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Old 04-03-2008, 08:56 AM   #173 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers View Post
Only the boomers launched from the late 80s on. Before that, they had to goto Cuba to be effective.
They were also fairly noisy too.

Boomers as SSBNs. They're called that in US Navy slang because they fire things that go "boom".
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