The Navy's Most Shadowy Spy Is 450 Feet Long & Named After Jimmy Carter

[Spike]

Submarines are a lot like Batman, they are covered in rubber and are great fighters, but they are gadget toting stealth detectives at their core. Of the Navy’s sub force, there is no boat more capable at sleuthing under the high seas than the heavily modified Seawolf Class submarine, the USS Jimmy Carter SSN-23.

The 12,150 ton displacement USS Jimmy Carter, whose namesake qualified in Submarines during his pre-Presidential naval career, is one of only three Seawolf Class submarines ever built.

The Seawolfs are relics of the final stages of the Cold War and are the most lethal fast attack submarines ever created. The F-22 Raptors of the sea, they could dive incredibly deep, could haul along at speeds approaching 40 knots, and they were quieter than any other nuclear submarine on the planet. They were also armed with a cache of 50 weapons and wide 660mm torpedo tubes.

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ahoy

 

[DBS1970]

Jimmy Carter?

It will obviously be the most incompetent ship in the Navy till they name one after B-Rock.

 

[USDA#1]

Carter long dreamed of attending the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. Meanwhile he enrolled at Georgia Southwestern College in nearby Americus. After taking additional mathematics courses at Georgia Tech, he was finally admitted to the Naval Academy in 1943. With his short, slim stature, Carter barely met the minimum physical requirements for entry. He was a good student but was seen as reserved and quiet, in contrast with the academy's aggressive hazing culture. While at the academy he fell for Ruth's friend Rosalynn Smith, whom he would marry shortly after graduation in 1946.[4] Carter graduated 59th out of 820 midshipmen, by his own recollection.[5] From 1946 to 1953, Carter and Rosalynn lived temporarily in Virginia, Hawaii, Connecticut, and California, as he served deployments in the Atlantic and Pacific fleets.[6] Promoted to a full lieutenant, he completed qualification for command of a diesel-electric submarine. He applied for the US Navy's fledgling nuclear submarine program run by then Captain Hyman G. Rickover, which he began in late 1952. Rickover's demands on his men and machines were legendary, and Carter later said that, next to his parents, Rickover had the greatest influence on him.[5]

On December 12, 1952, an accident with the experimental NRX reactor at Atomic Energy of Canada's Chalk River Laboratories caused a partial meltdown. The resulting explosion caused millions of liters of radioactive water to flood the reactor building's basement, and the reactor's core was no longer usable.[7] Carter was ordered to Chalk River, joining other American and Canadian service personnel. He was the officer in charge of the U.S. team assisting in the shutdown of the Chalk River Nuclear Reactor.[8] The painstaking process required each team member, including Carter, to don protective gear, and be lowered individually into the reactor to disassemble it for minutes at a time.


more than can be said for any other dickweed since '63.

 

[DBS1970]

None of that changes the fact that Jimmy Earl was the worst most inept President of the post WWII era until B-Rock came along. Nixon and Ford both served as officers in the navy. Nixon on staff and Ford as a ships officer on carriers.
George H. W. Bush is still the youngest person ever to earn the qualification of Naval Aviator. He flew torpedo bombers in the Pacific and was shot down and recovered by a Submarine. I'd say he did pretty well.

 

[Spike]

 

[USDA#1]

forgot about Bush 41.

Nixon was rear echelon ************ that sold sandwiches on an r and r island.

 

[Coach]

400 foot long sub? That's monstrous. Looks to be about 40 feet high too.

 

[Ironcitysteelers]

Looks like a BBC with stickers.