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  2. USS Jimmy Carter - Wikipedia

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    USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) is the third and final Seawolf-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine in the United States Navy. Commissioned in 2005, she is named for the 39th president of the United States , Jimmy Carter , the only president to have qualified on submarines. [ 7 ]

  3. Seawolf-class submarine - Wikipedia

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    The Seawolf class cost about $3 billion per unit ($3.5 billion for USS Jimmy Carter), making it the most expensive United States Navy fast attack submarine and second most expensive submarine ever, after the French Triomphant-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines.

  4. USS Barracuda (SSK-1) - Wikipedia

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    USS Barracuda (SSK-1/SST-3/SS-550) (originally USS K-1 (SSK-1)), the lead ship of her class, was a submarine that was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the barracuda, a voracious, pike-like fish.

  5. Jimmy Carter - Wikipedia

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    In 2013, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, their son Chip, and their daughter-in-law Becky traveled to the neighborhood of Queens Village in New York City. They worked on five housing construction projects with Habitat for Humanity. [470] In 2013, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter traveled to Mongolia. Jimmy wanted to learn about the culture of the local people.

  6. Submarines in the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    Until 2014, submarine watchkeeping had an 18-hour day, as opposed to a standard 24-hour schedule. Sailors spent 6 hours on watch, 6 hours maintenance and training and 6 hours off (3 watches of 6 hours.) [24] In 2014, the Navy began transitioning the fleet to a 24-hour schedule. [25] The submarine force has always been a small fraction of the ...

  7. Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay - Wikipedia

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    In January 1976, the negotiators initialed a draft treaty between Spain and the United States. It called for withdrawal of the submarine squadron from Rota by July 1979. The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty in June 1976. After review, Kings Bay was selected in November 1976, shortly after the election of Georgian Jimmy Carter as President. Soon ...

  8. List of U.S. military vessels named after presidents - Wikipedia

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    Carter (left) with a replica of the USS Jimmy Carter with Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton (right) at a naming ceremony, April 28, 1998. Jimmy Carter has the following vessels named for him; USS Jimmy Carter was named in 2004; Jimmy Carter was the only living president with a submarine named for him Seawolf-class submarine

  9. USS Seawolf (SSN-575) - Wikipedia

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    Seawolf was the same basic "double hull" twin-screw submarine design as her predecessor USS Nautilus (SSN-571), but her propulsion system was more technologically advanced. The Submarine Intermediate Reactor (SIR) nuclear plant was designed by General Electric's Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and prototyped in West Milton, New York.