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Carter Slates Trip to Meet New England-Based Service Members

May 20, 2016 |DOD News
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Defense Secretary Ash Carter will travel to Connecticut and Rhode Island May 23-25 to commission cadets from Yale University’s first ROTC graduating class since the Vietnam War era and visit Navy installations in New London, Connecticut, and Newport, Rhode Island, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, director of Defense Press Operations, said in a statement issued today. 

A tug boat helps guide the Los Angeles-class submarine USS Toledo through the Thames River to Naval Submarine Base New London, Conn., following a regularly scheduled deployment, Jan. 20, 2011.The USS Toledo conducted operations in U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Central Command areas of responsibility. Defense Secretary Ash Carter will visit the submarine base during his May 23-25 visit to New England. Navy photograph by Petty Officer 1st Class Virginia K. Schaefer
A tug boat helps guide the Los Angeles-class submarine USS Toledo through the Thames River to Naval Submarine Base New London, Conn., following a regularly scheduled deployment, Jan. 20, 2011.The USS Toledo conducted operations in U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Central Command areas of responsibility. Defense Secretary Ash Carter will visit the submarine base during his May 23-25 visit to New England. Navy photograph by Petty Officer 1st Class Virginia K. Schaefer
A tug boat helps guide the Los Angeles-class submarine USS Toledo through the Thames River to Naval Submarine Base New London, Conn., following a regularly scheduled deployment, Jan. 20, 2011.The USS Toledo conducted operations in U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Central Command areas of responsibility. Defense Secretary Ash Carter will visit the submarine base during his May 23-25 visit to New England. Navy photograph by Petty Officer 1st Class Virginia K. Schaefer
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A tug boat helps guide the Los Angeles-class submarine USS Toledo through the Thames River to Naval Submarine Base New London, Conn., following a regularly scheduled deployment, Jan. 20, 2011.The USS Toledo conducted operations in U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Central Command areas of responsibility. Defense Secretary Ash Carter will visit the submarine base during his May 23-25 visit to New England. Navy photograph by Petty Officer 1st Class Virginia K. Schaefer
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In Connecticut at Yale, Carter will meet with school leaders to discuss topics including his Force of the Future initiative before delivering remarks at the first commissioning of Yale ROTC cadets since the early 1970s.

During his visit to the Electric Boat facility in Groton, Connecticut, Carter will have the opportunity to meet and thank the men and women who build Navy submarines and see several submarines in various stages of completion. At the Naval Submarine Base New London, Connecticut, he will tour an operational Virginia-class submarine and meet with the crew.

In Newport, Rhode Island, Carter will visit staff and students at the U.S. Naval War College. He will deliver remarks and take questions from the student body of mid- and senior-grade officers. He will then attend a demonstration of cutting-edge technologies being developed at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center before returning to Washington that afternoon.

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