Sentence examples for former submarine from inspiring English sources

By late July, the appeal to former submarine officers was paying off.

A former submarine commander known for plain-speaking, Boyce advised the government on the deployment of British troops to Iraq.

Or maybe Mr Pumane, a former submarine officer, was not the sort of terrorist the authorities wanted to see in court.

A former submarine officer who is now a leading military analyst on state television, Song Xiaojun, insisted that the Chinese exercises should be taken at face value.

Fidel Azula, a former submarine captain and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said even the Colombian Navy lacked the knowledge to build such a vessel.

"The clash between the submarine team culture and the legal adversarial culture becomes very challenging," said John Brandes, a former submarine commander and former chief of staff at Pearl Harbor.

Former submariners say that many of the collisions have occurred because submarines have to navigate by interpreting sounds filtered through their sonar equipment.

As recounted in the 1997 book, "Hostile Waters," written by Mr. Huchthausen and two other men, including a former Soviet submarine officer, the sub clawed its way to the surface.

"He did a service to the submarine force that I don't think a lot of people recognize," said James L. Christley, a former torpedo man and now a submarine historian living in Lisbon.

As a former Navy submarine officer, I know that when required, our ships will "go in harm's way".

The service has spent years harassing Aleksandr Nikitin, a former Soviet submarine captain who wrote about the problem.