US Navy duty stations - picture gallery

[Snowbelt Spyder]

That was the USS Nathanael Greene SSBN-636, one of the Freedom 41 nuclear-powered ballistic missile armed submarines. They were designed, built and operated to act as a deterrent to Soviet aggression in the early years of the Cold War. You must be proud to have served on her.

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Thank you, I am. You know the saying - two types of ships in the Navy....submarines and targets. Although subs are referred to as boats, not ships. Amazing how many nuclear warheads we and the Russians had pointing at each other not that many years ago.