A WORD FROM OUR FORMER CNO ADM WALLBANGER

It is always a sad day when one of ours retire from active duty. But at the same time, it is always time for fine memories of friendship and happy days and nights of hard fought battles and great fun. As a GNSF Retired Members, these fine Officers will always remain part of GNSF and are welcome to come back to active duty any time they wish, or just come to the Officer's club for a chat or a quick game. Their records will always be kept as a reminder of their continued involvement, dedication, achievements, and especially the solid friendships they have so galantly shared with all of us over all their years of service.

GNSF ADMIRAL CLASH RET

2009-11-05

ADMIRAL CLASH HAD A LONG AND SUCCESSFULL CAREER FOR OVER 8 YEARS AND IS A PIONEER IN THE MAKING OF GNSF. HE IS A GNSF ORDER OF MERIT RECIPIENT. THIS FINE OFFICER WAS ALWAYS FIRST TO HELP AND SO HELD MANY KEY STAFF POSITIONS LIKE JAG AND DIRECTOR OF R&D WHERE HE REALLY LEFT HIS MARK. AN EXCELLENT PLAYER ALL AROUND, HE WAS PART OF 10 WAR CONFLICTS WITH GNSF AND WAS ALWAYS AN EXAMPLE TO FOLLOW FOR ALL OF US. IT IS WITH SADNESS THAT I SEE THIS OFFICE RETIRE, BUT HE WILL ALWAYS HAVE A HOME HERE AND I AM PROUD TO HAVE SERVE WITH HIM AS A FELLOW OFFICER, AND A FRIEND I COULD ALWAYS COUNT ON.

Admiral Wallbanger CNO-GNSF.

GNSF ADMIRAL SPARKS RET

2011-03-02

ADMIRAL SPARKS’ CAREER WAS LONG AND SUCCESSFULL, SPANNING ALMOST A FULL DECADE. AN EXAMPLE TO BE FOLLOWED, WHAT MAKES HIS CAREER TRULY DISTINGUISHED IS THAT HE WAS AT THE HEART OF SO MANY KEY MOMENTS OF OUR COMMON ONLINE ENDEAVOR. A FORMER SEAWOLF, ADMIRAL SPARKS STARTED HIS ONLINE ADVENTURE BACK IN 2001. HE WAS ALWAYS LOOKING TO IMPROVE HIMSELF AND EVERYTHING AROUND HIM IN ANY IMAGINABLE WAY; HE WAS PLEASANTLY OPEN TO MANY NEW CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITY. THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER, HE SERVED IN A GREAT VARIATY OF POSITIONS; FLEET COMMANDER CHIEF TRAINING OFFICER, COMMAMDER IN CHIEF PACIFIC THEATER, TASK FORCE COMMANDER, DIRECTOR OF PERSONNEL, YOU NAME IT, HE DID IT.BUT ABOVE ALL HE WA ALWAYS THERE, SHARING HIS CONCERNS AND OFFERING HIS IDEAS AND HELP WHEREVER REQUIRED. ONE NEED LOOK NO FURTHER TO APPRECIATE HIS DRIVE AND DEDICATION: WE ARE TALKING OF AN OFFICER WHO TOOK LEAVE FROM WORK IN ORDER TO ATTEND AN ADVANCED SUBMARINE COURSE, WAKING UP IN UNFRIENDLY HOURS BACK IN THE DAY WHEN COURSE SCHEDULES WERE HARDLY ACCOMODATING. AND WHEN GNSF WAS FOUNDED, THE THEN RDML SPARKS WAS ONE OF THE TWO POEPLE WHO KEPT MANUAL TRACK AND SCORE OF EACH AND EVERY REPORTS, SO NOTHING WOULD BE LOST UNTIL AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM WAS INTRODUCED. I DO NOT KNOW MANY POEPLE WHO WOULD DO SUCH THINGS. AND I BARELY KNOW OF ANYONE WHO WOULD DO ALL OF WHAT ADMIRAL SPARKS HAS DONE, FOR NO MATERIAL BENEFIT, BUT ONLY OUT OF LOVE FOR HIS FRIENDS AND THIS GREAT ONLINE ENVIRONMENT. FOR HIM, IT IS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE. ADMIRAL SPARKS, WE WANT TO THANK YOU AND SALUTE YOU SIR. BUT WE SHALL NOT MISS YOU DEARLY, FOR WE KNOW YOU WILL ALWAYS BE AROUND.

Admiral Paul DCNO-GNSF.

GNSF VICE ADMIRAL FISH RET

2009-02-25

VICE ADMIRAL FISH HAD A LONG AND SUCCESSFULL CAREER FOR OVER 8 YEARS. FORMER SEAWOLF, HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO BELIEVE IN GNSF AND FOLLOW US INTO OUR NEW ORDEAL. THIS FINE OFFICER WAS ALWAYS FIRST TO HELP AND WAS HEAVILY INVOLVED IN DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER. VICE ADMIRAL FISH WAS TWICE AWARDED THE CROIX DE GUERRE. ONE CAN STILL READ HIS PERTINENT COMMENTS AND EXPERT ADVICES ON DIFFERENT SUBSIM FORUMS WHERE HE WAS ALWAYS ACTIVE AND A GREAT GNSF REPRESENTATIVE.

Admiral Wallbanger CNO-GNSF.

GNSF RADM SWORDFISH RET

2011-07-18

JOINING GNSF ONLY A FEW MONTHS AFTER ITS INCEPTION, REAR ADMIRAL SWORDFISH WAS QUICK TO MAKE HIS MARK, THAT OF A FINE AND DEDICATED OFFICER. AN AVID DIVER, HE QUICKLY SET OUT ON A VOYAGE TO EXTEND GNSF’S COVERAGE OF SUBMARINE GAMES BY JOINING THE R&D TEAM. THAT, HOWEVER, WAS ONLY HIS STARTING POINT; HE SOON FOUND HIMSELF IN COMMAND OF TASK FORCE 73, WHERE HE SERVED WITH SUPREME DILIGENCE AND PAINSTAKING ATTENTION TO DETAIL FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS. NEVER ONE TO REST ON HIS LAURELS, RADM SWORDFISH CONTINUOUSLY SOUGHT TO EXPAND HIS AND GNSF’S HORIZONS BY EMBRACING GROUND AND AIR SIMS, QUIETLY CONTINUING HIS R&D WORK AND ALSO CREATING THE BRILLIANT SUBSNIP AND IRON BOMB COMPETITIONS FOR DANGEROUS WATERS AND FALCON 4 ALLIED FORCE RESPECTIVELY. THE FIRST OFFICER TO RECEIVE GNSF’S PRESTIGIOUS ‘OFFICER OF THE YEAR’ AWARD FOR 2006 AND THE ONLY TO BE HONOURED WITH A FIELD PROMOTION SO FAR (IN 2008, FROM CAPT TO RDML), RADM SWORDFISH WAS ALWAYS AROUND, PLAYING, HELPING OTHER MEMBERS WITH HIS WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE, DOING MUCH NECESSARY ADMINISTRATIVE WORK FOR GNSF AND, ABOVE ALL, SIMPLY BEING AN EXCEPTIONAL COMRADE. FOR ALL THAT, AND MUCH MORE WHICH CAN NOT BE EASILY PUT INTO WORDS, RADM SWORDFISH DESERVES A PLACE IN GNSF’S HALL OF FAME ALONG WITH OUR ETERNAL THANKS AND THE REASSURANCE THAT WE WILL ALWAYS BE HERE FOR HIM AS WELL.

ADM Paul DCNO-GNSF.

GNSF CAPTAIN WOLKKING RET

2009-04-26

CAPTAIN WOLFKING HAD A LONG AND SUCCESSFULL CAREER FOR OVER 8 YEARS. FORMER SEAWOLF AND MEMBER OF THE ELITE SUB KILLER GROUP K-9 (WOLFKING AND STERN), HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO BELIEVE IN GNSF AND FOLLOW US INTO OUR NEW ORDEAL. THIS FINE OFFICER WAS ALWAYS FIRST TO HELP AND WAS HEAVILY INVOLVED IN TRAINING THROUGHOUT HIS CARRER, ESPECIALLY WITH 688 PERISHER COURSE. CAPTAIN WOLFKING WAS AWARDED THE CROIX DE GUERRE FOR HIS WAR ACTIVITY. ONE COULD ALWAYS COUNT ON THE CAPTAIN TO BE AROUND TO HELP OUT ANY IN NEED.

FADM Stern GNSF.

GNSF CAPTAIN LARRYG RET

2006-10-13

THIS GNSF OFFICER RETIRED IN 2007 AFTER ONLY 3 YEARS OF SERVICE, BUT 3 YEARS OF COMPLETE DEDICATION TO BOTH SEAWOLVES AND THE GNSF ORGANIZATIONS. CAPTAIN LARRYG GAVE ALL HIS AVAILABLE ONLINE TIME TO HELP OUT AND, AS DIRECTOR OF PERSONNEL, ALWAYS ACCOMPLISHED HIS DUTIES, WITH NO REGARDS FOR AWARDS OR RANKS. HE LEFT WITH A HEAVY HEART, AND HE SHALL ALWAYS BE PART OF THE GNSF.

Admiral Wallbanger CNO-GNSF

GNSF CAPTAIN ALPHA RET

2009-06-08

BACK TO ACTIVE DUTY 2011-01-01

THIS GNSF OFFICER RETIRED IN 2009 AFTER 3 YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE TO GNSF, MAKING HIS MARK MAINLY AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY AS COMMANDANT. CAPTAIN ALPHA WAS ALWAYS THE FIRST TO HELP OUT AND READY TO TAKE ON ANY TASK REQUIRED BY THE CHAIN OF COMMAND. CAPTAIN ALPHA WAS A WARRIOR DECORATED WITH THE CROIX DE GUERRE. THIS FINE OFFICER WAS AN ASSET TO THE GNSF, WHERE HE WILL ALWAYS FIND A HOME. GOOD WINDS MY FRIEND!

Admiral Wallbanger CNO-GNSF

XO-73

GNSF CAPTAIN PAVD RET

2011-04-19

CAPTAIN PAVD HAS HAD A SUCCESSFULL CAREER SPANNING ALMOST 6 YEARS WITH US. A FORMER SEAWOLF AND AN OFFICER OF PROVEN CALIBRE, HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO COMMIT TO THE GNSF DURING IT'S FIRST DAYS BACK IN 2006. HE THEN VOLUNTEERED TO ACT AS PERSONNEL OFFICER AND WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE MAINTENANCE OF GNSF'S REECORDS DURING VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES THAT OUR WEBSITE ENDURED. HE THEN SERVED 15 MONTHS AS COMMANDER SEA SQUADRON, TASK FORCE 73 (CSS-73), BEFORE HIS EVENTUAL APPOINTMENT AS XO-73. DURING ALL THIS TIME HE SHOWED AN OUTSTANDING LEVEL OF PLAYING ACTIVITY ALONG WITH EXCEPTIONNEL PERFORMANCE IN DUTIES. HIS ATTENTION TO DETAILS WAS IMPRESSIVE. AND KNOWING HIM, I CAN SAY THAT ABOVE ANYTHING ELSE, IT STEMMED FROM A DEEP ENJOUYMENT OF THE GAME WE PLAY. A TRUE FRIEND TO MANY, ALWAYS POLITE, ALWAYS FAIR AND ALWAYS A GENTLEMEN, CAPTAIN PAVD HAS LEFT HIS OWN, UNIQUE MARK IN OUR COMMON ENDAVOR. WE WISH HIM THE BEST AND WILL ALWAYS BE HERE FOR HIM.

Admiral Paul DCNO-GNSF.

GNSF LIEUTENANT ROBBY637 RET

2007-10-16

THIS FINE OFFICER WAS FORCED TO RETIRE FOR MEDICAL REASONS IN 2007 AFTER A BRIEF BUT SUCCESSFULL CAREER. HIS LONG BATTLE WITH ILLNESS REFLECTS THIS MAN'S COURAGE, AS DOES HIS PERSONNEL RECORD. HE WAS ALWAY ON THE FIRST LINE WHEN IT CAME TO DEFEND THE GNSF COLORS. LIEUTENANT ROBBY637 LEFT BECAUSE THERE WAS NO OTHER SOLUTION, BUT WE ALL WISH HIM THE BEST AND MAYBE, SOMEDAY, A MIRACLE WILL ENABLE HIM TO BE BACK TO PLAY THE GAMES HE LOVED.

Admiral Wallbanger CNO-GNSF.