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Newsletter of Charleston Base, United = States=20 Submarine Veterans,=20 Inc.

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&nbs= p; = ; = =20 USSVI=20 Creed

=93To=20 perpetuate the memory of our shipmates who gave their lives
in = the=20 pursuit of their duties while serving their country. That their dedication, = deeds, and=20 supreme sacrifice be a constant source of motivation toward = greater=20 accomplishments. = Pledge=20 loyalty and patriotism to the United States = Government=94

Base web = page: = http://www.ussvicb.org/

National web = page: www.ussvi.org

Base = Meeting:=20

October 9,=20 2008

Social hour = 1800,=20 General Meeting 1900

Location:

Fleet = Reserve=20 Association Branch 269, Low Country Home

99 Wisteria=20 Rd.

Goose Creek, = South=20 Carolina. Phone=20 843-569-2962

Base=20 Officers

Phone=20 Number

Commander

Steve=20 Nelms

843-563-7115

Vice=20 Commander

Carl=20 Chinn

843-875-3098

Secretary

Rick=20 Collins

843-851-3490

Treasurer

George = Lisle

843-559-4242

Special=20 Officers

Phone=20 Number

Chief = of the=20 Boat

Marty=20 Sessler

843-871-1536

Public = Affairs

Richard=20 Cleeve

843-899-4563

Sub = Vets=20 WWII

Barnwell=20 Chaplin

843-762-6945

Nuclear=20 Historian

Rick=20 Carlson

843-875-4030

Veterans=20 Affairs

Jim=20 Morrison

843-832-9716

Chaplain

John=20 Nichols

843-873-5897

Membership

Carl=20 Chinn

843-875-3098

Holland=20 Club

Terry=20 Trump

843-873-9563

Little = David=20 Project

Rick=20 Wise

843-875-5559

Roving = Reporter

Rick=20 Wise

843-875-5559

Scholarship

Jim=20 Yates

843-873-0246

Newsletter

Carl=20 Chinn

843-875-3098

Storekeeper

Paul=20 Viering

843-797-2623

Alcohol &=20 Gaming

Dave=20 Mueller

843-553-2775

Webmaster

Nick=20 Nichols

843-873-5897

Minutes=20 of the September 2008 meeting

Opening = Ceremony: Acting Base Commander = called the=20 meeting to order. A = Quorum=20 was present and the meeting was commenced at 1900.

Introductions: New people were = introduced; Michael Karriker, Alvin Hanson, = and=20 Vincent Dustin. =20 Welcome aboard.

Secretary: Secretary Rick Collins = asked for a=20 motion to approve the meeting minutes from last month. A motion was made and=20 seconded. Minutes=20 approved.

Ben Heber as he=20 undergoes treatment for his cancer. Ben Heber is at home while = undergoing=20 radiation and chemo treatments. His cancer is isolated to the area = on his=20 neck. He has lost about 35 pounds but is in good=20 spirits.

Curly=20 Houck. Curly is = at home and=20 taking medication but his cancer is = inoperable.

George=20 Wells=20 who is undergoing treatment for his lung cancer=20 return.

Donna=20 Moore=20 on the death of her husband, John, who rode the GRANT Blue. He was = not a=20 member of SUBVETS.

Clyde=20 Peters. Everything = went well=20 in Atlanta. They changed some of his medication and he is on the = list to=20 have the operation. He has to go back again in a month but they = are going=20 to do the operation probably by the first of the=20 year.

Several=20 follow-ups were made on those who=92ve had surgery or illnesses in = the last=20 couple of months along with the base sending additional=20 cards.

If you know = of=20 shipmates or spouses from other bases who are having a difficult = time, had=20 surgery, etc. and would like for USSVI Charleston Base to send = them a card=20 please send their name and address to the Chaplain via email or = phone=20 call.

Barney = Chaplin is out=20 of the hospital. He has a malignant tumor between the rib cage and = spinal=20 cord. The good news is that it can be = treated.

Ben Heber = has cancer=20 and will begin chemo and radiation treatments beginning Monday, = August=20 18^th.

Several = follow-ups=20 were made on those who=92ve had surgery or illnesses in the last = couple of=20 months along with the base sending additional = cards.

NR-1 = Inactivation=20 Ceremony, Reunion November 21

The = Inactivation=20 Ceremony for Submarine NR-1 will be held in conjunction with a = crew=20 reunion on November 21, 2008, at Submarine Base, Groton,=20 Conn.

Questions or = contact=20 information can be forwarded to EMC(SS) Roy Hoagland at nr1reunion@nr1.navy.mil You can also call Chief = Hoagland=20 at 860-271-6582 for more information.

Admiral Osborne Scholarship = Fund

How=20 about helping out the scholarship fund? We are offering a = Charleston Base=20 Challenge Coin for sale. = ALL=20 proceeds go into the scholarship fund.

Coins only cost = $7=20 each. Available for = an=20 additional $1 is a protective plastic capsule.

To=20 get your coin(s) see Jim Yates, Julian Villegas or Carl Chinn.

Make=20 sure you have one for =93when you get challenged=94!

Buy=20 several for great gifts!

Russia Successfully Test = Fired The=20 =94Bulava=94

Barents = Observer,=20 September 19, 2008

The=20 Russian Navy yesterday successfully test fired a =94Bulava-M=94 = missile from a=20 submarine in the Barents Sea. Navy officials now confirm that the = missile=20 next year will be installed at the country=92s first = fourth-generation=20 submarine, the =93Yuri Dolgorukii=94.

Meanwhile, Navy = officials=20 say that the =93Yuri Dolgorukii=94, a 955 =93Borey=94 class = vessel, is undergoing=20 test sailing outside Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast.

The=20 launch made from the =93Dmitrii Donskoy=94, the Navy=92s recently = modernized=20 Typhoon submarine, took place in the Barents Sea. The missile = successfully=20 hit its target at Kamchatka.

The=20 successful launch allows me to say with big certainty that the = complex=20 will be applied in the Armed Forces, a high-ranking military = official told=20 RIA Novosti. However, more test launches will be necessary, also = from the=20 =93Yuri Dolgorukii=94, he adds.

The=20 =93Bulava=94 missile has previously undergone seven test launches, = of which=20 the last three have been unsuccessful. The missile=92s application = in the=20 Armed Forces has several times been postponed.

The=20 new =93Yuri Dolgorukii=94 will together with the =93Bulava-M=94 = missile, be=20 Russia=92s state of the art military hardware. The vessel has an = estimated=20 price tag of 23 billion RUB (600 million EUR).

Russian Navy To Adopt New = Bulava=20 Ballistic Missile In 2009

RIA=20 Novosti, September 19, 2008

MOSCOW =96 = Russia will=20 adopt new Bulava-M submarine-based ballistic missiles for service = with the=20 Navy and commission the first Borey-class strategic nuclear = submarine in=20 2009, a senior Navy official said on Friday.

The=20 Navy on Thursday conducted a scheduled launch of the Bulava = missile from=20 the submerged Dmitry Donskoi, a Typhoon-class ballistic missile = nuclear=20 submarine, in northern Russia's White Sea, and the missile reached = its=20 target at the Kura testing grounds on the Kamchatka Peninsula, = about 6,700=20 kilometers (4,200 miles) east of Moscow.

"The=20 successful launch of the ballistic missile allows us to assert = with=20 certainty that both the Bulava missile and the Yury Dolgoruky = submarine=20 will be put into service in 2009," the official said.

The=20 Bulava (SS-NX-30), developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal=20 Technology, is designed for deployment on Borey-class Project 955=20 nuclear-powered submarines.

The=20 first submarine in the series, the Yury Dolgoruky, was built at = the=20 Sevmash plant in the northern Arkhangelsk Region and is currently=20 undergoing sea trials.

The=20 submarine has a length of 170 meters (580 feet), a body diameter = of around=20 13 meters (42 feet), and a submerged speed of about 29 knots.

It=20 will be equipped with 16 Bulava ballistic missiles, each carrying = up to 10=20 nuclear warheads and having a range of 8,000 kilometers (5,000 = miles).=20

Two=20 other Borey-class nuclear submarines, the Alexander Nevsky and the = Vladimir Monomakh, are currently under construction at the Sevmash = plant.=20

Fourth-generation=20 Borey-class nuclear-powered submarines armed with Bulava missiles = will=20 form the core of Russia's fleet of modern strategic submarines. =

Russia plans to = build at=20 least seven $890-million submarines of this class by 2015.

Navy Shows Off Unmanned=20 Submarine-Detecting Craft

The = Remote-Controlled=20 Boats Are Designed To Detect Quiet-Diesel Submarines. Officials = Say The=20 Vessels Will Be Useful In The Persian Gulf. They Are Expected To = Be=20 Deployed In 2011.

SAN=20 DIEGO =96 To the world it might be called a robot boat, but its = proper name=20 is the Unmanned Surface Vehicle, and the U.S. Navy expects it to = be a=20 major tool in countering what officials believe is a growing = threat posed=20 by quiet diesel-powered submarines owned by rogue nations.

In=20 advance of the official roll-out today, reporters were allowed to = see the=20 boat on Thursday at Naval Base Point Loma before it took a trial = run on=20 San Diego Bay.

The=20 goal is to greatly expand the Navy's ability to detect hostile = submarines=20 by sending the unmanned boats, equipped with sonar, to probe the = nooks and=20 crannies where subs might be hiding to ambush a Navy ship or a = merchant=20 vessel.

The=20 boats will be controlled by sailors at a safe distance on a much = larger=20 ship.

The=20 Navy wants to have 32 of the unmanned boats, each packed with the=20 most-sophisticated electronic gear available.

The=20 first of the two boats, developed and stuffed with sonar-detection = gear,=20 cost $197 million.

In=20 the future, the price is slated to drop to $46 million per = boat.

Each=20 aluminum-hulled boat is 39 feet long, weighs 17,000 pounds and can = carry=20 up to 5,000 pounds of intelligence-gathering technology while = traveling up=20 to 35 knots in rough waters.

If=20 all goes as planned, the first will be deployed in 2011, possibly = to the=20 Persian Gulf, where the Iranian navy says its submarines, lurking=20 undetected, could close the Strait of Hormuz, through which = tankers=20 carrying much of the world's oil supply travel.

The=20 boats are meant to be launched by the so-called Littoral Combat = Ships,=20 shallow-draft ships that can maneuver close to shore.

"With the way = the world=20 is now, with terrorists just sitting around looking for new ideas = to=20 attack us, it's very important we have a way to protect our = sailors as=20 they transit through the shallow waters," said Thomas Mulkeen, one = of the=20 contractors working on the project, whose motto is "Detect, deter, = defeat."

San=20 Diego will be the home port for six of the Littoral Combat Ships. = The=20 Space and Naval Warfare Command Systems Center, San Diego, has = been a=20 leader in developing the submarine detection technology for the = unmanned=20 boats.

"We're still = in the early=20 stages of the concept," said Capt. Mike Good, program manager.

October = Submarines=20 Lost:

USS=20 Wahoo

SS=20 238

October=20 11, 1943

USS=20 Dorado

SS=20 248

October=20 12, 1943

USS=20 Seawolf

SS=20 197

October=20 3, 1944

USS=20 Escolar