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This seems to be falling into the teaser category. More to follow?

Oops, you are right. The actual factoid I was looking for was "Nuclear Attack Sub" not Seawolf class.

Sweet... I've always been under the impression Carter served on nuclear subs. Andy is not disputing that correct?

And, that is 'nu-ku-ler'. 'nu-ku-ler'.

jimmy carteris the best president ever

Andy word from Rothbard about all this, he served on a very special "nucular" sub and was a nuke engineer (I think). Roth?

What's this become some right wing conspiracy site? All of these postings containing bogus info on Jimmy Carter. I was thinking when I first saw this post that the Bush group must be sick they have to commission a world class boat named after a Democrat – and what do I see… post after post seems filled with disinformation. Coincidence??
FWIW I've always been a huge fan of Carter. I think he is a good example of how a decent man will never make a good President. I just finished reading his last book The Hornet’s Nest about the Revolutionary War from the southern states perspective. Interesting Read.

Carter is a scumbag, his presidency was a shambles, and he doesn't deserve to have a trash barge named after him

Mr. Carter served for ten years on Active Duty, but not much of it was spent in submarines. Most of his career was spent going to Schools or teaching. He entered the Naval Academy in 1943, and graduated in 1947. He was assigned to the ancient battleship WYOMING, then a training ship. When it was decomissioned, he went to another old battleship, the USS MISSISSIPPI, coverted to a Guided Missile test ship. (He was the ship's Education Officer, helping sailors get high school equivalency diplomas and study for promotion exams.)

From there he volunteered for the submarine force, which began with
six months of training. Then he made one cruise on the diesel engined
sub USS POMFRET, before it too, was assigned to training duties. He
then went to the pre-Commissioning detail for the USS K-1. This was a
unsuccesful class of diesel engined coastal submarines. He did, however, pass the Submarine Commander course.

From there he was accepted to the US Navy's new Nuclear Power Program, under ADM Hyman Rickover. Carter was then assigned to study Nuclear Reactor and Propulsion Engineering. His next assignment was set up a training course for enlisted men going to the second US Navy nuclear sub, the unsuccessful USS SEAWOLF (SSN 573). But then his father died and he requested permission to return to Plains, GA, to run the family
business. He received an Honorable Discharge in 1953.

Incidently submarines named SEAWOLF have had a chequered history. The
first was wrecked after a fire off the California coast in 1920, with the death of her Captain and three sailors. The second SEAWOLF served well in WW 2, only to be sunk by US anti-submarine forces in the Pacific in 1944.(One of two US subs lost to friendly forces in WW2, the Army Air Forces got the other one in the Atlantic.) The third, the nuclear one, never really worked out, she was kind of an Edsel of a submarine. The fourth is the lead ship of the newest class of attack subs, of which CARTER is the third and last.

According to the word aboard the boat Carter served her. The boat equalled the number of surfaces to dives in troubled times. In the last third of the century just past this old lady became very important to the existance of a lot of these Poindexters throwing rocks at a great little feeder. Seawolf, unlike the boats of today had a big ocean full of Soviet Alpha boats that really wanted to slug it out.