Welcome to Bugara.net
This site is for all shipmates, khaki or dungaree, that had the pleasure of sailing on the USS Bugara, SS-331.
2012 Norfolk, VA Reunion
The Bugara will be doing a joint reunion with the USS Scorpion SS 278/SSN 589 and USS George Washington SSBN 598 at the Sheraton Waterfront Hotel in Norfolk, VA, on Sept 4-9, 2012. Download the registration form here if you are interested in attending!
Race for the Pacific Supports the Dolphin Scholarship Foundation
 “WE” the USS BUGARA are on the the board for donating to the Dolphin Scholarship Foundation. The monies donated came from our reunion in October 2011 in Columbus, Indiana. Read the thank you letter and visit the website to see who else is participating!
UPDATE: The Race for the Pacific raised over $24,000 for Navy Families! See the final tallies - the Bug placed seventh for submarines!
Hope you all (and your families) have a wonderful holiday season and are blessed with good health for the coming years.
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Thanks to the generosity of Officers and Men of the Bugara, the website, Bugara.net, has been renewed and will be up into 2014. The photo hosting site has been renewed also and will be available into 2012.
Not only that, but we have enough funds to make a donation of $275.00 to the Dolphin Scholarship Fund, on behalf of all former BUGARA sailors. Read the thank you letter from the Dolphin Scholarship Fund
Thank you for your support and generosity! |
If you are interested in posting pictures to the Bugara Pictures section (hosted on Flickr), contact the webmaster for access instructions.
We Are Submarine Sailors
We are not the first of them and we will not be the last. Our heritage runs back to the first submarine. This heritage line continues forward into an unseen future. Each generation is trained by the one before. This will remain so until there is no more use for submarines, which will be never.
If one of us goes aboard a new or old submarine, we are comfortable with the men there. For they are us and we are them. Stand us in a line in all our dress uniforms or naked in our coffins, we are the same. We are and forever will be submarine sailors. We are one.
We can have everything taken from us, uniforms, medals, our sanity and our lives, but we will always be recognized by others and ourselves as a submariner. This status cannot be removed from us. Our Dolphins worn on our chests then, hung on our walls now, or later pinned on moldering uniforms in our graves mark us forever. We are first, last, and always men that stepped forward and worked long and hard to become what we are. We are unique among sailors for we sail down deep into dark and always dangerous waters. We do this not with foolhardy go-to-hell bravery, but with cool calculation and care. We challenge the dangers with training and practice. We know that the time for bravery will come when two shipmates close themselves in a flooding compartment, knowing that the whole boat and crew depends on them to control the flooding.
We believe in each other, because we must. Alone at sea, the crew and a pressure hull are all we have to reach the surface again. Men with confidence in each other dive and surface submarines countless times. Each man trained by others holds the lives of those shipmates in his hands. Dolphins are the symbol of this tradition.
Submarine hulls have numbers and men have hearts and souls. We carry those numbers in our hearts in life, and they mark our souls in death. Silver or Gold, Dolphins are the symbol of this.
To us Dolphins are it, no other symbol matters or means anything as important as they do.
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