U.S. Navy Base, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands
Shake Davis, Chan Dwyer and LCdr. Janet Dewey stood on the edge of the Navy base admin LZ and watched an MH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter approach on a low pass over two Los Angeles class fast-attack submarines moored alongside a tender in Apra Harbor. That would be their ride out to the USS Independence steaming somewhere out over the horizon and waiting to receive the final three members of the Operation Pineapple task force.
Recalling the time he’d spent doing underwater launch and recovery drills as a member of a Marine Force Reconnaissance Company, Shake nudged Chan and pointed at one of the boats that was taking on a sling-load of cargo from the tender’s midship crane. “At least we’re not working off a submarine. Closest I ever came to drown
