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Scranton Returns From Six-month Deployment

Navy NewsStand

Story Number: NNS050928-04
Release Date: 9/28/2005 9:21:00 AM

By Chief Journalist (SW/AW) Mark O. Piggott, Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet Public Affairs

NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Scranton (SSN 756) returned to Norfolk Naval Station Sept. 27, after a six-month deployment.

Scranton deployed in March as part of the USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG). The crew demonstrated the great flexibility of fast-attack submarines, participating in two major joint exercises - “Caya Green”, a bilateral U.S./Israel exercise and “Inspired Siren” with the Pakistani Navy.

“There are submarines all over the world, and any time we have the opportunity to exercise with surface and submarine forces, it’s part of team coalition building,” said Cmdr. Michael J. Quinn, Scranton’s commanding officer.

With stealth, persistence, agility and firepower, fast-attack submarines like Scranton are multimission-capable, able to deploy and support special forces operations, disrupt and destroy an adversary’s military and economic operations at sea, provide early strike from close proximity, and ensure undersea superiority.

For Quinn, the training and preparation leading up to the deployment paid off for the crew of Scranton.

“I could not have asked for anything better,” said Quinn. “The teamwork, all the training that goes into getting ready [for a deployment], it all comes down to execution, and the crew performed flawlessly.”

Commissioned in January 1991, Scranton is 360 feet long, displaces 6,900 tons, and can travel in excess of 25 knots. The submarine is named after the city of Scranton, Pa., located in the Lackawanna River Valley.