The first course was taught at Trident Training Facility Bangor in June 1978. It houses five colleges and the elementary school outreach program Starbase Atlantis. It oversees training of seven surface ship crews from Bremerton and Everett, and 22 flight squadrons from Whidbey Island. The facility supports more than submarines. “If there’s a job on the boat, we have some sort of trainer for them,” said TTF spokesman Lt. The facility is furnished with $400 million worth of “the best and most reliable training equipment in the Navy,” Prince said, providing sailors with gear they’d find on the submarines or computer simulators. “What sets us apart now is our ability to adapt to new submarine classes that have come here with different skill sets.” “This organization has had a history of excellence,” Prince said.
It supports 23 crews across the three sub classes, with 177 military and 26 civilians teaching 165 courses. Trident Training Facility Bangor had to develop training for the two new platforms, and it is the only center that accommodates all three classes. Since then, two of them were converted to cruise missiles - SSGNs - and three Seawolf fast attack subs (SSNs) moved in. When Prince took over in July 2006, the ballistic missile subs - SSBNs - were the only ones homeported here. “Strategic deterrence is our military’s most important mission, and we need to execute it flawlessly,” said Prince, who is moving across the plaza to become Submarine Group Nine’s chief of staff. When they’re not on the boat, they’re at the training facility. The Blue and Gold crews swap off every 90 days. The facility’s bread and butter remains training crews of Bangor’s eight Trident ballistic missile submarines. “It has a day-to-day impact on all of our submarines out of the Pacific Northwest.” “It’s one of the true jewels of the Naval Education and Training Command,” Caldwell said during a change-of-command ceremony at Deterrent Park in the shadow of the facility. James Caldwell, commander of Submarine Group Nine and Friday’s guest speaker. In 2005, 20, it earned the Chief of Naval Education and Training Excellence Award as the Navy’s top training site, and would’ve made it four straight years in 2008 had the Navy not wanted to give somebody else a chance, said Rear Adm. The 450,000-square-foot, 10-winged building houses the largest, most diverse, and successful submarine training center in the nation. Daniel Prince as commander of Trident Training Facility Bangor, where more than 50,000 sailors trained last year. China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin warned in a press conference on Tuesday that the three countries are walking “further and further down the path of error and danger.Leadership changed hands Tuesday at one of the Northwest’s most prolific learning centers.Ĭapt. Beijing has criticised the move, saying AUKUS is encouraging an arms race. The plan to bolster Australia’s naval defence comes amidst Western nations’ mounting anxiety over China’s plans for the Indo-Pacific region.
Nuclear-powered submarines do not necessarily mean nuclear-armed, but also those fuelled by a nuclear reactor rather than by diesel-electric propulsion. Russia has under half the number of nuclear-powered submarines, and China roughly half again. The Guardian reports that under the new so-called AUKUS partnership, the UK too could see a considerable increase in its deep sea vessels, almost doubling to a reported 19.ĭata from the International Institute for Strategic Studies shows that the US has by far the largest nuclear-powered fleet worldwide. The US has said it will sell Australia three US Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines in the early 2030s, with the option to purchase an additional two. Australia is to become the seventh country in the world to introduce nuclear-powered submarines to its naval fleet, as part of a newly brokered deal between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia (AUKUS), reports Statista.
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