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FLIGHT International. 7 November 1963 755 the long deterrent patrols, with the off-duty crew enjoying scheduled leave periods and employed in refresher training (see next section) prior to redeployment. The Blue crew is usually the first to be chosen while a submarine is being built, but both crews have precisely the same status. Training The average pre-commissioning training period of FBM personnel is 16 to 19 months. Of this period, about nine months are devoted to formal study at the US Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia. After pre-training in transis tor theory, digital-computing theory, Boolean logic and electronic circuitry, FBM personnel receive intensive and extensive equipment and systems maintenance training. Refresher training facilities are provided to personnel of the operating fleet in the home ports of the various SSNB Squadrons. Supporting Facilities These include missile testing sites, a missile assembly facility, Naval shipyards, submarine tenders, an experi mental test firing ship and navigational test ship. Chief testing site is the Atlantic Missile Range, Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Navy complex includes launching pads, a missile assembly building, missile checkout building and associated supply and maintenance buildings and shops. USS Observation Island (EAG 154), the experimental missile test firing ship, is based at Above, SSBN 6// USS "John Marshall," last of the "Ethan Allen" class, running gently on the surface of a calm sea. On the right is a photograph taken inside SSBN 602 USS "Abraham Lincoln," showing navigation technicians of her crew checking one of the SINS Launching Polaris missiles are launched by an air-ejection system, which forces the missile from its launching tube and propels it up through the water to the surface. At that point the rocket motor ignites and sends the missile on its way. The system takes advantage of the reliability #ind instantaneous ignition characteristics of solid- propellant fuel used in the missile. The result is increased safety for submarine and crew. Each launching tube has its own air supply, and is independent of the other 15 tubes. Vital parts of each missile are accessible for inspection and maintenance even when loaded in the launching tubes and while the submarine is underway at sea. One disadvantage of this system is the bulk of the air accumulators, and the potential hazard posed by the stored energy. During recent weeks successful trials have been held of a new launch method utilizing steam pressure generated by flooding the launch tube and then firing into it a charge of solid fuel. Personnel Each FBM submarine has two crews, called Blue and Gold, each of about 130 men and officers. The crews alternate on FLEET BALLISTIC MISSILE SUBMARINES SSB No 598 599 600 601 602 608 609 610 611 616 617 618 619 620 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 634 635 636 Name George Washington Patrick Henry Theodore Roosevelt Robert E. Lee Abraham Lincoln Ethan Allen Sam Houston Thomas A. Edison John Marshall Lafayette Alexander Hamilton Thomas Jefferson Andrew Jackson John Adams James Monroe Nathan Hale Woodrow Wilson Henry Clay Daniel Webster Madison Tecumseh Daniel Boone John C. Calhoun Ulysses S. Grant Von Steuben Casimir Pulaski Stonewall Jackson Sam Rayburn Nathanial Greene Yard EB EB Ml NN PNS EB NN EB NN EB EB NN Ml PNS NN EB Ml NN EB NN EB Ml NN EB NN EB Ml NN PNS Keel laid 1.11.57 27.5.58 20.5.58 25.8.58 1.11.58 14.9.59 28.12.59 15.3.60 4.4.60 17.1.61 26.6.61 3.2.61 26.4.61 19.5.61 31.7.61 2.10.61 13.9.61 3.10.61 28.12.61 S.5.62 1.6.62 6.2.62 4.6.62 18.8.62 4.9.62 12.1.63 4.7.62 3.12.62 21.5.62 Launch 9.6.59 22.9.59 3.10.59 18.12.59 14.5.60 22.11.60 2.2.61 15.6.61 15.7.61 8.5.62 18.8.62 24.2.62 15.9.62 12.1.63 4.8.62 12.1.63 30.11.62 27.4.63 15.3.62 — _ _ — — — — ~~ Comm'd 30.12.59 9.4.60 13.2.61 16.9.60 i 1.3.61 8.8.61 8.3.62 10.3.62 21.5.62 23.4.63 — 4.1.63 — — — — — — — _ — — — — — — First patrol 15.11.60 30.12.60 19.7.61 2.5.61 28.8.61 26.6.62 10.10.62 7.11.62 31.12.62 — — —.10.63 — — — — — — — _ — — — — — — — — ~ CO (Blue) Cdr E. W. Cooke Cdr F. D. McMullen, Jr Cdr F. W. Graham CdrC. H. Griffiths Cdr W. M. Douglass Capt P. L. Lacy, Jr Capt W. P. Willis Capt C. M. Young Cdr R. W. Stecher Cdr P. Hannifin Cdr N. B. Bcssac Capt L. H. Rathbun Cdr A. J. Whittle Capt L. W. Zech, Jr Cdr W. H. Sandeford Cdr J. W. Russel Cdr C. N. Mitchell, Jr Cdr T. A. Bryce Cdr M. S. Blair Cdr J. L. Skoog. Jr Cdr A. B. Taylor Cdr G. P. Steele II Cdr D. L. Axene Capt J. L. From, Jr Cdr J. P. Wise Capt R. L. J. Long Cdr J. H. Nicholson Capt O. H. Perry, Jr CO (Cold) Capt D. P. Brooke Capt S. D. Cramer, Jr Cdr H. Bucknell III Cdr J. Williams, Jr Cdr D. M. Miller Cdr C. Dew, Jr Cdr J. H. Hawkins Cdr W. Dedrick Cdr R. D. Donavan Cdr J. T. Strong Cdr B. F. Sherman, Jr Cdr C. Priest, Jr Cdr J. B. Wilson Cdr P. J. Early Crd W. R. Cobean Cdr S. S. Ellis Cdr W. N. Dietien, Jr Cdr J. C. Lewis Cdr M. S. Smith, Jr Cdr J. D. Kearny Cdr C. S. Carlisle II Cdr A. B. Crabtree Cdr C. A. K. McDonald Cdr J. C. Metiel Cdr T. B. Brittain fiscal Year 63 contracts let: SSBN 640 (EB), 641 (NN), 642 (Ml), 643 (EB), 644 (NN) and 645 (EB); also, purchase of long-lead items for six additional SSBN, not yet numbered.
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