Crew members on board the US Navy Attack Submarine USS POGY (SSN 647) sport "Blue-Noses" after returning from Operation SCIENTIFIC EXERCISE '96. The Pogy and her crew spent 50 days underneath the Arctic ice cap during a 93-day planned deployment. The "ORDER OF THE BLUE NOSE" is a tradition among submariners who have pasted underneath and surfaced up though the Arctic ice cap
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: SCIENTIFIC EXERCISE '96
Base: Naval Air Station, San Diego
State: California (CA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PO2 Felix Garza
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
26/11/1996
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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