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Made the Cover of Undersea Warfare Magazine!  You guys Rock!

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Welcome to the refresh of the main content site. If you’re looking for the older links, they are still there. I did notice that there were lots of broken links, and I’ve fixed much of the site in that way. I still have quite a bit that I plan on incorporating, but this site really can’t be anything without your help. (ie crew/former crew).

Some of the features of the website are:

• A full fledge log in Message Board. It is powered by phpBB. Shoot me an email and I’ll upgrade your account quickly to access the entire board.
• A Wiki. What’s a wiki? Well think Wikipedia, that online encyclopedia. You can add content to the site without needing any log on what so ever. Give it a try.
• The main site, it’s powered by WordPress. If you want to contribute, get a log-on for the main site and we’ll get you going, so you can add content as well.
• I plan on adding a web-gallery type program to the site so people can add pictures from their submarine experience if they so desire.

If you send feedback, please make sure that you put USSHMJ.org in the subject line so it doesn’t get marked as SPAM. Thanks.

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In the last century, men of valor answered the call! They defended freedom, when freedom needed defending! Henry M. Jackson answered that call. Senator Jackson served during WWII as an Enlisted Man in the US Army, and throughout his life continued to do so through vigilant public service. Henry M. Jackson served on Capitol Hill for 42 years, the last 31 of which he spent in the Senate. As a dominant member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, he led an important faction within the Democratic party in his support of a more aggressive role in world affairs. Senator Jackson was a strong proponent of the TRIDENT submarine program, a watchdog over U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations, and a critic of SALT. Held in the ship’s library and dating back to 1955 is a set of point papers, newspaper articles, and speeches which give clear testimony to his firm commitment to rapid development of nuclear submarines and the POLARIS program (vessels which he often called “underwater satellites”); a greatly expanded attack submarine program to counter a rapidly growing Soviet fleet; emphasis upon arctic operations; and most recently, the TRIDENT program. In 1959, after riding the USS SKIPJACK (SSN 585) at sea with (then) VADM Rickover, Senator Jackson called for the establishment of a Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Undersea Warfare because he believed submarines were “lost in a welter of naval bureaucracy.”          Â