Army Set to Approve USS Thresher Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery

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Army Set to Approve USS Thresher Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery
By: John Grady
January 31, 2019 10:05 AM

 

A memorial to the 129 men who lost their lives aboard submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) in 1963 will be dedicated this fall at Arlington National Cemetery, after a six-year campaign to win the Army’s approval for the project.

Kevin Galeaz, president of the USS Thresher Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Foundation, said, “we owe our lives to these guys.”

Thresher sank on April 10, 1963, about 220 miles off Cape Cod. The mishap began with a piping failure that the ship and the crew could not recover from. Speaking with USNI News by telephone, Galeaz said the sinking led the Navy to institute the SUBSAFE program to maintain quality assurance in submarine construction, and to design and build submarines to recover from unexpected flooding.

https://news.usni.org/2019/01/31/army-set-approve-uss-thresher-memorial-arlington-national-cemetery

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I don't understand. What does the army have to do with this?