Welcome back to the series
#AskTheMidsMonday, where we have midshipmen answer your questions.
For this Monday, we interviewed several first class (senior) midshipmen who have service selected submarines. The midshipmen featured are MIDN 1/C Vanessa Ortiz, MIDN 1/C Clifford Vuong, MIDN 1/C Amanda Agustin, and MIDN 1/C Joseph Day.
The three questions for our midshipmen were:
1) What’s your ideal submarine and where?
2) A submariner you look up to?
3) How do you pronounce this word: submariner?
Some terminology used:
Fast Attack: a multi-mission submarine capable of surveillance and intelligence gathering, special warfare operations, mining and anti-mine operations, precision strike, anti-submarine warfare, and anti-surface warfare, just to name a few.
Boomer: nickname given to a ballistic submarine designed specifically for stealth and the precise delivery of nuclear warheads. Boomers are approximately 200 feet longer than Fast Attack submarines, and the Trident class boomers are c...