The Thresher incident remains one of the most tragic days in the Navy’s history as 129 sailors and crew perished.
The USS Scorpion, a nuclear-powered U.S. Navy submarine, mysteriously sank on May 22, 1968, killing all 99 crew members.
retired Cold War submariner and president of the USS Thresher Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Foundation. The Thresher disaster was a “come to Jesus moment” for the Navy, Galeaz said in ...