Thought you all might find this interesting. My youngest son was on a nuclear sub (uss Pittsburg) for 8 years. One thanksgiving we were all sitting around BS’n and CNN was on the telle. The subject was how the US had subs with almost unlimited range. Son Jon said, “well since it’s on CNN” I can tell you; we were patrolling far north when we were dispatched to the “Med” the target was a high value terrorist meeting in the Saudi desert. They traveled submerged to the “med”,set up shop, and were in a position to obliterate everything within 1/2 mile of the terrorist powwow. All they needed was Clinton’s “go ahead”, well he couldn’t be located and after three days the opportunity was lost...Osoma bin laden was gone!!!
Note: they once travelled 43 days totally submerged. I asked him, “what did you all run out of? He said, strawberry jam!