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...twice I've stopped in Nebraska, which is about as far as you can get in this country from a U.S. Navy ship or any ocean. I was shuttling between Lincoln and Omaha last week for good reason, however. My book, "Big Red," is about the USS Nebraska Trident submarine, and much to the astonishment of my publisher, it's selling briskly in Nebraska. "Big Red" is the nickname of the USS Nebraska, which the sub adopted from the nickname for the University of Nebraska football team. Anything with "Big Red" printed on it sells well in the Cornhusker State...
...bond between Nebraska and the Trident named after it is one of the strongest any state has with a warship. Climb down into the USS Nebraska and you find it's filled with memorabilia from the state. University of Nebraska pennants and posters are tacked up everywhere. Glass cases display footballs from championship games the school has won. In the crew's mess hangs a wooden sign with "Cornhusker Cafe" carved on it. When a young crewman earns his dolphins pin, which he gets after serving an apprenticeship on the sub, he must sing the University of Nebraska fight song...
...Here, TIME congressional correspondent Douglas Waller, author of "Big Red: Three Months on Board a Trident Nuclear Submarine," (HarperCollins), offers his take on the ongoing inquiry into the USS Greeneville disaster...
...half an hour, I drove the U.S.S. Nebraska, a Trident submarine that can fire nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles. No, correct that. I sat nervously in the inboard seat, my hands gripping the steering wheel in front of me tightly. A young sailor and diving officer behind me actually drove the sub as it sailed under the Atlantic Ocean, telling me every move to make with the "stick," their nickname for the wheel. Steering a nuclear-powered submarine sounds impressive, but on the boat the job usually goes to the crew's junior seamen, some no older than...
...half an hour, I drove the U.S.S. Nebraska, a Trident submarine that can fire nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles. No, correct that. I sat nervously in the inboard seat, my hands gripping the steering wheel in front of me tightly. A young sailor and diving officer behind me actually drove the sub as it sailed under the Atlantic Ocean, telling me every move to make with the "stick," their nickname for the wheel. Steering a nuclear-powered submarine sounds impressive, but on the boat the job usually goes to the crew's junior seamen, some no older than...