My friend Kurt recently attended his submarine’s deactivation ceremony. The USS Minneapolis-St. Paul (SSN-708) was deactivated last month after two decades of service to the country. Seems like a short life for such a capable vessel. It made me wonder why we would scrap her.
Today I found an article describing USS Minneapolis-St. Paul’s likely fate: the scrapping process for nuclear submarines and ships. After decomissioning in September, she’ll be cut into sections, with most metal being recycled. The reactor’s final resting place will be the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state.
With the Navy scrapping perfectly good Spruance-class destroyers and nuclear subs, what does that leave? Are the remaining ships really all that?
That’s a good question….are they tryin’ to save some dough for other projects? Or, is the need for these types of vessels not part of their current strategic plan…
I’d like to think they know what they’re doing but as my Dad used to say “There’s the right way and then there’s the military way!” 🙂
They are using Haliburton which is subcontracting the work to the Red Chineese Army?