Contributed by former submarine sailor John Alagna, who enlisted in 1969 and served aboard SSBN-class ships — the Navy's ballistic missile submarines, known as "boomers." This 1968 recruiting brochure titled Polaris, Missiles and Men describes the Polaris fleet ballistic missile program, the men who crewed the submarines, and the U.S. Navy's nuclear deterrence mission during the Cold War.
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