Local veterans witness history in the making
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Once again a United States warship bears the name of the Show Me State, the USS Missouri (SSN-780), a 337-foot Virginia class submarine commissioned Saturday in New London, Conn. It is the fifth ship to bear that name and the first submarine to do so. It is the seventh Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine to be commissioned into the Navy and is commanded by Commander T.A. Rexrode.