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Carters visit sub base, to join dive
Florida Times-Union ^ | August 11, 2005 | GORDON JACKSON

Posted on 08/11/2005 3:26:02 PM PDT by kingattax

The USS Jimmy Carter will depart Kings Bay with former president, wife today ---

ST. MARYS -- The USS Jimmy Carter is scheduled to depart from its first visit to Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base today, after picking up two temporary crew members: the boat's namesake, Jimmy Carter, and his wife, Rosalynn.

The former president and first lady are scheduled for an overnight dive on the Navy's third and final Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine. This will be the first dive for the former governor of Georgia since his Navy career ended in 1953, and the first dive ever for his wife.

Carter's visit marks the first time he has visited Kings Bay. He was president in 1978 when the seldom-used Army depot was officially designated as a submarine base.

The Navy said details of the Carters' visit are being withheld for security reasons. Officials planned to give the couple a full tour of the base before they depart today on their overnight dive.

After his return, Carter plans to hold a news conference Friday to answer questions about his first sub dive in more than 50 years. The event is not open to the public.

(Excerpt) Read more at jacksonville.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dopeanutsfloat; jimmycarter; submarine; usn; ussjimmycarter
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To: al baby

LOL..thar she blows ! perfect !


21 posted on 08/11/2005 4:24:04 PM PDT by kingattax
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To: Coop

Why does that mope still have a security clearance?


22 posted on 08/11/2005 4:27:18 PM PDT by Thebaddog (How's yer dawgs?)
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To: kingattax
This will be the first dive for the former governor of Georgia since his Navy career ended in 1953, and the first dive ever for his wife.

She's the driver?

23 posted on 08/11/2005 4:28:52 PM PDT by Thebaddog (How's yer dawgs?)
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To: Thebaddog

This will be the first dive for the former governor of Georgia since his Navy career ended in 1953, and the first dive ever for his wife.
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And they let this anti-American POS, another shining example of what happens when you put a SOCIALIST in the White House (SNAFU), get near our military....makes me ill.


24 posted on 08/11/2005 4:37:30 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

Makes YOU ill? Imagine the sub's crew! ;-)


25 posted on 08/11/2005 4:47:33 PM PDT by Coop (www.heroesandtraitors.org)
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To: kingattax

Carter is a disgrace to the Naval Academy. If he had any character at all, he would confess that he has broken faith with the Brigade of Mishsipmen, and return his diploma---and the cost of his education at USNA.


26 posted on 08/11/2005 5:01:40 PM PDT by good1 (Hurry to meet death, lest another comes and takes your place.)
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To: kingattax

"This will be the first dive for the former governor of Georgia since his Navy career ended in 1953."
He went to sea on a 688 CL boat in 1977 or 1978 along with ADM Rickover. He also visited a boat in 1979 or 1980 but I don't think he went to sea that time.


27 posted on 08/11/2005 5:05:26 PM PDT by Whispering Smith
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To: EagleUSA

Do you think he was a rat when he ran the sub or was it some rebirth required to be a democrat?


28 posted on 08/11/2005 5:22:00 PM PDT by Thebaddog (How's yer dawgs?)
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To: Thebaddog
Why does that mope still have a security clearance?

If the entire Clinton crime syndicate has 'em, why not?

29 posted on 08/11/2005 5:27:03 PM PDT by Coop (www.heroesandtraitors.org)
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To: kingattax
After his return, Carter plans to hold a news conference Friday to answer questions about his first sub dive in more than 50 years

see any attacking rabbits, Mr Carter?

30 posted on 08/11/2005 7:57:06 PM PDT by lunarbicep (Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others - Churchill)
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To: kingattax
Although the sub has a lousy name, Popular Science had an article on changes that have been made to the sub. It's now a high-tech spy sub, with all kinds of awesome abilities like a 'garage' for submersibles and diver egress, fold-out electric props that allow the sub to turn on it's length and drift silently, high-tech sonar... Really cool what they did to her.

Here's a LINK to a diagram, the article was in the last few issues of this year.

31 posted on 08/11/2005 11:59:17 PM PDT by yhwhsman ("Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small..." -Sir Winston Churchill)
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