Doc

   It is (as best I remember has been ~25 years since I qualed on Michigan) about 6' by 20' room in Missile House it has a bed in it and a drop down door so you can slide the body I mean stretcher sideways into the space I believe it was set up that if an operation was necessary it would actually be done in there not the wardroom like other boats It reminded me alot of want the business end of an ambulance looked like only much taller.

John

  You shoulkd include a picture of the Diesel for all the DBFers.

John, for some reason I'd like to see what a more modern head (toilet, shower, sink) looks like.

Can't do the "engine" thing: engineering spaces off limits!

Naive - Naive - Naive!

(I forgot that the terrorists have all but won already)

Talk about changes!  Even when I was working at the shipyard recently on the Ohio and Michigan conversions, it wasn't this tight!  * * * (picture this) * * * Board the bus, after verifying pre-registered name, social etc. with picture I.D., given a clip-on badge.  Travel to base.  Bus clears main gate after guard comes aboard making sure we weren't terrorists, then a few miles later at the second "inner-gate", another guard on bus to check us through to the Operations area.  Drive down to the waterfront, exit bus and go through another I.D. confirmation with a bunch of hard looking kids in body armor carrying some mean looking wepons.  Also a couple of armored vehicles with their turret guns manned, and concrete bunkers further manned (no females on guard here).  Board the bus again, drive down to Delta pier, disembark go to head of brow, more body armor, wepons and this time we get the wand (metal detector) front and back = finally aboard!!!!

OH! BYE THE WAY!!! The obvious (by now) - absolutely NO CAMERAS, cell phones that take pictures (pencil and paper to draw on, good memories, ad infinitum - LOL)...

HOWEVER, It was a great tour! The men of the Pennsylvania are a great bunch!   We were broken down into four groups and our 10 or so had the Navigator (LtCdr)as our guide.  One memorable moment occurred in the Nav Center when the Nav was telling us all about these great machines, that levitate a ball which spins at 36,000 rpm etc. etc. that keep track of position (interia)... He was so well versed that we couldn't ask much else "but" the subject of shooting the noon sun, or stars did come up.  He said that yes they did have a sexton, told one of his dept. guys to go find it.  The P.O. brings back the dusty wooden box with a beautiful Model 3 Mod 1 inside.  NO ONE on board uses it nor knows HOW to use it!  They inventory it along with everything else and it gets put back on it's shelf... The boat doesn't have the books to go with it nor do they do great with spherical trig!  Guess the QM's are totally out now with all the rates merging...

Curt, I couldn't find the plaque that you described in the goat locker although there were quite a few hung up!  Someone said that it might be outside the ward room but didn't catch it there either (???)  Doc, the wardroom table is stil the O.R., with a big medical locker aft in the missile compt. (stbd side, same level = 2nd deck)... I have pictures of the torpedo room, Sherwood Forest (Missile tubes) etc. from like kind Tridents and can post them later!  OHH! almost forgot, the desiel engine is in the lower level fwd and is a FM, 12 cylindar, 720 rpm...