A sub overview 1 il Acting Secretary of the Navy Sean O’Keefe Chief of Naval Operations ADM Frank B. KelsoII Chief of Information RADM Kendell Pease CO Navy Internal Relations Activity CAPT Jolene Keefer X0 Navy Internal Relations Activity MAGAZINE OF THE U.S. NAVY LCDR Pamela A. Moulder Director, Print Media Division DECEMBER 1992 - NUMBER 909 ENS Barbara Burfeind 70TH YEAR OF PUBLICATION A//Hands Editor Marie G. Johnston A//Hands Assistant Editor JOCS Robert C. Rucker A//Hands Staff 502 Jonathan Annis JO1 Sherri E. Bashore J02(AW) Laurie Beers JOP(SW) Jim Conner PH1 (AW) Joseph Dorey J03 Angela L. Jenkins JO1 Steve Orr Patricia Swift J02 Paul Taylor Production Director Michael David Tuffli Production Associates William E. Beamon DM1 Steven J. Eversole Leroy E. Jewel1 DM3 Keith Wilson NI RA Staff Distribution:Garland Powell, RM1 Ken Mumford; Plans and Policy: LCDR Rob Raine, J.D. 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Themovie brought a defense policy - deterrence, forward presence and crisis lot of attention to a branch of the U.S. Navy that has response,” he said. “Our plan for the 1990s and beyond is prided itself on being the “silentservice.” to hone the capabilities of our submarines to continue While the Cold War circumstances under which“Red our superlative supportof this strategy.” October” took place are now a thing of the past, our While deterrence has traditionallybeen the role of the submarine crews still patrol the oceans of the world SSBN, today‘s SSNs, with their wide range of capabili- safeguarding American interests. ties from intelligence collectionto precision land attack In days gone by, the submarine force, like the rest of with Tomahawk cruise missiles, are a formidable the U.S. military, was geared to meet a global threat weapon that anywould-be aggressor must take into from the nuclear-armed Soviet Union. However, as consideration. East-West tensions ease and the Defense Department’s “A potential adversary will be uncertain about the budget declines, the submarineforce has had to change numberand location of Americansubmarines,” said its emphasis. Bacon, “but will be certain that a submarine can deny According to Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for him use of the seas or conduct precision strikes against Undersea Warfare VADM Roger Bacon, the mission of him inany region.’’ the strategic arm of the submarine force - deterrence - Any sailor who has ever deployed aboard a ship can remains essentially the same. However, the number of tell you there’s nothing new about the idea of forward fleet ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) will be sub- presence. However, as our forces at overseas locations stantially reduced. are withdrawn, the forward presence of naval forces “We have 34SSBNs, we will go down to 18 by the end takes on added importance. According to Bacon, effec- of the decade,” Bacon said in an interview published in the newsletter“Inside the Navy.” VADM Bacon is interviewed in frontUSS of Grayling (SSN 646) by CBS News correspondent JimStewart moments afterthe Speaking at a ceremony marking the return of USS sub broke through the polar ice. Tennessee (SSBN 734) from her 3,000th strategic deter- rent patrol, Chairman of the JointChiefs of Staff Army Gen. Colin Powell said that despite the warming of U.S. relations withthe East, there are still thousands of nuclear warheads in Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and Kazakhstan which could end the American way of life in a matter of minutes. “So, however warm our relations mightgrow with the new former-Soviet republics, however close our friend- ships become- we will always, always place our faith in our boomers,” Powell said, “and not in anythingelse.” On the tactical side of the house, however, the crews of attack submarines (SSNs) areseeing a major changein the emphasis of submarine operations.