The rest of patrol 13 was a pretty quiet affair that ended with Dave cleaning the engine room and hanging out in Control. When the Patrol is over and the ship heads out to sea with the Blue Crew, Dave loses contact with the crew for many, many years. 

After leaving Michigan, Dave heads to Virginia Beach for POSEIDON C School and the summer in one of Americas great vacation spots. But the future is cloudy. What happens next will seem at first like a typical Navy screw-over, but the reality is that if it hadn’t happened, Dave wouldn’t be where he is today…