'The Submarine Tradition.''Ī collaborative effort by virtue of its viewers offering me help, The trust and respect and sense of personal responsibility is. Some don't even know what personal responsibility is. The bond is one of personal responsibility. It is one of mutual respect - blind to color, ethnicity, religion, nationality and gender. The bond is not one of close friendship, even though those do grow out of the time spent aboard a boat. Every submariner who ever put to sea and submerged has placed in the hands of another, their very lives. It tends to create a bond between those who have served that is born of trust.

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