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...located. But 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...
...Navy is under fire for having 16 civilians aboard the USS Greeneville, a Navy fast-attack submarine, when it collided with a Japanese fishing trawler on Feb. 9, killing nine aboard the trawler. A Naval inquiry into the accident is probing whether civilians aboard for a day cruise may have been a distraction to crew members that contributed to the accident. The three admirals who conducted the inquiry are now considering what kind of legal proceeding should be taken against the Greeneville's skipper, Cdr. Scott Waddle. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, meanwhile, is mulling whether he should clamp down...
...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...
...Thompson: In recent years, top officers have been taking less individual responsibility for disasters on their watch - with the USS Cole, for example, or when the Marines hit the ski gondola in Italy - but this may force the services to take another look at culpability. At this point, we know that Commander Waddle's Navy career is over, along with those of several of his subordinates. The only question now is whether they'll face court-martial proceedings. We'll have to keep watching to find out - it's too early to say just...