeting you. I am proud you are my wife and share your life with me along this road. I look forward to overcoming the trials that we have been placed into and creating a better life for our kids and us. I’d give you the world.

  Jonathan Coble (Jon Jon), my brother from another mother. Brother, I appreciate everything you do for Tracey and me. You probably are one of the best people I have ever met. I feel as though I take advantage of your friendship with all the things you help us with.

  Lastly, the Colby Haithcock Memorial Scholarship is a Federal Non-Profit, EIN 82-1134886. It was originally created for our riding club, Big Dawgz Riding Club, to raise money for military and veteran charities. It was converted after Colby’s death. All proceeds from this and other books fund that scholarship. The royalties off the book you just purchased and are starting to read, if I haven’t bored you with this part, go directly toward funding that scholarship fund.

  Because of this, please recommend this series to your friends and family. I feel they can gain insight into the daily life you the submariner spent under water, poking holes in Indian Territory. The more sharing and discussion you help generate, the more this will grow, and we can do amazing things helping to keep Colby’s dreams alive.

  Web: https://www.colbyhaithcockmemorialscholarship.com/

  Amazon Smile: If you are an avid Amazon shopper, consider using smile.amazon.com and donating to a charity. We hope you will choose Big Dawgz Riding Club but either way, choose a charity you prefer. You get the same prices through your Amazon account. Amazon donates pennies on the dollar to the charity you choose.

  ENJOY LETHAL INTENTIONS!

  Cast of characters:

  Greensboro NC Steele Psychology Institute

  Jillian Steel, Lead Psychologist

  Megan Siler, Assistant to Jillian

  MORS DE MARI LLC

  Lance “Floppy” Spears, SOCM Retired, Co-Owner

  Rocky Stone, CDR-R, SEAL

  WASHINGTON DC

  PRESIDENT: Ronald “Viper” Davis

  VICE PRESIDENT: Samuel Johnson

  SECRETARY OF STATE: Valerie Lakeland

  SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Peter Bohner

  CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF: General Rupert Carmona

  CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS: ADM Frank Johannson

  Presidential Assistant: Melissa Griffin

  Pentagon

  CAPT Alan Hughes, program Officer, SILENT SCREAM PROJECT

  LCDR Cindy Daniels, Communications Officer

  Pentagon: Major Sammy Byerly, Air Force Missile Detection Officer

  Submarine Group 7 (CSG-7) Yokosuka Japan

  Rear Admiral Jerry Hunter, Commanding

  Squadron 15 Submarine Base Guam

  Captain George Sampson, Commanding

  CDR Brance Lincoln, Deputy

  USS GREENEVILLE SSN 772

  OFFICERS

  COMMANDING OFFICER (CO): CDR Tom Buckner

  EXECUTIVE OFFICER (XO): LCDR Jesse Anderson

  NAVIGATOR/OPERATIONS OFFICER (NAV): LCDR Terrence Holt

  WEAPONS OFFICER (WEPS): LCDR Craig Norton

  ENGINEER (ENG): LCDR Bradley Stevens

  DAMAGE CONTROL OFFICER (DCA): LT Justin “JJ” Jameson

  COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER (COMMO): LTJG Dan Bortles

  ELECTRICAL ASSISTANT (EA): Ensign Adam Jackson

  MAIN PROPULSION ASSISTANT (MPA): LTJG Rachel Davis

  REACTOR CONTROLS OFFICER (RCA): LTJG Ginger Williams

  SUPPLY OFFICER (CHOP): LTJG Brooklyn Key

  ENLISTED

  CHIEF OF THE BOAT

  MMCM(SS) Jorge Martinez

  ENGINEERING DEPT MASTER CHIEF

  EMNCM(SS) Barry Stevens

  DOC

  HMC(SS) Freddie Munoz

  AUXILIARY DIVISION

  MMAC(SS) Anthony Harder: A-Gang LCPO

  MMA1(SS) Rick Simpson: A-Gang LPO

  MMA2(SS) Freda Robbins

  MMA2(SS) Brooks Griffith

  MMA3(SU) Jessel Anderson

  ELECTRICAL DIVISION

  EMNC(SS) Dean Shelton

  EMN1(SS) Larry Johnson: E-Div. LPO

  EMN2(SS) Bobbi Gregory

  Fire Control Division

  FT1(SS) Burt Nelson

  FT2(SS) Samantha Jenkins

  FT3(SU) Chris Hogart

  MACHINIST MATES (NUCLEAR)

  MMN1(SS) Bianca Sharp

  MMN1(SS) Dusty Wilson

  MMN2(SU) Kelly Rodgers

  MACHINIST MATES (TORPEDO)

  MMWCS(SS) Clifton Kivett

  MMW1(SS) Freddy Easton

  MMW2(SS) Stephen Carlson

  NAVIGATION ELECTRONICS TECHS

  ETC(SS) Jerry Landon

  ET1(SS) Nelson Bridges

  ET2(SS) Lonny Wright

  RADIO DIVISION

  ETR1(SS) Charles Avery

  ETR2(SS) Clyde Haynes

  REACTOR CONTROLS DIVISION

  ETN2(SS) Jarred McManigal

  ETN2 (SS) Justin Washington

  SONAR DIVISION

  STSC(SS) Ashton Thornburg

  STS1(SS) Paul Perkins

  STS2(SS) Julie Locklear

  STS2(SS) Michelle Franks

  STS3(SU) Leroy Cruchfield

  DEVGRU SEAL TEAM Contingent

  CDR Nick Solerson

  LCDR Rob “Yeoman” Bryerson

  LT Kurt “TD” Warner

  SOC Jamie “Farmer” brown

  SO1 Homer “Doughnuts” Nelson

  SO1 Kevin Lancaster

  SO1 Jonathan “Red” Blevins

  SO2 Don “Miami” Jenkins

  SO2 Zeke Baker

  SO2 Jordan Michaels

  GROUP 2 GROTON CT

  Admiral Frederick “Freddy” Chase

  YNCS Norman baker

  USS NEW HAMPSHIRE SSN-778

  CDR Casey Leonard, Commanding Officer

  LCDR Aubrey Harrelson, Executive Officer

  ETRCM Zack Toben, Chief of the Boat

  LCDR Peter Zakrewski, Navigator

  LT Ryan Jackson

 
LT Brady Porter

  ETNCS(SS) Lincoln Ryker

  CSC(SS) Stuart Gibbons

  MM2(SS) Griffith

  STS1(SS) Deonte Jones

  STS2 Eric Benedict