I don’t know much about it, but even though my papa quit the Navy, and
started working for a private company, he wasn’t totally done with the
military. The company had things called government contracts, which meant
they were building things for the military to use. The Navy still needed
submarines, and they wanted the kind that my papa was designing. One of
these special subs had a special ability. It could be used in different
kinds of water. It could survive really deep water, and also really shallow
water without getting caught on the ground below. I think what they were
thinking was to have something that could go just about anywhere on Earth
without ever having to be moved on land. Of course there are plenty of
bodies of water that aren’t connected, but even the ones that are connected
are hard to get to unless the ship is small enough. Submarines are
apparently even more difficult to make this work. Back in 2007, papa’s brand
new submarine was done, and it worked well in Lake Michigan, but they didn’t
know if it could handle the deep ocean yet. He took a business trip down to
Savannah, Georgia so the company could test it in a different environment.
This was all pretty secretive, so we’re not allowed to know exactly what the
submarine was like, but when he told me and my dad about it, he didn’t seem
upset, so we guessed that it went well. It’s possible that a bunch of subs
that my papa built are being used by the military right now, protecting our
country, and helping people all over the world. That’s a pretty cool
thought, don’t you agree?
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