Rep. Courtney Celebrates the Naming of the Future USS GROTON (SSBN 828)
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower Subcommittee, issued the following statement after Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that the next Columbia class submarine will be named the USS GROTON after Groton, Connecticut. The USS GROTON, a future ballistic missile submarine, is scheduled for delivery in 2032.
“Today’s decision by the US Navy to honor Groton, Connecticut as the name of its next submarine is welcome news. Groton is the birthplace of the modern nuclear-powered Navy under Admiral Hyman G. Rickover and home to our nation’s oldest submarine base, as well as the Electric Boat shipyard whose talented shipbuilders have played a leading role since World War II where they constructed 74 submarines to fight the Axis powers. The naming of the third Columbia class submarine as the future USS GROTON is a well-deserved badge of honor that rightly acknowledges our community’s historic role in the United States submarine force,” said Courtney.
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