USS Birmingham (SSN-695) Ship's Crest Mug

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USS Birmingham (SSN-695) Ship's Crest MugNamed for Birmingham, Alabama the iron and steel city whose industrial might helped fuel American strength USS Birmingham (SSN 695) was a Los Angeles class fast attack submarine commissioned December 16, 1978. Running deep and silent through the world's oceans during the Cold War's most critical decades, Birmingham tracked Soviet submarines, gathered vital intelligence, and held the line in a contest waged in darkness far from any headline.

a decorated Navy chaplain who served aboard submarines in World War II

First the Iran crisis that dominated the news cycle

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Named for the Battle of Hué City — one of the most intense urban battles of the Tet Offensive in 1968

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In the summer of 1982

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Her 1966–67 Western Pacific deployment continued her combat service in the Vietnam War

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where the Cold War was playing out in real time

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