I'm a WW2 Movie fanatic. I watched Run Silent, Run Deep this weekend. Then I saw this article and it reminded me of how young those kids and today's military personnel really are:
Run Silent Run Deep: The Kids Who Protect the US with Armageddon. The link provides a link to a video that is a snippet from “Life Aboard US Navy Ballistic Missile Submarine USS Wyoming.” Watch it carefully. Observe that the vast majority of the crew are very young; almost children. Observe the deep and focused seriousness with which they carry out their assigned tasks on the USS Wyoming when it is on station. Think about what it takes to serve for months sealed in a steel tube deep beneath the surface of the ocean with the constant unremitting whirr and whine of machinery. Take a look at the rack space, the personal space, these young crew members are given. Take a careful and thoughtful look at those scenes where they can be seen to be walking in a forest of carefully monitored and attended vertical tubes. The tubes hold the mission.
https://americandigest.org/wp/run-si...rld/#more-8176
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=UR9vdLeJzZc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wyoming_(SSBN-742)
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