2/C Summer Cruise locations

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RyanHinrichs6

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Hello,

Do any of you know where the locations for 2/C summer cruises are? I know we will not find out, but I would like to know where I could possibly end up. Thank you and have a great day!
 
Not an official link so look up "USNA Summer Training: 2/C Gray Hull Cruise and Other Adventures" on a site called Navy Online. It's a good overview. Other posts are correct - can be any location - one sub cruise was from Pearl Harbor, others east ports/ locations etc. Ships - heard of SWO cruises around the world - Asia, Europe, San Diego, Virginia - both US Coasts, etc.

Sometimes subs pull into port to begin a 2/c summer cruise, but subs are appropriately fanatical about OPSEC and protection. My DS was brought out to an unspecified location in the Pacific a couple of hours offshore, via I kid you not a nondescript tug boat, and out of nowhere seemingly a LA class sub arose from the depths next to the tug, a platform was extended for him to board. Then very quickly they auuuuga- auuuuga (Claxon sound) battened all hatches, re-submerged and off they went for that summer cruise. I thought that was a lot of fun.

Good luck.
 
justme said:
I think DS' 2C cruise was all of 4 days, and docked the rest.
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Pro Tip: Unless the ship was completely out of the water, ie: Drydock, the proper term is in port.

My Youngster cruise was underway for 3 days of the 6 weeks that I was aboard. The rest was in port Norfolk.

My 1/C cruise was aboard a deployed amphib but underway for only a few days and the rest of the time we were in port at
several ports in Italy.
 
Parent1stTimer said:
My MIDN has it Block 1. I've heard it could be anywhere and also even on a docked ship?!? Maybe hear about where a week before it starts.
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Same here! Also find it amusing I’m more interested in the ship then they are. The go with whatever is strong apparently.
 
Some of my funnest memories as a little dude were running around on my dad's ships when we got a weekend cruise for the kids. I would try to explore the entire ship every time. I wonder if they even do anything like that anymore.
 
OldRetSWO said:
Pro Tip: Unless the ship was completely out of the water, ie: Drydock, the proper term is in port.

My Youngster cruise was underway for 3 days of the 6 weeks that I was aboard. The rest was in port Norfolk.

My 1/C cruise was aboard a deployed amphib but underway for only a few days and the rest of the time we were in port at
several ports in Italy.
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Thanks! This is one that doesn't know what to call most of the things DS talks about and has to ask often - "What do those words or letters mean?" :scratch:
 
Parent1stTimer said:
I've heard it could be anywhere and also even on a docked ship?!?
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OldRetSWO said:
My Youngster cruise was underway for 3 days of the 6 weeks that I was aboard. The rest was in port Norfolk.
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Sometimes operation schedules don't happen as planned. My First Class cruise was supposed to be a frigate out of Newport. The ship got delayed in the yards doing a refit, so I reported to the ship in the Boston Shipyards, not far from the Fanueil Hall district. That was fun, it was in the midst of the 1984 Olympics, and all the bars had specials every day the US won a gold medal (and with the Russians boycotting, that was every day), You can learn a lot from a ship in port...my ship actually "sank" at the pier when a improperly installed valve caused flooding and the ship reportedly came to rest on the bottom of the harbor. I was in Damage Control Center logging all the communications and orders... an interesting day ! Next day the Midshipman were removed and sent to another frigate out of Newport, and we got about a week underway, first to the Maine Lobster Fest in Rockland Maine, then to Earle NJ to download weapons so the ship could go to into the same shipyard that ship #1 was at.
 
USNA75 said:
Some of my best memories are not about come arounds, chow calls or chopping through Mother B, but actually the summer cruises.
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Youngster Cruise was a WestPac from San Diego to Yokosuka, Subic Bay, Hong Kong and Pearl Harbor. 300 youngsters with some firsties on the USS Vancouver along with the Dubuque, similarly manned.
2/C cruise was PROTRAMID (Quantico, New London, Newport and P’cola (a week each); a YP cruise from Annapolis to Little Creek then a week in DC school in Norfolk.
1/c cruise was on the USS Guadalcanal. Flew into Athens, port call in Naples/Rome, amphibious exercise in Sardinia, then offloaded in Rota. In Sardinia, I finagled 10 days ashore with the Marines for the amphibious exercise.
Then I did Plebe Summer detail which was a hoot.
 
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