 We're here on the PC South Dakota cruise mess. We're about to be being barbed on a submarine pinnacle. Two sailors are about to get their dolphins. And for this, it means it's a step for their careers. They have passes, barriers, qualification. We haven't trusted them to perform and do their duties. There will be a dolphin pinning ceremony cruise mess in five minutes. We refer to dolphins as our submarine qualification pin. That's what that means. Fish on your chest. That is fish dolphins. This is our submarine qualification pin. You see them on somebody's chest and you know they've got the knowledge and they know how to be able to save you if you're a ninja man. You know you can trust those guys if you're on watch. You're going to be able to save the ship at a time of need. Alright everybody, so today we have the honor and privilege of pinning two of our newest shipmates qualified in submarines after a long, hard qualification process. And Commander Liddy's first underway at the South Dakota Sea Ove. So with no further ado, I will turn it over to the Exoteric Citation. And pinners, please come up and pin our new shipmates. Commanding officer, PCU South Dakota, it takes pleasure presenting these submarine qualification certificates to, like trying technician's second class, Jacob Duckett, and machinist's mate in first class, Jacob Privet. Having successfully completed the rigged professional requirements for qualification of submarines, having gained a thorough knowledge of submarine construction operation, having demonstrated their reliability under stress, and having my full confidence and trust. And I hereby certify they are qualified in submarines. Presented this 27th day of November 2018. One more PCU South Dakota Sea Liddy, commanding officer of PCU South Dakota. Heritage fish from his father on the PCU Honolulu back in 1984. Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff. It was a nuclear mechanic. It's only half as good. TN Sooner, Jacob Duckett, MN1, Jacob Privet, time 0741. We secured from battle stations in a hurry because we were only 7,000 yards from the conjugal lighthouse. Certainly we'd been heard, if not seen. No sooner had we secured than another sooner was in sight. Again battle stations, and again the target was sunk. Later, a plane was picked up in the overcast at three miles. Diving, I heard six distant explosions as I left the coning tower, heading for my bunk. Swish. The diving officer heard me mutter. Sometimes I think they're actually testing our nerves. Smirking, he added, not with distant under below, sir. The submarine or only the submarine or realizes to what great extent an entire ship depends on them as individuals to a landsman is not understandable. And sometimes it is even difficult for us to comprehend. But it is so a submarine at sea is a different world in itself. And in consideration of the protracted and distant operations of submarines, the Navy must place responsibility and trust in the hands of those who take such ships to sea. In each submarine, there are those who in the hour of emergency or peril at sea can turn to each other. These individuals are ultimately responsible to themselves and each to the other for all aspects of operation of their submarine. They are the crew. They are the ship. This is perhaps the most difficult and demanding assignment in the Navy. There is not an instant during their tour as a submarine that they can escape the grasp of responsibility. These privileges and view of their obligations are almost ludicrously small. Nevertheless, it is the spur which has given the Navy its greatest marines. The men and women of the submarine service. It is a duty which most richly deserves the proud and time-honored title, Submariner. At the Officer Privic Intest, it's been a team journey with all the nukes getting qualified fish. And so it definitely wasn't me alone. It definitely wasn't me and it was the whole team. Well done, guys. My name is Alvin Arnold. I'm from Memphis, Tennessee. My rank is CSS3 Arnold. It was a journey. I went to college, to the D2 College Play football. Then from there, decided I wanted to join the military. Who influenced my decision to join? It was most definitely my daughter. Her being born made sure that we wanted to be the man that she could look up to. They loved the fact that I'm in the military day. I was like, you going a lot? But at the same time, they just love it when you come home. My family had a lot of questions on, like, my mom used to love to say, like, is it windows on there? Are you gonna be able to look at fish? I'm like, I have no idea. I really had no idea. But now, most definitely, my family supports my decision. It's really not that bad. Submarine is really not that bad. I know a lot of people try to kind of paint the picture that it might be or it's like hard, but it's really one of the best jobs I've ever had compared to working in warehouses and everything else that I've done in my life. It's really a good opportunity. I do see this as something I can do for 20 years, but I'm always a man that has a plan A and plan B. I will be going to school to do EMTP and everything just in case. It doesn't work out, but most definitely going out to sea for six months, doing nothing but saving money, come back and everything is taken care of. You will have trials, you will have hard days, but it's all about working your way through it. And that's what makes you stronger at the end of the day. I'm a culinary specialist on the submarine, which consists of a couple things like I'm basically the key to morale on the boat. Our food is what brings them joy. And if they're having a real bad day, they can come down and get some good child turns their whole day around. Also, with parts of that, I'm with the EMAT team, which is the emergency medical team, where we're assisting people as well. So not only are we feeding them, we're taking care of them physically as well. Most definitely everybody on the submarine has more than one job. That's what I like about the camaraderie about it, because basically everybody has a job of learning each other's job. Everybody's able to take care of one of another. That's the whole meaning about having your fish. Most definitely I enjoy being on submarines more. Some people on cruisers never get to see their captain, but they never get to talk. Mine, I can just step through one door and have a full conversation with them. So what's really unique about submarines for me is the racks. That's what I would say. A lot of people wouldn't, but I've never lived in the condition where I was like, wow. But it's convenient, like you just close these six people to a burden. You might even have 18 man where it's a lot more people in there. But it's like after a while, there's just something you come accustomed to. The describing of a rack would be more so of me showing you, because it's literally have about this much room. Maybe you could turn on your side a bigger guy like me. Every time I turn on my side, I hit my fan and it's a little hard for me. So the rack is like a bedroom. It's very small, which is like hard for a big guy like me. Let's go ahead. Come on this way. I can go ahead and go. So we're going upper level. This is upper level of the part of the boat going more so back after. So every time people say come up the ladder, you say up ladder. Just notify people that you're coming up just case they can't see you. So all these spaces is pretty much our burden living spaces where you come in and this is pretty six men to one burden living space from up here. Top rack middle at lower. It's basically where we sleep. We spend our nights. So this is our bedroom. This is where we live when we're not working. So it's six people to every burden until you go to like 18 man, which is a larger burden, which is a larger living space. And it can get up to 34 people depending on if they're hot racking, which means once one person goes on watch, the other person gets a chance to go to sleep. So I had to take off my shoes. I don't want to turn this way because I don't want to. It's pretty much how it's done like that. She a bigger guy like me. But the good thing about a burden that's like up at this level, I can scoot up at night, have a little bit of room. I have my fan right here. My foot locker. Then when I'm ready to go to bed, I just go down, close my curtains, call it a night. Ship is operating water assigned to us for submerged operation by Opsked 48 tech one eight verified by the NAB and myself. Sounding is 1385 fathoms beneath the keel and checks with chart. I have verified that my watch team is ready to submerge the ship. I intend to submerge the ship to 155 feet. Here we'll have to next. Here we'll I sir submerged ship by sir. Piley submerge the ship make your depth 155 feet. Submerge the ship make my depth 155 feet. Pile it out. Submerge the ship make my depth 155 feet. Pile it out. I don't want to see it die, die, die. Too last. I've learned die, die. I don't want to see it die, die. Too last. I've learned die, die. Pile it out. Go pile it out. Die, die. Pile it out. Go pile it out. Die. Die. Pile it out. Go pile it out. Die. Die. Die. Pile, then it's open, bending forward, bending out.