Navy opens the curtain, a bit, to life aboard one of its San Diego-based submarines

U.S. Navy opens the curtain, a bit, to life aboard one of its submarines

Krystin Schei gasped and beamed with joy Thursday when a dark, menacing vessel sidled up to a pier at Naval Base Point Loma, a heavily-guarded nook in San Diego Bay. The fast-attack submarine USS Alexandria was returning from a seven-month deployment to the Indo-Pacific, and her husband, Christopher, was among the 130 crew members squeezing through its passageways. “I haven’t seen him for so long,” she said under a cloudless sky. “This is so exc…

Navy opens the curtain, a bit, to life aboard one of its California-based submarines

Krystin Schei gasped and beamed with joy Thursday when a dark, menacing vessel sidled up to a pier at Naval Base Point Loma, a heavily-guarded nook in San Diego Bay. The fast-attack submarine USS Alexandria was returning from a seven-month deployment to the Indo-Pacific, and her husband, Christopher, was among the 130 crew members squeezing through its passageways.   “I haven’t seen him for so long,” she said under a cloudless sky. “This is so e…

Navy opens the curtain, a bit, to life aboard one of its San Diego-based submarines

Krystin Schei gasped and beamed with joy Thursday when a dark, menacing vessel sidled up to a pier at Naval Base Point Loma, a heavily-guarded nook in San Diego Bay. The fast-attack submarine USS Alexandria was returning from a seven-month deployment to the Indo-Pacific, and her husband, Christopher, was among the 130 crew members squeezing through its passageways. “I haven’t seen him for so long,” she said under a cloudless sky. “This is so exc…

'Silent Service' sailors make noise at San Diego return

The fast-attack submarine USS Alexandria returned to San Diego Thursday after a seven-month deployment to the western Pacific.