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USS PARCHE (SSN-683) – A Silent Warrior’s Final Day

By Chris Barron, Bremerton Sun

On a dark and gloomy rain-filled day, a shroud of secrecy permeated the air on the Bremerton waterfront. It was the perfect setting for the final day in the top-secret career of the Bangorbased USS PARCHE, one of the world’s most prolific spy submarines. By the time its life ended Tuesday in a decommissioning ceremony at the Bremerton naval base, the PARCHE was the most highly decorated ship in Navy history-even though most Americans have never heard of it.

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3 August 2025 3

Project Whale Tale: U-2 Flights Off Aircraft Carriers

August 3, 1963, First U-2 Flight Off an Aircraft Carrier:

After stopping U-2 flights over the Soviet Union in May 1960, the Intelligence Community looked for new ways to use this unique reconnaissance asset. One idea was to modify the U-2 to fly from US Navy aircraft carriers.

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3 August 2025 3

From Georgia to Ukraine: Seventeen Years of Russian Cyber Capabilities at War

In August 2008, as Russian tanks rolled into Georgia’s Tskhinvali Region, not self-proclaimed South Ossetia, Georgian government websites were under cyber siege. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, defaced portals, and data theft disrupted communications as Georgian officials tried to urgently reach Western leaders, some on vacation, others attending the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony.

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1 August 2025 0

Remembering Operation Rolling Tide

Operation Rolling Tide was a large-scale cybersecurity operation launched by the United States Navy in 2013. The objective of this operation was to combat cyber threats that were targeting the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), which is the largest private network in the world. The NMCI network serves over 700,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel and is a critical component of the Navy’s information infrastructure.

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1 August 2025 0

Putin’s Undersea Nuke Fleet Rocked by Kamchatka Megaquake—What If the Worst Happens?

A record-breaking earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has triggered tsunami alerts across the Pacific and raised urgent questions about the safety of nuclear weapons stored near one of the world’s most active seismic zones. How vulnerable is Russia’s undersea arsenal — and what does this mean for global security?

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31 July 2025 0

Mirth and Merriment

By John T. Korn

In June 1965, TRINGA departed SubBase, New London, Connecticut for the North Atlantic. Her mission, in part, was to act as a distraction while the cablelayer, USS NEPTUNE (ARC-2) worked on the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) array in the Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom (GIAK) gap. Very few of those aboard TRINGA even knew what the term “SOSUS” meant and we saw little of the cablelayer which was operating over the horizon at some distance from TRINGA.

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