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12/26/2007 | If a USSVI Shipmate passes on, who do you notify?
The proper procedure for any USSVI member is to contact your base officers with the name and date of death, starting with the Base Commander (and base membership chairman, who will update the member r ... |
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12/26/2007 | USSVI Shipmate Tom Bowser receives Award from HNSA for USS Drum Preservation work.
It is with a great deal of pride that I am forwarding this message to you from the Mobile Bay Base.
On November 9, Shipmate Tom Bowser was presented the following plaque and citation from the His ... |
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12/26/2007 | Our USSVI Scholarship Program needs your support.
There is some confusion about the difference between two Submarine Related but different Scholarship Funds. The purpose of this message is to explain the differences.
From reports received, it is ...
Link: http://www.ussubvets.org/Documents/Scholarship_Application_Scholarship_Announcement_Call.pdf |
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12/26/2007 | St Marys Museum Receives WWII Submarine Reports
The St. Marys Submarine Museum recently received DVDs containing 63,000 pages of historical submarine patrol reports from World War II.
The DVDs were a gift to the museum from retired Vice Adm. Ro ...
Link: http://www.stmaryssubmuseum.com/ |
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12/26/2007 | Submarine Historical note
In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued an order for the Union forces to begin a blockade of all major Southern ports.
This set a chain of events in motion that would bring about advancements in ...
Link: http://www.hunley.org/ |
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12/26/2007 | An uncertain future for the Boomer Fleet?
Of the 18 Ohio-class nuclear ballistic missile submarines built from 1976-1997, all are still in service. Four of them have been removed from strategic service and have been converted to SSGN cruise m ...
Link: http://www.murdoconline.net/2007/ksil306.pdf |
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12/26/2007 | North Carolina crew starting to move aboard
Navy crew members have begun moving aboard the submarine North Carolina as it nears completion at Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard.
Last week, the crew ate steak and lobster as its first meal ... |
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12/26/2007 | Chinese Sub Pops Up Undetected in U.S. Navy Exercise
Recently, when a Chinese submarine popped up undetected in the middle of a Pacific Ocean exercise, dangerously close to the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, American military chiefs were left dumbfounded and re ...
Link: http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/3540 |