The Navy will certainly call its 2 most recent Virginia- course (SSN 774) fast-attack nuclear submarines after the American heroes of the Greatest Generation that died in the previous USS Oklahoma (BB-37) and also USS Arizona (BB-39), bringing those solemn names back right into active-duty solution after greater than three-quarters of a century.

Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly declared his choice to call the following 2 submarines, SSN-802 and also SSN-803, specifically, onDec 23.

“I am honored and humbled to name the next two Virginia-class nuclear fast-attack submarines to be built as the USS Oklahoma (SSN-802) and the USS Arizona (SSN-803),” Modly claimed.

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“It is my fondest desire that the residents of the terrific states of Arizona and also Oklahoma will certainly comprehend and also commemorate our Navy’s need to hallow the 1,177 heroes that died in USS Arizona (BB-39) and also the 429 even more in USS Oklahoma (BB-37) in Pearl Harbor, onDec 7, 1941.

“Truly, there is no greater honor I can think of for the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the nation than to build and commission into active service two state-of-the-art American warships carrying the spirit of those heroes of the Greatest Generation, as well as that of their families and the Grand Canyon and Sooner states as they sail through a new American maritime century,” Modly claimed.

Generations have actually seen the Pearl Harbor National Memorial in Oahu, Hawaii, making up the USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma and also USS Utah memorials, along with 6 police officer cottages, 3 mooring quays, and also thePearl Harbor Visitor Center The memorial honors the background of World War II in the Pacific from the occasions bring about theDec 7, 1941, strike to tranquility and also settlement, and also honors the hundreds of Americans that offered and also passed away that day.

Virginia- course fast-attack submarines offer the Navy with the abilities needed to preserve the country’s undersea superiority well right into the 21st century. They have actually boosted stealth, innovative monitoring abilities and also unique war improvements that will certainly allow them to satisfy the Navy’s multi-mission demands.

Reference: navy.mil