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The USS Missouri is officially a United States Navy Ship. Hour-long ceremonies at the Naval Submarine Base New London (CT) have transferred the ship from being PCU 780 (Pre Commissioning Unit) to being SSN780, the USS Missouri.
You can watch a recording of the full ceremony by clicking on the USS Missouri tag on the upper right corner of this web page.
Five of the 140 crew members of the new USS Missouri are from the boat’s namesake state. Fire Control Technician Ryan Thruston is one of those five. He’s been in the Navy since graduating from high school in Jefferson City eight years ago and deciding to get outside Missouri and “try something different.” [Read more...]
He has spent a good part of the last twenty years under water…and he’s looking forward to more months beneath the waves. Commander Timothy Rexrode is a career submariner whose first boat was built in the 60s. Now he’s in charge of the Navy’s newest attack submarine. He says it’s an exciting career because it has a long history, deals with high technology, is a unique service that requires elite teams to perform at their peaks. [Read more...]
He helped fire the 16-inch guns on the battleship Missouri. Today, he’s on his way today to Connecticut to help put the new USS Missouri into service
He’ll be 84 on August 7th. Harry Weiss’s memories of his two years on the USS Missouri battleship during the Korean War remain vivid—especially his work as an engineer in one of the 16-inch gun turrets…and the day one of guns fired a two-ton shell that traveled 23 miles and landed right on the mouth of a tunnel Chinese troops were using to move into North Korea. [Read more...]
Some veterans of the Battleship Missouri are planning a unique gift for the new USS Missouri when it is commissioned Saturday.
The United States Navy accepts its newest Virginia-class submarine Saturday, Some of those attending will be men who served on the Battleship Missouri in World War Two, the Korean War, and the first Gulf War. One is Charlie Guthrie of Slater, who spent most of 1991 on the battleship, leaving just a few months before the ship was decommissioned. [Read more...]
