Still one of the best stories I HAVE EVER READ...
thank you for this and peace  love and hope you have a happy life
thank you  Rone Welles  XO XO

 Still a super well written story ... the second time has not changed my opinion ... well done  ..... the second chapter should  
have our heroine getting a phd  and joining the spy bussness with the adm and his staff finely catching the bad guys and some suprize others that they did not know about .....

please  keep up the good work we enjoy  the work of your magic fingers....   peace rone

A submarine is referred to as a Boat.  Submariners are insistent on the matter.  The senior petty officer aboard a sub is referred to as 'master chief petty officer of the boat' or simply 'Chief of the boa't.  If you call it a ship, they WILL be offended.  And the gold Dolphins pin is referred to as 'sub-qual'.  Also, a nuke officer, has to go thru Navy Nuclear Power School, and it is a pretty big deal, takes a long time, and is considered a rather difficult achievement.  (Just so you know.)  You have to learn to recognize every valve in the steam plant and the reactor plant manual, describe its location, whether it is normally open or closed, and the same detail on the Rod Control mechanisms.  So the likelihood of some one in the shipyard smuggling something in that had no place in a sub, is vanishingly small, as EVERYONE ( ETs, MMs, ICs, and officers) down there is capable of seeing and recognizing what belongs there.  They know it like the back of there hands, in the dark, and in stark terror.

Futher, two crews DIED because they refused to operate outside the parameters of the RPM (reactor plant manual, a multi-volume document)

So it would be impossible for a Nuke to be operated as you have specified. Scramming a reactor is simply a matter of cutting power to the rod control mechanism, and SPRINGS drive the rods into the reactor.  It can't make more power than expected.  

I fell in love with Elaine. Now let her go after the doctor that "programmed" her to be a "WET DREAM" ,Have the doctor "perfecting a "transgender" bomb to deploy over american Servive men, but fails uterly on Elaine and lets her create her Male Self out of spare parts. then turn te doctor into a nurse. Then Elaine, now a woman wanting a man can marry Alaine

GREAT STORY    ,,,, LOVED THE CONCEPT AND WAY IT WAS WRITTEN ,,,
CHAPTER 2 SHOULD SHOW HER CATCHING THE TOP BAD GUY AND SOME OTHER BAD GUYS THAT ARE A SUPRISE TO THE BRASS,,,,KEEP UP THE GREAT WRITING WE NEED STORIES LIKE THIS ..GOOD CLEAN FUN AND EXCITING..

THANK YOU  THANK YOU  RONE

Just read "A Change of Orders"---loved it.  Please consider writing a sequel.  There are several unfinished threads that I would love to see brought together.  Her relationship with Chris and getting the head of the bad guys that tried to blow up his ship.  Please keep writing, you are great at it.

This is a great story, with a lot of opportunity for sequels.  Elaine is a fabulous character, and I hope some day that you'll bring her back to us in a new adventure!  Thanks.

Enjoyed your story.  Are you planning a sequel ( Hope Hope )?
I really enjoy your perspective of the way the heroine looks at life.  Live long and prosper ( I love that one ).

Hey Tigger,

really enjoyed this, what I particularly liked was how you had a transformation here where being physical, and strong, and powerful were not considered particularly un-womanly characteristics, which of course they aren't. Wayyyy too many stories in this genre do that, which puts me off them no-end.
Further, I also liked how you maintained Elaine's preference for women, as again many writers seem to think that being with a man, or wanting one, is the ultimate experience of being a woman. As a dyke, I kinda take exception to that in a big way and its really awesome to see a story where this is not the case.
Thanks :)

Zoe