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US Navy - Ballistic / Guided Missile Submarine SSBN / SSGN 727 - USS Michigan |
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Type,
class: Ballistic Missile Submarine, nuclear
propulsion - SSBN; Ohio class Builder: General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB), Groton, Connecticut, USA STATUS: Awarded: February 28, 1975 Laid down: April 4, 1977 Launched: April 26, 1980 Commissioned: September 11, 1982 converted to SSGN: 2004-2007 Re-commissioned SSGN 727: June 12, 2007 IN SERVICE Homeport: Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Naval Base Kitsap, Washington Namesake: State of Michigan Ships Motto: TUEBOR (I will defend) Technical Data: see: INFO > Ohio class Ballistic Missile Submarine - SSBN |
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SSGN 727 - USS Michigan  in dry-dock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF), Washington - May 29, 2025 returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Washington after a 34-month forward deployment - January 2025  arriving at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - December 6, 2024  arriving at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - December 6, 2024  Naval Base Guam - November 2, 2024  departing Naval Base Guam - November 20, 2023  departing Naval Base Guam - November 20, 2023  arriving at Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan - July 2, 2023  arriving at Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan - July 2, 2023  departing Busan, Republic of Korea - June 22, 2023  arriving in Busan, Republic of Korea - June 16, 2023  departing Naval Base Guam - March 1, 2023  off Okinawa, Japan - November 2022  off Okinawa, Japan - November 2022 July 2019 - March 2021: Major Maintenance Period (MMP) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Washington  arriving at Naval Magazine Indian Island, Washington for ammunition offload after a 30-month forward deployment to Guam - May 13, 2019  arriving at Naval Magazine Indian Island, Washington for ammunition offload after a 30-month forward deployment to Guam - May 13, 2019  Busan, Republic of Korea - October 2017  Busan, Republic of Korea - October 2017  Busan, Republic of Korea - April 2017  with dry-deck shelter mounted - Busan, Republic of Korea - April 2017  departing Bremerton, Washington - November 2016  transiting from Naval Magazine Indian Island to her homeport, Naval Base Kitsap, Washington - August 11, 2015  arriving at Naval Magazine Indian Island, Washington for ammunition offload - August 1, 2015  arriving at Naval Magazine Indian Island, Washington for ammunition offload - August 1, 2015  Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan - July 2015  Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan - July 2015  Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan - July 2015  Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan - July 2015  Busan, Republic of Korea - June 2015  off Guam - March 2015  off Guam - March 2015  Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - September 2012  Polaris Point, Guam - September 2012  Polaris Point, Guam - September 2012  Polaris Point, Guam - September 2012  Yokosuka, Japan - June 2012  Yokosuka, Japan - June 2012  arriving at Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan - June 2012  HMAS Stirling, Australia - April 2012  alongside the Submarine Tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) at Polaris Point, Guam - January 2012  alongside the Submarine Tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) at Polaris Point, Guam - January 2012  alongside the Submarine Tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) at Polaris Point, Guam - January 2012  Naval Magazine Indian Island, Washington - June 2011  Busan, Republic of Korea - April 2011  Busan, Republic of Korea - April 2011  Busan, Republic of Korea - December 2010  Yokosuka, Japan - September 2010  Busan, Republic of Korea - June 2010  SSGN conversion graphic SSBN 727 - USS Michigan  USS Michigan (SSBN 727) enters the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF) to commence engineered refueling overhaul and conversion from a fleet ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) to a guided missile submarine (SSGN) - February 2, 2004  Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF) - February 2, 2004  Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Washington - November 2002  Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Washington - May 1998  departing Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - February 1990  June 1983  April 1983  April 1983  April 1983  Magnetic Silencing Facility, Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Washington - March 1983  an UGM-96 Trident I C4 SLBM was launched fron USS Michigan (SSBN 727) - November 1982  commissioning ceremony - Groton, Connecticut - September 11, 1982  commissioning ceremony - Groton, Connecticut - September 11, 1982  commissioning ceremony - Groton, Connecticut - September 11, 1982  inclining experiments - May 1982  Aerial view of General Dynamics Electric Boat submarine construction facility, Groton, Connecticut, with USS Ohio (SSBN 726) in the launching basin, USS Michigan (SSBN 727) largely finished on the pier alongside, and the "keel" (Ring-shaped structure) of USS Georgia (SSBN 729) being "laid" between them April 7, 1979  as above |
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USS Michigan (SSBN / SSGN 727): USS Michigan (SSGN 727) is the second submarine of the Ohio-class of ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) and guided missile submarines (SSGNs), and the third U.S. Navy ship to bear the name. Michigan was launched on April 26, 1980, christened by Margaret Nedzi, the wife of Rep. Lucien Nedzi (D-Mich.), and was commissioned nearly 30 months later on Sept. 11, 1982. Capt. W.E. Rickman (Blue Crew) and Capt. F.M. Conway III (Gold Crew) were Michigan's first commanding officers. Michigan was built to carry the Navy's third generation submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), the Trident C-4. After arriving in Bangor in March 1983, Michigan would carry out her primary mission of deterrence for nearly 20 years, conducting more than 60 strategic deterrent patrols. At the conclusion of the Cold War, Michigan, Ohio and two sister ships - USS Florida (SSBN 728) and USS Georgia (SSBN 729) - were considered for decommissioning. Instead, the Navy chose to convert the Ohio-class seaframe to carry Tomahawk land attack missiles (TLAMs) or other payloads in lieu of ballistic missiles. Following more than three years of reconfiguration at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Michigan rejoined the fleet as a guided-missile submarine on June 11, 2007, following in the footsteps of Ohio. Florida and Georgia would also be converted into SSGNs in the following years. In addition to their makeovers, Michigan and Ohio began forward-deployed operations out of Polaris Point, Guam - much as their SSBN forerunners did throughout the Cold War. Similarly, the Kings Bay, Georgia based USS Florida and USS Georgia operate out of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. In their current role, Michigan and her fellow SSGNs stand ready to support U.S. operations around the world, as Florida did by launching Tomahawks during Operation Odyssey Dawn in Libya in 2011. And Michigan has continued to prove her readiness to defend the nation by capturing the prestigious Battle Efficiency Award, or Battle "E", for Submarine Squadron 19 in back-to-back years - the Blue Crew won in 2010, while the Gold Crew took home the 2011 award. source: SSGN-727 website - - - - - On 12 December 2009, Michigan returned to Naval Base Kitsap, her home base, completing her first deployment after the SSGN conversion. The deployment began 10 November 2008, and included numerous missions. The boat also completed several theater security cooperation engagements with Pacific Rim nations. On 28 June 2010, Michigan was one of three Ohio-class submarines involved in a US response to Chinese missile testing in the contested East China Sea. Michigan, Ohio, and Florida all surfaced simultaneously in the waters of South Korea, the Philippines, and the British Indian Ocean Territory respectively. In August 2016, CSC Dominique Saavedra embarked aboard Michigan and became the first enlisted female sailor to have earned her submarine qualification serving on a U.S. Navy submarine, the first boat specially modified with separate accommodations for enlisted female crew. (The first female, both officer and overall was in 2011.) On 25 April 2017, Michigan docked at Busan Naval Base, South Korea, during a time of heightened tensions with North Korea. She later joined the USS Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group in the Sea of Japan for exercises. Photographs show a dry deck shelter mounted on Michigan. Michigan returned to Busan Naval Base, South Korea on 15 June 2023, the day after North Korea fired two short-range missiles off its east coast. The visual display of the submarine - again with a mounted dry deck shelter - was done to demonstrate the US resolve to support and protect South Korea against North Korea's recent aggression. |
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Michigan ... is a peninsular state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, Indiana and Illinois to the southwest, Ohio to the southeast, and the Canadian province of Ontario to the east, northeast and north. With a population of 10.14 million and an area of 96,716 sq mi (250,490 km2), Michigan is the tenth-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by total area east of the Mississippi River. The state capital is Lansing, while its most populous city is Detroit. The Metro Detroit region in Southeast Michigan is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies. Other important metropolitan areas include Grand Rapids, Flint, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, the Tri-Cities, and Muskegon. |
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