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Message: [QUOTE="The CDR-Ret, post: 3744739, member: 10751"] A submarine team is made up of a few people with talent for any given sport and those who will give anything a try because they don't want their shipmates to lack enough to make the minimum number of starters (out of the 100-ish personnel onboard), who are not on-watch that day. In basketball, I was one of the latter. Regardless, we all still "refuse to lose," Needless to say, not much basketball gets practiced onboard a submarine, but plenty of stories are told on the mid-watches.... The day we played the French, three of the better players were coming off watch and had been challenged by our hosts to a basketball game because the Frenchmen were taller than two of them, so they asked if I would like to play against the French team. The punch line to this is that we had a fleet exercise against the French carrier battelgroup scheduled for two days later, and we "sank" their carrier [simulated of course] with 5 minutes left on the three day clock to win the exercise (also with 1 nautical Mile inside the excercise zone). If either of the time and space limits had expired, we would not have won. In a different submarine, at a different time it was vs. Australia in rugby, but we only had one former player {not me] but won nevertheless.... [/QUOTE]