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10K Milestone Achieved!

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A major on-going project at Cold War Boats is the gathering of records and documents that allow us to honor each and every shipmate that served on boats during the Cold War from 1946 to 1991 by adding their names to our Master Personnel Roster.

Yesterday, with the addition of the 112 shipmates from the inactivation crew of the USS ANDREW JACKSON (SSBB 619), Cold War Boats surpassed our first milestone of 10,000 names with a total of 10,016.

These names represent those who served in submarines over the 45 years of the Cold War. Some of those are currently registered, many of them are listed as missing, meaning we have no contact information for them, and many more have crossed the bar and are listed as on Eternal Patrol. 

All are honored in the ranks of those who served.

So we set out for our next milestone, 20,000, a daunting task, but only a drop in the bucket of the estimated 400,000 names we expect to find.

If you want to make sure you are included, or to see who is currently listed on the commands you served on, visit coldwarboats.org. You must register and log in to see names other than those on Eternal Patrol.

If you would like to help in this endeavor by:

  • locating and acquiring Personnel Diaries, commissioning, inactivation, and decommissioning brochures, and other documents, or
  • Researching missing shipmates to discover contact information, or obituaries, or
  • Participating in data entry for a specific boat, or
  • Submitting other information that might add names to the roster,

Then contact me, Brad Williamson, at , or our Sailing List Manager, Jim Hart, at . 

Regardless, if you aren’t currently registered at coldwarboats.org, then get there and make it so.

There is not a moment to lose!

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