I served on boomers. This is incredibly unusual news. We never, ever, pulled into ports without the appropriate security. This includes US military bases. There are only basically 2 places in the country these boats are allowed to tie up.

In case of emergencies, if we absolutely had to offload someone or pick up supplies, we would loiter in the area and have a small boat come out. I pulled into the basin at Pearl Harbor 15 times, and never once threw a line over to moor. We would just refresh supplies and do personal transfer from the basin, then head back out.

If Pearl Harbor doesn’t have the required security protocols to moor a boomer, how the fuck are they pulling into foreign ports? I am so glad I’m not on that crew. Everyone is standing security on that bitch. No one is going out and getting drunk.

This is a marker of some sort. We haven’t done this with missile boats since the 80s. I’m not sure what kind of seismic shift in policy must have occurred that we are doing this now. It boggles my mind to be honest.

One possibility I don’t think anyone has realized. There may not be any warheads in them. That would allow them to behave like a fast boat, dropping the security levels required for port calls.

Holy fuck this is weird. A complete break from decades now of security policy in the SSBN fleet.