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More news from ssn-680.org, in a nutshell!
- Planning has started for REGROUPEX 25 - See "Contact Bearing 000" below.
- Upload your photos to SHIPMATE GALLERIES! - See "Shipmate Galleries Added" below!
- Some of us will gather at the USSVI convention in August - See "See You At Cleveland?" below.
Let me encourage you to visit the website. New material and users are added daily - the websites for various boats and commands are being fleshed out and it really is becoming what we envisioned a few years ago when we started out on the transition from one boat to 394 boats and another century of vanious support commands.
~ Brad Williamson
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Contact Bearing 000 - Designate REGROUPEX 25! It’s been seven years since our last reunion. In 2017, the last time we met in Orlando, the consensus was that we ought to be getting together every three years or so.
2020 came and went, with the lockdown and isolation squashing our reunion hopes fast than you can say “liberty ports confirmed through Hobart!”
2023 looked like a possibility, but the Navy was still restricting access to bases and boat tours, and before we knew it, 2024 was on us like a Sturgeon-class stretch hull on a Victor III - undetected, unexpected, and soon to vanish.
So here we are.
Miles Bradley poked us awake, as surely as a messenger yanking back the rack curtains. Ron Squiers and Scott Elder joined in the conversation, all starting with Miles’ question, “Any more reunions?”
The answer was a resounding yes, and now more than ever, which is how it must begin.
REGROUPEX 25 will be the next USS WILLIAM H. BATES (SSN 680) reunion. At the moment, we don’t know where, and we don’t know when, but we do know how.
That how depends on you…telling us what you think, volunteering to help, making your voice and support heard. After all, it’s you we do this for!
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SSN 680 - Shipmate Galleries added! Upload your images to your profile and Shipmate Galleries!
- Photos you uploaded to ssn-680.org becoming available on coldwarboats.org.
- All photos to date available at HOMEPORT >> SHIPMATE GALLERIES.
- Your photos are also visible on your user profile.
- Uploading photos can be done by any registered and logged in user.
Having never heard a discouraging word from my shipmates, I suspect many of you haven’t noticed. But surely some of you eagle-eyed observer types have been wondering where the photos you uploaded back in 2009-2011 went.
The good news is, they were never lost, just hiding away in the bowels of our server. During our conversion to Cold War Boats, starting back in 2018, and our last big software upgrade back in 2022, the software that supported displaying those images got left behind. The vendors that supplied those tools were having a hard time making them work under the new content management system upgrades, and still, to this date, haven’t been able to provide a reliable working model.
So, as experienced during our extended training missions with limited supply support, we had to find a work-around, and I’m pleased to announce that all those images you uploaded, and we are talking thousands here, are now (or soon will be!) accessible in our Shipmate Galleries.
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