ALBANY, Ga. (WTVM) - Former President Jimmy Carter - who lived to be 100 and was laid to rest this week - served in the Navy, a military branch that named a submarine after him to honor that service.

In October, I announced that the future Virginia-class submarine (SSN-813) will be named USS Atlanta during a ceremony at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum. His legacy lives on through ...

Fort Drum, N.Y.: On Sunday, December 29, 2024, former President James Earl “Jimmy ... Carter returned to New London to board the newly constructed, first-of-its-kind USS K-1 submarine.

As part of a National Day of Mourning in honor of President Jimmy Carter, the Naval Submarine Base in New London conducted a 21-gun salute on Thursday. “We are very proud to use our facility to ...

The Carters would return to Groton on June 5, 2004, to christen the USS Jimmy Carter, the final Seawolf-class submarine. Their daughter, Amy, looked on as the president paid tribute to his wife.

President Jimmy Carter's casket was placed Tuesday in the Capitol Rotunda, where he will lie in state until Thursday's funeral service.

The Navy commissioned a nuclear-powered submarine in 2005, naming it the USS Jimmy Carter. He was elected to the Georgia State Senate in 1962 and was a little-known Georgia governor when he began ...

USS Jimmy Carter Executive Officer Lt. Cmdr. Jacob Cates said “This crew and all former crews of the submarine USS Jimmy Carter (SSN 23) have maintained a special relationship with President ...