Navy’s longest-serving sub heads into retirement

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Navy’s longest-serving sub heads into retirement

By:  Geoff Ziezulewicz     23 hours ago 



PUGET SOUND NAVAL SHIPYARD, Wash. ― When the Navy commissioned the fast-attack submarine Bremerton, Blondie’s “Rapture” topped the charts and “Dallas” ruled the TV ratings.

It was March 28, 1981, and President Ronald Reagan would survive an assassination attempt a few days later.

The old boat now sits at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, near her namesake Washington town, never to return to her Hawaiian home port.

Decommissioning and dismantlement are the final taskers for the Bremerton, the longest-serving submarine in Navy history.

It sailed more than a million miles underwater while the world above it changed, according to Cmdr. Travis Zettel, the boat’s commander.

The Bremerton sounded its first dive alert during the Cold War as the Soviet threat loomed. Later, its mission morphed to support counter-terrorism operations in the wake of 9/11.

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