Word: seawolf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter was picked for the nuclear submarine program by Admiral Hyman Rickover, who later assigned him to the prelaunch crew of the submarine Seawolf. "Rickover transformed my life," says Carter. "He was unbelievably hard-working and competent, and he demanded total dedication from his subordinates." Today, Carter's aides consider him just as much of a taskmaster as Rickover; the two men often meet...
...Georgia Southwestern College to Georgia Tech and then in 1943 to the U.S. Naval Academy. After serving five years on battleships and conventional submarines, he was selected by one of his heroes, Admiral Hyman Rickover, to join the nuclear-submarine program. He was the prelaunch skipper of the submarine Seawolf, but when his father died in 1953, he left the Navy to help his family...