Seems I may have misjudged the Captain's motives in going through the Samar Straits in the Philippines. Turns out that there's a Chinese sub tailing us, so he was trying to lose them through the strait, as submarines don't like having to surface to make a strait transit.

But the sub's captain is made of stern stuff, and he's still after us. The sailors are most unhappy.

We Marines are more sanguine about it. We sail all over the Pacific on training missions, so why shouldn't the Chinese? If we go to war over Taiwan, carrier groups are their number one target, but amphibious groups would be number two. They're just tailing us for practice, and there's nothing we can do about it.

And in a strange coincidence, today's General Quarters drill featured a simulated submarine attack. For the first time in the last two years, I might add. Normally the GQ drills have either air attacks, asymmetric surface attacks (speedboats with RPGs), or both.

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