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Thomas Courtien

Posted 2007-10-01 6:10 AM (#7926)

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Location: Patterson, New York

Subject: USS Emory Land leaves the Med

US quits Sardinia nuclear submarine base leaving skeleton staff
16 hours ago

ROME (AFP) — The US Navy has all but ended its presence at a nuclear submarine base in Sardinia with the departure of support vessel USS Emory Land with 1,500 sailors aboard, press reports said Sunday.

Some 400 sailors will remain at La Maddalena naval base until the end of February, when it will be fully shut down after 35 years, to the relief of pacifists and environmentalists but to the chagrin of some of the 200 workers it employed.

"We will miss you" read a banner as the Emory Land pulled out of the harbour on Saturday.

At the same time, Sardinia Governor Renato Soru asked: "What kind of people are we if we need a military force and nuclear submarines to create a job?"

La Maddalena, located within a pristine wildlife and marine reserve, was the source of controversy notably after two incidents involving nuclear-powered submarines based there.

The USS Oklahoma City collided with a commercial Norwegian vessel in the western Mediterranean in 2002, and the USS Hartford ran aground while on manoeuvres in La Maddalena harbour in 2003.

The following year, a French research institute CRIIAD found exceedingly high levels of the radioactive element thorium, used as a nuclear power source, in seaweed samples.

Riding a wave of public anxiety over the base, Soru was elected in a landslide in 2004 on the slogan "The Americans are our friends, but in future we'd like to welcome them here as tourists."

In 2005, the regional health department found higher than usual levels of cancer in the area.

The base was set up at the height of the Cold War, in 1972, under a secret agreement between Rome and Washington.

Bob Melley

Posted 2007-10-01 6:56 AM (#7927 - in reply to #7926)

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Posts: 256

Subject: RE: USS Emory Land leaves the Med

Interesting comments from French Research Institute.......the USA has had nukes based here longer than any other country on earth.... has any US research institute found any of the same element "traces" at any US base? Understand, I'd never
doubt any French scientists discover about a US base....just wondering?????
tincanman

Bob Melley

Posted 2007-10-02 12:24 PM (#7953 - in reply to #7926)

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Posts: 256

Subject: RE: USS Emory Land leaves the Med

Her sister ship is based at Guam, right????? In theory Guam will have four SSNs, MUCH closer to the action.
Under new US Navy submarine realignment program 60% of the Navy's SSNs will be based in Pacific....(right?)
Seems like we're expecting trouble from the PLAN and all those new Russkie boats Putin is bragging about building......
Since the end of the Cold War, Russia sold eight (good) Project 636 Kilos to China....has built a few new quiet DE boats,
the Gephard, a newer Akula class attack boat and put more older SSNs & SSBNs out to pasture......
BUT, the PLAN has been building new DE boats and has 2 new Project 093 SSNs and one SSBN, a Project 094 boat.
Their new nukes will replace the four old Han Project 091 SSNs and the one Kia Project 092 boomer. Neverthjeless,
it was a Project 039 DE boat, that surfaced 5 nm away from Kitty Hawk........Hope we're cranking up the ASW fleet training FAST.......

tincanman

Bob Melley

Posted 2007-10-05 7:16 AM (#8021 - in reply to #7926)

Old Salt

Posts: 256

Subject: RE: USS Emory Land leaves the Med

Update on USS Emory Land.....saw on Eric's site a new piece that USS Emory Land will get a yard availability then will be transfered to MSTS......or whatever its called now .....will be manned civilian crew....

tincanman

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