The Virginia-class submarine USS Minnesota arrived at HMAS Stirling, Australia on Feb. 25 for the first of several SSN routine port visits to Australia set to occur this year.
This visit is also the first of two planned U.S. submarine (SSN) visits to that base in 2025. The visits are part of increasing experience and training to ramp up to establish Submarine Rotational Force-West there. The visits also prepare Australia to domestically support and field Virginia-class submarines in the 2030s and later SSN-AUKUS boats in the 2040s.
The next SSN visit is set to be a three-week submarine maintenance period.
A version of this story was first published by Exchange Monitor affiliate Defense Daily.
NEW: Via public records request, I’ve been able to confirm reporting today that a warrant has been issued for DOE deputy asst. secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition Sam Brinton for another luggage theft, this time at Las Vegas’s Harry Reid airport. (cc: @EMPublications)
DOE spent fuel lead Brinton accused of second luggage theft.
by @BenjaminSWeiss, confirming today's reports with warrant from Las Vegas Metro PD.
Waste has been Emplaced! 🚮
We have finally begun emplacing defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of #WIPP.
Read more about the waste emplacement here: https://wipp.energy.gov/wipp_news_20221123-2.asp
Editorial: Sam Brinton’s credibility is now an issue 🔓