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Submarine Officer
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Submarine Warfare fulfills an integral
role for the U.S. Navy. Submarines provide the United States with a nuclear
arsenal, protect carrier battlegroups from surface and subsurface threats,
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Submarine officers will be assigned to
either an attack submarine (SSN) or a ballistic missile submarine (SSBN).
Nuclear-trained officers fill most officer assignments on all nuclear
submarines-- including engineering, weapons, operations and navigation
duties. In addition to their qualification in nuclear propulsion, all
submarine officers become submarine warfare specialists with the ultimate
goal of commanding a nuclear submarine. The strategic mission of the
sophisticated SSBNs is to help deter nuclear war. They are on constant
patrol around the world armed with long-range nuclear missiles. |
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Attack submarines are smaller than
ballistic missile submarines and do not, as a rule, stay at sea as long. The
mission of these fast and silent SSNs include attacking enemy ships-- both
surface and submarine and in supporting land-based campaigns. |
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