Alexandria, VA. - Arming submarines with nonnuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles will give America a necessary quick-strike weapon in the war on terror, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here yesterday.

The proposal, part of the Defense Department's 2007 budget request, aims to remove two nuclear missiles from each of the Navy's 14 ballistic missile submarines, or SSBNs, and replace them with two conventionally armed Trident missiles, said Navy Adm. Edmund P. Giambastiani at the Naval Submarine League's annual symposium.

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When was the last time you had a big helping of shit stew?
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I had some time to work on scanning more slides this weekend. Just curious, does anyone know who the Banjo player is here?

American Forces Press Service
Jim Garamone
March 02, 2006

Washington D.C. - Underneath a portrait of Czar Peter the Great, the Russian Ambassador to the United States presented two U.S. officers with the Order of Friendship for their parts in rescuing submariners trapped underwater off the Kamchatka peninsula in August.

Ambassador Yuri V. Ushakov presented the awards, the highest honor to non-Russian citizens, to Air Force Maj. Patrick Poon and Navy Lt. Cmdr. Steve Smith at the Russian Embassy here. Both men said it was due to the combined efforts of all on the team that seven Russian submariners survived their Priz AS-28 deep submergence submarine ordeal.

Joint Chiefs Chairman Marine Gen. Peter Pace and Undersecretary of State Robert Joseph attended the ceremony.

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VFW's National Council of Administration on October 9, 2005, approved membership eligibility for recipents of the SSBN Nuclear Deterrent Patrol Pins. Individuals must be permanently assigned to the unit or assigned temporary duty. The unit must operate under an alert posture for any period of time during the patrol. (VFW magizine Feb 2006)

I would like to start adding sites and information that relate to what our shipmates have been up to over the years so I made this new news catagory.

I just came across an interesting web site that Gary Mulford (Carver Blue Crew 79 - 81) is part of. The site is the web home of the Patcong Valley Model Railroaders.

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NOTE: If you have a web site, business, or event that you would to promote and your a former crew member please contact me.

A few things I am working on:

1. Get the ping button working again. (it was one of my fav's)
2. Get the Photo gallery back up.
3. Get the Crew notified that the site is back up again. There are two aspects of this, one is I have a newsletter script that will get the word out and two I need YOU to tell our friends and shipmates the site is back up. Can you help?

-Jim

Pacific Fleet Submarines Selected for Battle “E” Awards
Story Number: NNS060106-11
Release Date: 1/6/2006 4:16:00 PM

By Chief Journalist (SW/AW) David Rush, Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs

(PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII) (NNS) -- The winners of the 2005 Battle Efficiency Awards (Battle “E”) for the Pacific Fleet Submarine Force were announced Jan. 1, 2006.

Tonight we installed the latest upgrade patches and bug fixes to our site. The changes should be seamless to users. Most of the fixes addressed security issues in the back end of the site and minor bugs that were found in the past few weeks.

If you find something that does not work as you think it should, or you have any questions or comments please feel free to post a message in the Web Site Admin Forum.

Police in Colombia say they have found a half-built submarine in a warehouse in a suburb of the capital Bogota (2,250 metres (7,500 ft) above sea level,). Police chief General Luis Ernesto Gilibert said Russian documents were found alongside the partially-completed vessel.

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