Strike one hard working SSGN
From Submarine Group Ten:
After 42 years of silent, steadfast service, the Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Georgia (SSGN 729) returned to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay for the final time on July 27, 2026.
Commissioned during the Cold War as a strategic deterrent and later converted into a premier conventional strike platform, Georgia and her generations of Sailors have made a monumental mark on naval history. She will officially begin her inactivation process on July 31, 2026.
Bravo Zulu to the crew, and welcome home!
Note she has precious topside DDS installed, a rare feature that is actually common to SSGNs, as they can carry four platoons of SEALs (64 operators) in addition to her 154 VLS Tomahawks and a dozen torpedoes for her four tubes.
Georgia originally commissioned as SSBN 729, the fourth Trident-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, at Groton on 11 February 1984, the second ship to carry the name on the NVR after Battleship No. 15 of Great White Fleet fame.
She began her first of 65 SLBM-armed deterrent patrols in January 1985, serving an entire career by the time she was converted to an SSGN in 2004– then really started to have some fun!
I even mention SSGN-729 in my 2012 zombie novel, in the final couple of chapters.
Her motto, which she has more than lived up to, is Furtim, Incurso, Mutatio (Stealth, Attack, Change)