stock here, another H/T to the Cuttlefish, LOL and remember Rocky The Dog? This is a multi part long read, maybe print it for some suntan reading.
https://www.rockythedog.net/spooky/disasters3.html
Wolfowitz’s 80 Billion Dollar Think Tank + Sinister Sub Warfare Causes Sumatra Earthquake
While researchers might think that America’s ousting by overt and covert means Slobodan Milosevic, the Taliban, and Saddam Hussein from power, smashing their regimes, and punishing countries like Iran, Turkey, Russia and North Korea which had tried to help them or exploit their difficulties would be the sum total of what was available to it, they would be wrong. Washington used not only land and space weapons against them but also undersea ones to make the terrible earthquake on December 26, 2004 which caused the deadly tsumanis which devastated the Muslim countries, lying around the Indian Ocean, in the hope of preventing them in any way from joining radical Islam in its growing fight against the West.
The origin of the new weapons was the result of continuing inter-service rivalry plaguing the Pentagon, especially that between the National Reconnaissance Office’s satellities and the US Navy, particularly its attack submarines – what just continued to rise despite the end of the Cold War with the Soviets. While all the services had had to reduce their numbers, close bases, settle for less money, find more effective weapons systems, and seek more relevant missions, the bloated Navy – thanks particularly to Reagan Navy Secretary John Lehman, Jr.’s wild amibition to control the seas by a 600-ship fleet – had the hardest time adjusting to the new situation since the new threats were based on land, and were only using the skies to spread their alleged missions. The US Navy seemed to be without a serious mission, now that freedom of the seas had been secured.
It was in this context that Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Vernon Clark took control of the service in July 2000, setting a task force on the dangerous mission of trailing the Kursk to show Secretary of Defense William Cohen that the Navy was still able to take it to the enemy – what resulted in the USS Toledo sinking the Soviet sub when the USS Memphis crashed into it from behind. While the disaster cost the USA dearly – President Clinton having to forget about the $10 billion debt that Putin’s Russian owed Washington – it was still seen by the gung-ho sailors as a great victory, though commanding officers of ships were increasingly screwing up in other missions, resulting in their losing it, because of the strain.
In the Toledo’s case, the crew boasted about its achievement in cryptic ways despite the risks it took in doing so. The sub’s seaman claimed that it was the best attack submarine in the Atlantic fleet though it had only arrived in 1985, and failed to be even mentioned in Sherry Sontag’s and Christopher Drew’s Blind Man’a Bluff: The Untold Story of American Espionage. In scanning their Appendix C, dealing with submarine awards from 1958 through 1998 (pp. 415-35), there is no mention of the USS Toledo.
Torpedo man Todd Grace aka Toredo still boasted about being the last on board during the “Northern Run” which, it seems, caused the disaster. Toredoes are shipworms noted for their ability to sink unsuspecting wooden ships, and Grace, along with his boss, sorely missed “Big Al”, had done the same to its steel counterparts with the latest version of the MK-48 torpedo when the Toledo thought that the Kursk was going to sink the Memphis after it collided with the Russian monster.
Actually, the USS Parche – the most rewarded attack submarine in the Atlantic Fleet – had won yet another Presidential Unit Citation (PUC) in the last year of the listing. It won eight in all, plus other lesser awards. The Parche – in Operation Ivy Bells at the beginning of March 1986 for which it received its fifth PUC – had bugged the same Soviet naval base in anticipation of Moscow being caught completely by surprise by the assassassination of Sweden’s statsminister Olof Palme. It was because of the spying for the Soviets by the Agency’s Aldrich ‘Rick’ Ames, the Bureau’s Robert Hanssen and others that its bugging, and the growing presence of a horde of other American attack submarines came as no surprise to the Soviets.
Even the USS Memphis – which was badly damaged when the Kursk was sunk – received the Navy Unit Citation in 1981, and the Meritorious Unit Commendation three years later, and it must have gotten some recognition for its trouble with the Kursk, though, of course, nothing that the Navy could officially acknowledge.
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I got this series from Trowbridge Ford who kindly let me reprint it. I put and index of them up as his stories were scattered on
his blog.