Halibut, I remarked to the Detailer why sure I remember her she was tied up to Sierra 13 Pearl Harbor Submarine Base as I remember and did not seem to go out very often. We used to guide Regulus for her while on Cusk SS 348. Could not find a Boomer on the West Coast and with only four years remaining did not want to return to the East Coast. Called XO he informed me that Halibut had been in Mare Island Naval Shipyard for some time having modifications made and expected to make a "special ops" soon after I was to report on board in late August 1971. She was a Nuke so how could I go wrong? Halibut proved to be the most intriguing ship I had ever heard of let alone serve on and quite a challenge for me. As Chief Reedy said at the 2000 reunion in Atlantic City concerning the projects Halibut was involved in and after reading Blind Mans Bluff written by New York Times investigative Journalists Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew and Spy Boat authored by crewman RO Roger Dunham and after being reminded by Project Officer Peter Moffett about our "Secrecy Oaths that are still in effect," Jack Reedy would say "in accordance with the books"…. I had taken the test for E9 While serving as the Senior Enlisted Advisor and the Shore Patrol Operations Officer at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and was scheduled for advancement at Captain NcNish's pleasure, he pinned my E9 devices on in Halibuts Wardroom 2-1-72 after I had qualified Halibut and EWS on our way home from the first Halibut Special Ops I made. Virginia and I took our 22-ft Bayliner from Anacortes Washington to Juneau Alaska in 1996 to visit with Halibut Shipmate Galen Drake. Galen made the last Halibut Special Ops and several previous, I told him that he should write a book his reply was that Admiral Larson had let him know very diplomatically that he would not like to see another book about Halibut. Admiral Larson was in a position to approve Rogers's book and did. " Chuck Larson, last CO of Halibut and featured reunion speaker, was also CSDG1 for a while and was in a position to make sure the Navy didn't object to Roger Dunham's book before it went to press. Small world. Regards, Peter"

After Blind Mans Bluff I told Galen he should document everything he could remember because one day he might want to write, write, write. >P> Senior Chief Electrician Harry Horn was my trainee the last year or so aboard but he could just not seem to be able to pass The oral exam for EWS. Harry retired about the same time I did. He and family settled in Belgrade Montana. Harry was way over on his shipping allowance so sent a bunch of his stuff to my home in Idaho, he and one of his Daughters came to Idaho several years later to pick it all up. Harry was a long haul truck driver and it seems that in 1987 he had a heart attack on the road some where near his home in Belgrade Montana. He had just spent Christmas with Wife Peggy and children in California but had to get back on the road, it is Ironic that he should have died so near home. Virginia and I visited with Peggy in 1988 she was living in Boseman we were on our way to Missouri to visit friends. I always thought I had let him down as far as qualification for Ews but he had been on so many Nuke Plants that he just could not separate them.>/P> Very Respectfully Gary Tucker MMCM(SS)USNRET.